Posts made by Ghost

"At Disney World, at any given time, there is one person in a Mickey, Goofy, Minnie (etc) suit that is equiped with a 9mm pistol. Just in case."

"The pieces of skin around Morgan Freeman's eyes are not skin tags. Long ago, Morgan Freeman and Seal got into a fight, and Morgan Freeman grafted the torn skin to his face, which he now wears proudly as a trophy."

@Wretched said in Game: Fake Urban Legends:

Fair Warning: I may steal some of these wholesale for game plots some day.

Jakob Dylan darkling headlight killer sounds amazing.

"What's that noise?"
HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
"Didnt you do a milquetoast Bowie cover?"
GM: Roll for initiative.

Hahaha love those.

"The Japanese flag does not depict the rising sun. It is actually a pie graph showing how much of Japan is Japanese stuff"

@Wretched said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

@Ghost I'd happily dance on the graves of many people in history. I am okay with the title of Grave dancer.

And I ain't judging, either. This is a personal decision. BobG just raised a philosophical point I think is sound and the punk rock in me wanted to give a nod of solidarity.

@BobGoblin said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

So to clarify, you hate him because of his lack of 'humanity' so you shall express your hatred by ... showing a lack of humanity at his death. Logical.

While I am not a fan of Koch and look forward to a future without him personally affecting politics, BobG has a pretty solid Vulcan/Buddhist point, here. If you dance on the grave of "bad men", you are still a grave-dancer.

Again, not a fan of Koch at all, but philosophically who is worse? The man with the money or the corrupted politicians who got quid-pro-quo with him?

@Misadventure said in Cyberrun:

@Ghost Misleading? Did you not watch Blade Runner? They are emotionally children. The memories are "cushions", the bodies artificial. They have restraint, true, but little maturity at all. The actress was 22? The players people are concerned about are very likely as old or older, so maybe not the best measurement?

That's (that they were emotionally children) up to interpretation. For starters, they didn't qualify as a human, nor did they qualify as children in the same sense as a born human from gestation to MaidenMotherCrone stage. Blade Runner wasn't about the mistreatment of children; it was about the creation of artificial beings who longed to be free. Their models were four years old, but they were not modeled (nor did they behave) as four year old children. They were not depicted as, played by, or designed to be sexualized children.

This is entirely a different subject and non-concept to human adults roleplaying as children for TS roleplay.

Age is a number. Yes. Maturity is subjective. Yes. There are, in existence, 16 year olds with more responsibility and rational thinking than their own parents.

I think a good question to ask here is: "Why is it so important to play a legal minor on a sex-based RP game, and not an immature legal adult; perhaps even a teen 18-19?"

I'll take the bold step here (trigger warning) and say that its important to remember that the so-called adrenaline kick from the crime of paedophilia has nothing to do with driving across the state line of "18" to thumb your nose at societal laws regarding age. No. It's about the focusing of sexual energy towards a figure perceived to be a child or child-like. It's ultimately about the sexualizing and violation of perceived innocence while being well aware that it is wrong.

So, even if a character is an 85 year old man in the shell of a 12 year old body, a sexual scene involving this configuration is providing an outlet for paedophilia on the part of the 85/12 year old, and roleplaying of a sex crime on the part of that character getting hot on the human-appearing shell of a 12 year old.

It's paedophilia. Role-playing this online and enjoying it doesn't not make one a paedophile just because they (allegedly) havent done it in real life. Paedophilia doesn't make exceptions between "fantasizing of" or "physically partaking in".

I think you're obscuring the overall point, but I think you're definitely driving in a specific direction. What exactly are you trying to play Devil's Advocate towards, here? That there is bias in play and that it's no big deal that adults would simulate sexualized children because there is a pre-existing precedent in film?

I'm currently discussing whether or not it's okay for people to roleplay fucking 12 year old appearing characters on online RPG spaces. Can someone explain to me A) why this is even being debated and B) help me justify the 5-10 minutes it took me to write this?

One more:

If one of your headlights goes out, it's because Jakob Dylan from the Wallflowers snuck into your garage and broke your headlight to keep his song 'One Headlight' relevant.

He is the Santa Claus of automotive problems.

(Another creative/fun type thread to kill time.)

MAKE UP YOUR OWN URBAN LEGENDS! THE FUNNIER THE BETTER.
(Also: please try to keep this relatively clean and relaxed. Try to avoid hardcore politics and snarky. Insults of people in the hobby, genders, races, etc)

I'll start.

Traffic cones were designed to look like witch hats to use Pavlovian methods to steer people clear of Wicca.

@Misadventure said in Cyberrun:

And why doesn't Pris skeeve people? She's a 4 year old in an adult body, slated to be a sex worker.

Misleading.

Pris was a artificial being with an adult personality and an adult appearance that was designed to be a pleasure model that came off of the assembly line four years ago.

The human growth and development process and concept of having to evolve from child to adult never applied to Pris.

When Blade Runner released, Daryl Hannah was 22.

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

@Ghost said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

@Ghost said in RL things I love:

Also,"The Signal Fire" by Killswitch Engage features vocals by both Jesse and Howard Jones. Watch the video.

what even is this video format

OMFG DONT BE A 16:9 LETTERBOX HIPSTER.

I feel like it's made for those people who wear sunglasses 24/7 and look at everything over the top of them.
'You only see half the world so here's half a video'

I'm gonna tell KSE and try to get them to wear a "FUCK YOU, AUSPICE" tee in their next video and then sell it as a tour shirt.

Dont know them. Dont know how to talk to them. Dont know anyone else who knows them. But omfgrrggmbldang imma do it.

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

@Ghost said in RL things I love:

Also,"The Signal Fire" by Killswitch Engage features vocals by both Jesse and Howard Jones. Watch the video.

what even is this video format

OMFG DONT BE A 16:9 LETTERBOX HIPSTER.

King Diamond is putting out a new album and going on tour. YAAAAY.

or shall I say? "eeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Also,"The Signal Fire" by Killswitch Engage features vocals by both Jesse and Howard Jones. Watch the video. That fistbump, yo.

Marvel/Disney could very easily forget Spider-Man and focus on other teen heroes they own. @TheOnceler is right. I don't see them spending millions on one character when they just gained access to hundreds they didn't have before.

Harley - Iron Lad
Hawkeyes Daughter - Hawkeye
Cassie Lang - Stature
Sufi
Kamala
TeenGroot
SkrullKid from Captain Marvel - Hulkling
Wiccan and Speed - Easily done.

In fact, theyve already laid a lot of that groundwork

Boom. Young Avengers.

I also don't see Sony parting with millions in revenue from a functional movie empire when it's now popular again.

I think the big question is: Is Tom Holland contracted through Marvel/Disney or Sony? I have a feeling Holland was getting his paycheck from Sony, which means HollandParker is still possible.

Sony could very easily continue Spider-Verse, make Gwen or Milea live action, and put HardyVenom against Holland and they'll be fine. Marvel punched up their product for them.

Not to dig too deeply into this, but I always find it weird that shaming becomes a topic when people mention discomfort with adults role-playing minors in sexual situations. So I'll say this:

1. Yes, teens hook up. Regardless of teen sexuality it is still both illegal and unethical for adults to retroactively cross that 18 line, so the desire to RP as or with a PC who is a minor in a sexual situation raises eyebrows. Always. That cross to bear is on the shoulders of the pro-minor TS RP; not the person with the raised eyebrow.

2. The game suggests a 12 year old body in a sexual situation. It's within the realm of possibility that we arent talking just about teens, but about potential simulated sex with what appears to be a pre-teen (or, for perspective, a 5th grader at an elementary school). It doesn't matter if the "soul" in the 12 year old appearing shell is that of a 45 year old man because the willingness to engage in fuckery with the imagery of a child is, IMO, fucked up.

3. The unspoken rule of life is "teens bang teens, adults bang adults". The closer you hold to this statement the less controversial said banging will be.

@Auspice Never ever ever again.

That gif is going to haunt my dreams.

Hrm. Introspective moment.

For me, I struggled with a few things. There are my opinions on the "social game" that I've mentioned in a few other posts so I won't expound here.

One thing that was always difficult for me was the concept of plotting and planning. I always wanted to plot and plan without detailing ahead of time everything I was thinking of doing because doing so always made the RP feel railroaded and overorchestrated to me. So I'd have an idea, play my cards close to my chest, and run into some OOC issue because I didn't detail it ahead of time; which I didn't because something felt non-gamey about getting "buyoff" on what my character would do or outline everything that was going to happen, thus giving other players the ability to ponder SUPER PREPARED RESPONSE to things I wanted to do. At that point it always felt like getting permission to do what my char would do, so it was a balancing act that I would probably still struggle with today.

I like being able to have surprises to unveil, and I like to be surprised. Overplanning and detailing things Oocly beforehand kills that. My characters, to me, were less of an investment and more of a replaceable element.

For me, I always viewed these games as "RPGs with some writing" rather than "cooperative writing in an RPG backdrop", which explains my preferences clearly. I always wanted an online space to play VtM/WoD/etc, but mushing isn't exactly that. Hindsight being 20/20, if I could do it again, I probably would prefer to have come to that understanding sooner rather than to pluck the chicken for 10+ years.

Not sure how I would tackle this if I played again. It's something I think about when I consider redownloading Potato.

I'm fine with underage characters being depicted as they are in Stranger Things.

By that I mean a bunch of nonsexualized tweens worrying about their first kiss and tween stuff rather than being used as sock puppets for underage TS fantasies.

I am ALL over Matrix 4 like white on rice on a paperplate in a snowstorm being eaten by Trump's cabinet.