Posts made by insomniac7809

@egg said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:

(By the way, I am also a working adult with an alleged life, just like everyone else in the hobby.)

A lot of us weren't, back when we started. That did make things easier.

So to give a slightly more expanded answer than my previous comment:

I do have some characters I'll reuse wholecloth between games. Sometimes in the sense that there's "still story to tell" and I feel like I missed on something I wanted to do. But sometimes (one in particular) because I really like playing the character, I feel like they can fit in a lot of places, and... well... I wanna.

I'll usually gloss over a lot of their backstory if I port them from one game to another; maybe keep some broad strokes the same, but nothing that would nail things down enough that it would clash with the new established setting. (I don't often do the whole 'fresh off the farm'/'Embraced last week'/whatever thing anyway, so most of my PCs have presumably had adventures in their backstory that don't really need to be defined unless it's somehow relevant to current RP.)

hey nonny nonny spoilers A bear there was, a bear, a bear!
All black and brown, and covered with hair.
The bear! The bear!

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@Derp said in Game of Thrones:

@Rinel said in Game of Thrones:

lodestar

Yeah, you're a lawyer. Lawyers are the only people I see ever use thos word.

Billings Montana number one author hard bud and all-around buckaroo featured it prominently in one of his works.

(Love is real.)

I do it if I feel like it.

Fite me.

@Testament said in Game of Thrones:

@insomniac7809

Right there with you.

I still can't decide if I hate all the main characters or like them. For all my hand-wringing on it, it's as if one day Joe Abercrombie decided 'hey, what if I wrote a book series about really horrible people with only the slightest hint of likability'

Except Three-Trees. He's the best.

There was an AMA where someone asked Abercrombie "why are all of your characters horrible people with no redeeming features?" He answered "I think of my characters as horrible people with many redeeming features."

i just want a First Law adaptation is that so much to ask

Is this a spoiler? What is spoilers? Who is time?

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Dude. When the store manager is out of the store, that means you ask the assistant manager (me) if you want to leave early, skip your mandated break, w/e. It does not mean you text her on her day off and then tell me you have her permission.

@Ghost said in Game of Thrones:

I wanna see Cersei and Danaerys fight.

And by that I don't mean "dragon vs mountain", I mean Cersei vs Danaerys in a fuck you too, bitch showdown where two characters who are about as martially proficient as Gilly the Wildling choke the fuck out of each other.

@Arkandel said in Game of Thrones:

@Ghost said in Game of Thrones:

Man, I am such a Lena Headey fan. She's really brought out the character and is the perfect Cersei.

Watch Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Man, I miss that show.

Or be the sixth person to see her knock it out of the fucking park in Dredd.

@Arkandel Nice.

@Arkandel Your second one doesn't show for me? And when I try to follow the image link it tells me I need to sign in.

Okay so I did have some issues with the episode. One of which being, frankly, a ninety-minute battle scene starts to drag, and I don't think cutting some of the slo-mo and a few of the "<CHAR> IS MOBBED BY ZOMBIES they're okay now" scenes would have hurt the experience.
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@TNP said in RL Anger:

Wearing a yarmulke is a sign of respect to those who do. If one attends an Orthodox wedding, for instance, yarmulkes are in a box by the door of the synagogue for those who don't normally wear one. I don't see having Trump in one as a dog whistle, merely a sign of Netanyahu's influence over him and no more significant than if it were Putin and he was wearing a cossack's hat.

The yarmulke is a sign of respect to the Jewish faith, not to the nation of Israel.

Even Netanyahu isn't wearing a yarmulke in the given image. Criticizing the President for being lead around by Israel is one thing. Making part of the criticism a connection with Judaism in general makes pushes the image into antisemitic territory.

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@insomniac7809 said in RL Anger:

ETA: Having seen the cartoon in question: Bibi as a guide dog and Trump as a blind idiot would have been one thing. Putting a blue Star of David around Bibi's collar could maybe, maybe, maybe get benefit of the doubt as a symbol of Israel specifically. Putting Trump in a yarmulke, though? Yeah, that's a big ol' dog whistle, the Times was right to retract it and was right to apologize for it.

I'm pretty sure the KKK would have something to say about their Good Ol' Boy with a yarmulke on.

Some of Trump's Very Fine supporters at Charlottesville had Opinions about Ivanka being married to Kushner.

But antisemitism isn't a failing unique to the right wing.

Discussing Israel is a fucking minefield.

A great deal of anti-Semitic rhetoric is couched as criticism of Israel.

Even when it is not intended as anti-Semitic rhetoric, a great deal of criticism of Israel either uses talking points taken from anti-Semitic rhetoric that was couched as criticism of Israel, or unintentionally sounds a great deal like anti-Semitic rhetoric. (There's not as much daylight as we might like between "Israel exerts disproportionate influence on US policy" and "we are living under a ZOG").

This is compounded by both anti-Semites and certain pro-Israel groups being motivated to cast any aspirations against the state of Israel as anti-Semitic.

ETA: Having seen the cartoon in question: Bibi as a guide dog and Trump as a blind idiot would have been one thing. Putting a blue Star of David around Bibi's collar could maybe, maybe, maybe get benefit of the doubt as a symbol of Israel specifically. Putting Trump in a yarmulke, though? Yeah, that's a big ol' dog whistle, the Times was right to retract it and was right to apologize for it.

Here's one of the best/worst coping strategies:

Have a big, important, long-term project.

See, if I need to do the dishes (ferex), I'll putz around on message boards and stream TV and put it off.

But when there was a term paper I needed to be writing, well, I'll get to it... but man those dishes need washing, I'll get to the research as soon as I'm done.

Doesn't help with the big stuff, but otherwise, it keeps me super productive!

Guessing JCVD for both.

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"Once you go in, you always come out alive."

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@Auspice Going the other way. JCVD

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Gotta be Smith.

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