Posts made by HelloRaptor

And this is why Bastet were always more popular than any incarnation of Werewolf.

Also not having to rely on a pack, but lots this too.

@Thenomain said:

@HelloRaptor said:

I'm about 90% sure that the compiled list would pretty much cover everything people roleplay. Everything.

This means that in HR's world, we all have at least 10% in common.

I didn't say we'd cross off 90% of stuff, thus leaving 10% behind, just that I'm only 90% sure we'd cross off 100% of everything anyone does on these games. The 10% is just my not being infallible so it's always possible SOMETHING could slip through, but I'd be shocked if it were more than 1%. 10% would require some kind of Julian May style mental harmony that will never happen.

For everybody who recoils with shock and disgust from 'rape roleplay', there are people who'd take that and its ensuing drama any day of the week over slice of life shit where nothing but soap opera scenes happen, and there's people who'd gladly have either of those rather than participate in a plot where the ST fudges dice/outcomes, so on and so forth.

Every time somebody acts like some topic should be taboo in roleplay, or like they can't understand why anyone would ever, my eyes threaten to roll out of my head. I mean, for fucks sake enough people read and loved both Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey to make them pop culture icons in both print and on screen. I may be disgusted with those responsible for both, but apparently those are things people enjoy. Does it say anything about them? Maybe. It might say a lot of things. Without knowing a person better I can't really say what outside of them having terrible taste. I feel the same way about people who encourage STs to fudge dice in their scenes.

@Anonymous said:

What is it with all this shit about rape RP? Who the fuck wants to roleplay that? I don't get it

One of these days somebody can make a thread and everybody can submit things to it to compile a list of all the types of roleplay that someone, somewhere, finds pointless/useless/offensive/unnecessary/etc.

I'm about 90% sure that the compiled list would pretty much cover everything people roleplay. Everything.

@Coin said:

@HelloRaptor I love licorice. @Eerie sends me boxes of the stuff when she's feeling generous.

I rest my case. You monster.

I posted another one of these, before I saw this thread, so I'll share another image of a snow leopard being a motherfucking ninja:

@WTFE
You are a monster for enjoying any kind of licorice.

Also, things that I love: Snow leopards, ninjas of the wild.

@VulgarKitten said:

I still live with mine while I'm finishing school. It becomes much harder to ignore when you're a dependent again.

Then stop asking rhetorical questions. You've made it perfectly clear there's no way to actually accomplish the ends you desire. Nobody has a solution to the fact that your mother will be a shit about it if you in any way express that something she's doing is bothering you.

The answer is you shut your goddamn mouth yourself and put up with her annoying behavior because it's less of a pain in the ass than opening your mouth and having to deal with her being a petty bitch.

@Shebakoby said:

lerl where's the rest of that FiM-G1 crossover?

No idea, I just pulled it off a google image search.

@TNP said:

When you google image 'my little mecha pony' there's a ton of hits.

I didn't need to know this.

I just googled 'mlp transformers', but yeah.

@surreality
You're welcome.

Wait, my bad. I think you meant something more like this:

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMrmPyo2h2w

Mouthworms!

SMOKEBOMB!

@Trundlebot said:

Also Dex-Starr is great. Dex-Starr good kitty.

I agree, but it's still an example of Power Rings Don't Have To Make Sense Ever No Not Even Then Not Ever and how anybody ever using "But then someone with a Power Ring did <insert absolutely anything>." as a reason to lose suspension of disbelief is just being an asshat. Like @Coin.

Remember that time a Green Lantern contained a supernova inside a green force bubble? Or how veteran Green Lanterns can enter and leave black holes, even having conversations while they're there?

@Ganymede

Yes. You were talking about lazy writing ruining the ability to suspend disbelief. I cited to the introduction of midi-chlorians into the Star Wars universe to explain the "unique" nature of Anakin Skywalker. It was a horrible idea, and a product of awful writing.

Leaving aside the issue of lazy writing, this gets passed around as true, but isn't. The biological component of Force use, and midi-chlorians in particular, are part of Lucas' original expanded universe notes for authors who were going to write EU stuff.

Which is to say that while Anakin being Darth Jesus, complete with virgin birth, was explained as a product of the midi-chlorians, they weren't introduced to explain his situation. That probably doesn't make it any less lazy, I guess, if one sees the entire concept as a lazy one.

In case anybody forgot about Bill Cosby, here's an awkward lulz from the Cosby Show, courtesy of Cracked Responds.

This is sort of a thing I love, because I love it, but RL Anger is really the only suitable place to post about 50 Shades of Goddamnit.

@Misadventure said:

You know, this has replaced my image of HR as this suave and sardonic city slicker into a bearded gruff survivalist. In plaid. Maybe armed. He shows up in the middle of the horror film to tell you just how fucked you are, and won't be burdened with trying to save you.

I did in fact wear a lot of plaid at one point or another, it's true, but I'm afraid I've never really been able to make a go of the 'grizzled' thing. I did once spend the better part of a year living more or less off the land around Chicken, AK (less in that we didn't do shit like make our own clothes). Sleeping in a cabin, chopping wood, hunting for food (dressing, carrying, cooking, etc), and a lot of other physical shit that I only vaguely remember. I was probably in the best shape of my life after nine months of that shit, but even then I could never pull off grizzled. Mind, I was still a teenager, but I'm pretty sure I couldn't even now.

Part of it is probably that I lack the genetic predisposition towards heavy facial hair, and you have to be extra special to pull off grizzled without a beard or pretty heavy stubble.

As for armed, sadly my wife won't let me buy a gun unless... something. There was some condition, but I forget what it was. Maybe letting her buy a snake or something. Though I guess I do have a wide array of cutting tools.

He shows up in the middle of the horror film to tell you just how fucked you are, and won't be burdened with trying to save you.

I have a process that determines whether someone is worth saving, which largely amounts to assigning values to their Smart and Pretty, and requiring that it add up to at least n. So as long as you're not dumb and ugly, I'll help you out.

@Arkandel said:

@HelloRaptor said:

I don't believe I've ever cuddled with someone who wasn't already a close friend or family, or suffering hypothermia.

Exactly how many people suffering from hypothermia have you cuddled with?

More than one, less than a dozen? I grew up in central Alaska, and used to pretty routinely take trips much further north. Most of the state is a fucking frozen wasteland, and unexpected shit happens there as much as it does anywhere else, except there it almost always reaches the point of "...and then they started freezing to death."

Survive your car running off road into a river? Probably going to freeze to death.

Out camping and get lost? Probably going to freeze to death.

Vehicle breaks down/runs out of gas a hundred miles from anywhere warm? Probably going to freeze to death.

So on and so forth. When you add 'teenage stupidity' to the mix, the number of times it comes up isn't really all that surprising.

@Coin

You're still a dork for getting hung up on him talking at the speed of light while being okay with him, say, having a physical body while successfully traveling at the speed of light.

If you were going to suspend belief over anything in Doom, it should be that Scarecrow's fear toxin, however modified, would effect Hal Jordan to begin with as even when they're not 'suited up' the power rings have a passive effect of scanning for and removing toxins and foreign pathogens from their host's body unless actively instructed not to (like when they want to get drunk).

@Coin said:

@HelloRaptor Yeah, well, this was particularly stupid and you should shut up, jerkfase. XD

A comic where a cat is a Red Lantern is clearly the head space to show discerning taste.

Not an alien cat. Not a cat hyper evolved by alien technology.

A stray cat. From earth. Who was being abused, and thus has enough rage to be a Red Lantern. Behold: Dex-Starr!

But that talking at light speed thing, yeah I can see how that's the deal breaker.

@Coin

Hal Jordan is actually speaking while flying at the speed of light to f--you know what, fuck it, at that point I was like "this is a shit movie, did the writers even? DID THEY EVEN?"

I'm pretty sure you deserve to be laughed at for having your suspension of disbelief broken by a power ring doing absolutely anything in DC. Power rings of all types routinely violate so many basic laws of physics and basic sense that doing so might as well be the description of their powers.

Here's a picture of Hal Jordan using his power ring to create a harness for Superman to pull the Earth around like a bus at a Strongman competition. So I guess the absolutely anything part applies to Superman as well. Pretty sure Batman doesn't have a gadget in his belt for that one. >_>

@Arkandel
That was hilarious. I laughed so hard when I saw that two people one keyboard thing on the show.

Generally speaking I'm tech savvy enough to get most of the shit they do wrong on shows like NCIS, CSI, Bones, etc, I just don't care because... so what? I know @Coin brought up the image-hacking thing in Bones (which is at least based on a real thing, and more wildly improbable than impossible), but that's a show where they actively have a fully functional holographic image tank, and then some. And had it a while ago. I don't watch the shows for their scientific acumen, so getting ruffled when it's less than accurate seems like a waste of time.