So I've been lurking around forever. Never done this. Many reasons why.
Current:
Arx: Nicia, Katya
Horror MU: Bravo2
Gray Harbor: Charlie, Ash, Everly, Frankie, Baylee.
Past:
The Reach: Olivia, Quinn, Eve, ect
The 100: Quinn
Spirit Lake: Quinn
There are a bunch more, but I really feel that I don't want to be here for a million years. So leaving it here.
Safer? I mean....haven't we proven the past day that nothing, even in the correct PLACE is really....safe? People have voiced dissent and upset and many other things recently in what was formerly the appropriate place, and were banned for shit that was not nearly as bad as what others have done on this forum and NOT been banned for.
There's no safe spaces.
@tiredewok I second the sentiments that maybe admin should have talked instead of banned.
Police state isn't a term I thought of, but the ideas fit. Get rid of those trying to speak up so no one's aware that the house is burning.
You sure? Pretty sure that the tattoo guy with the same PB has been on all these games....
You can find shitty, crazy ass politicians from any state if you look. Some are more vocal. As someone who lives in Texas, but isn't a native of Texas, I have to say that there are a ton worse places. In fact, I grew up in one that has at turns been the meth capital of the US, one of the last bastions of the KKK, so deep in the Bible belt that people believed someone when they claimed that you couldn't get pregnant if you were raped, and well... I'd rather be in Texas, especially in the area of Dallas I live in.
Got to agree with Chime. Texas is something different. And I can't say that it's a bad different. There are plenty worse places.
I picked up something on the game, I love the concept. Loved the idea, loved the thought that I'd always be portraying this Archetype in different settings. But I missed the first nights event, and have felt really lost and out of place since then. To the point that I haven't logged in because when I HAVE logged in I've sat in the OOC room with everyone else feeling disconnected from what everyone was talking about having done/planning to do. I WANTED to enjoy the game, and I'm stoked that people are. But I don't know...I sort of second this feeling of not having connected to the story in some real tangible way that makes me, too, feel like I'm there and part of it. Maybe having missed the first night was just the death knell for me.
Yeah. Totally agree the same PB shows up. With the same job. Same details. Same everything. On a lot of games. Just saying, dude was admin at those other games.
@Cirno said:
Dated
The unrest in Baltimore indicates otherwise.
It was relevant then; it remains relevant now. Perhaps you also think the Black Panthers were "dated", but you must admit that if brigades of heavily-armed Afro-American citizens ran overwatch missions on police forces, the monthly death-by-cop rate would halve overnight.
What I'd really like to do is start a program like that; I have my own firearms and ammunition, but nobody in my area is really interested in the drudgery of patrolling the street. It's unfortunate, really; a race of warriors reduced to indolence and passive acceptance of their fate.
I've stayed out of this for as long as I can. But after reading this I really can't help but ask if you have actually paid any attention to things? You talk about how it's a Black vs. White Cop thing, and sure, in many cases it is. But you leave out the fact that non-African-Americans have also stood hand in hand with African-Americans and protested. You leave out the fact that Black on Black crime has been an epidemic going back twenty or more years. You also blindly ignore the fact that any heavily armed vigilante style group will not HALVE the death-by-cop rate and will most likely in fact DOUBLE or TRIPLE the death-by-cop rate.
Answering violence with violence perpetuates the violence. I'm not anti-guns, I'm not even really anti-violence. But I think that there is a time where people need to stop rolling through the cycle of violence in response to violence. Protest? Hell yeah. I was raised by a hippie. I was taught protesting for your rights is a good thing, but waving a gun around and screaming to be heard and to stop the shootings seems to be the wrong way to go about things.
I remember that owl. I had a character that would talk to it, and it stuck around when she died at war. I can remember the damn OWL name....but not the character I was playing at the time.
Rping once was a joy, now there are days it just...I can't.
Working from home, virtual school for the kids, a cheating husband that bailed.
But I'm getting better? Taking what control of life I can, and focusing there.
Lots of video games, and binge watching things. I started writing again, sorta.
The brief period of time I lived in Chicago growing up I legit took the L to school.
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According to a lot of story telling and missing records and then suddenly found records, then missing....anyways. According to myth and legend from one side of my family we're all from the UK somewhere, Brittany (supposedly), and Native American by way of a great...great grandfather having an extra martial affair which is how my great-grandfather came to be adopted by my great-great-grandfathers wife and raised as her own.
Cool thing is that my grandmother's side of the family we know for a fact fought in the American Revolution, and we're related to one of the many dudes that signed the Declaration of Independence. However, this is also the side of the family that evidence is starting to point towards being Travellers...who knew, and the jury is still out there as we're trying to piece together a broken timeline of my pops' family. And this is the side we know the most about...
The other side....who knows! Scuttlebutt says German, but since we are almost 99% certain that my dad's family made up their surname or it was altered from the original we're not certain except that all people with that surname in the US are related. Then there's some Native American and French, iirc.
So beyond being blessed with dark hair and the ability to tan if I go out into the blinding sun...I'm about as pale and pasty as they come.
Maaaaan. I don't think I'd heard anyone talk about TwoMoons in decades. Brings back memories and lots of wtf was I doing moments.
I really love how you can go to the marketplace, qualify for a certain amount of help towards a premium. And then STILL be paying over a hundred bucks a month for a single person with a 6000 dollar deductible. Like....isn't it just cheaper to pay out of pocket unless something really, really, really bad happens? 'cause I'll never spend 6k a year for just going to the dr when I get the seasonal crud.
@smmc I've no idea. But I think we were all crazy back then.
@cupcake Just for curiosity, where and what did she say that was anti-semitic? Hadn't heard anything in the news.