Posts made by ILuvGrumpyCat

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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.

@coin Wait. I had patience?!?

Out of curiosity, is there any ETA on opening?

@coin

The brief period of time I lived in Chicago growing up I legit took the L to school.

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.

Because I love that damn cat.

It was fairly constant with Pyro/Wolverine. Constant. @Coin can probably attest to the fact that I'm someone that can hold my own with people like that, I can give as good as I get and am not a shrinking violet, but I even felt drowned out in the noise that was Pyro/Wolverine. I never had bad interactions with him, but he was ALWAYS running his mouth.

Honestly, not sure what it was about the game in general but I never felt comfortable in my own skin there. Maybe it was the constant noise from people like him. He wasn't the only one that would dominate things.

@Wolfs No idea. More of the same, maybe?

I feel that it should be pointed out that player was banned. Pyro/Wolverine.

I miss Rae.

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.

@Coin Seriously though. Once upon a time I'd have agreed. But these days I find that end up, 80 percent of the time, sounding just generically me in pose style. No awesome. No coolness.

As for big scenes? Ugh. I've begun to hate them with a passion, which is new. I used to love them, and ran big scenes on Reach on one of my characters all the time. Now I avoid them, which limits a lot of RP. I find them to be too many people posing too big and too fast and just empty poses with nothing to RESPOND to. Just my feelings these days.

@Coin Bite me.

I'm not sure if I'd count myself as one of the most laziest people in the world...but I used to put in so much thought to how to frame a pose, now I just...pose. Beyond simply asking myself "does this fit the voice of the character and the situation" I don't think much about it. I find my poses varying in length and complexity based on the scene type, how busy it is, and if I'm finding anything to engage in.

I wish I was good enough to make all the pose styles different on each character. But I can't.

I played Calliope on RfK.

I'd be interested. However, I don't share the same idea that foreign is bad. Look at the long stretch Haunted Memories had. It had a good sized pool of local PCs. So I wouldn't say don't consider it, although I'd be very careful of where you set it, even still.

As for RtK.....there is a lot of ooc paperwork required there, and that can be fun for some people, not always fun for others. But what I find doesn't work there more than anything else is the lack of accountability there seems to be for anyone's actions unless they make a public post. Then it just gets pulled down. So maybe just....remember to not pull down all the posts, all the time,

@Cirno said:

@spasticgoat

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.

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.