@Kestrel said in MU Things I Love:
I know a lot of people look down on this aspect of RP and feel ashamed of it.
Really?
At least for me being someone I'm not, doing things I can't, with people I can't, in situations I'll never be in... is the entire point of RP.
@Derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Maybe there is something wrong with me
I'm sure that there's a great accounting somewhere. I'm pretty cool with that, really.
If there's a great accounting, there's a great accountant. And I am so not looking forward to that boring as hell meeting.
@GreenFlashlight said in RL things I love:
Was there an expectation that unmarried women should have an intact hymen?
Depends on time, place, caste...
Though in Chalcedonian Europe it certainly was an expectation that unmarried women would have not had intercourse. I don't recall whether or not they associated that with the hymen. Which isn't an accurate association, for the record.
The idea of putting a penis in a hole with teeth in it is totally foreign and not at all normal or acceptable.
@Aria said in RL things I love:
".....How do you think your father got your mother pregnant with you after your brother was born?"
You ask how, his mother's clearly asking why.
@Aria said in RL things I love:
He was under the impression that vaginas will "hold the shape" of the last thing in them
Well. That would make certain prosecutions a whole lot easier.
@Aria said in RL things I love:
Like, how much better would it be if we just started telling 15 year old boys in health class that if you try to force yourself on a girl, her vagina teeth might clamp down and bite your dick off?
@Kestrel said in RL things I love:
@Ganymede said in RL things I love:
As far as I can tell, being filthy and horny is great and the sort of thing that a hippie like Jesus'd enjoy.
Why were he and his mother both virgins, then?
(Allegedly.)
No. No.
Theology goes in its own corner.
@Kestrel said in Getting into Writing:
I mean. Are they, though?
I use the same tools to put up a shelf that I use to build my computer. Building a computer is not the same thing as putting up a shelf, even though they fall into the same vague category.
Are there similar elements in both the writing of novels and the writing of poses? Yes, of course. But I still believe that they are different enough in their nature that the distinction is important. The main one being that a player is generally not in control of anything other than their character and perhaps the small sphere of influence around them.
RP is still a literary exercise, I'll agree, but it is certainly not the same as writing a novel. A player is the actor, not the playwright.
@Kestrel said in RL things I love:
Men's imaginations make for a wonderful source of inspiration.
Well, at least it isn't our hubris this time.
@Kestrel said in Getting into Writing:
For example, @Pyrephox thinks if you want to write properly you shouldn't also MU*.
I would definitely say, though, that if you want to write properly don't try to "write properly" on a MU*. Writing a novel and RPing are totally different animals. The fact that they're different-but-similar enough is probably why it's helpful as a creativity unblocker. You can be creative without it feeling like "still writing your novel."
@Kestrel said in Getting into Writing:
Do you think creativity can be taught
It cannot, but that isn't to say that creativity cannot be learned. The main goal with any "using and understanding language" course is not to teach people how to use and understand language, really. It's teaching how to learn how to do it. It may sound like splitting hairs, but I entirely disagree.
I'm sure everyone can recall an English class in which one has been instructed to tear apart a supposedly great novel line by line with the intellectual equivalent of a scalpel. The idea behind that isn't to teach how to understand that book, but to teach how one can learn to approach and understand nearly any creative work.
One cannot be taught to be creative, but one can be taught how to learn what their creativity is. I believe every human being is capable of being creative, but almost no one is capable of being creative at all things or in all ways.
Though I would also argue that RP is less "creative writing" than it is improv and acting that just happens to be written down.
@GreenFlashlight said in RL things I love:
hese dudes think that jamming cotton rods into my bleeding, bloated, cramping body is such a pleasure
You're giving them far too much credit if you think they know what you do with them.
It's much like writing a book. You write a book so that it is read and enjoyed - end of purpose. But to that end you also, unconsciously perhaps, want that book to be good and appealing enough to be picked over others. So there is competition for resources, but one isn't really being competitive outside of just writing a good book.
@Ganymede said in The Game Game:
I see what you're getting at, but I disagree with the implications of what you are presenting as universal truths.
I need to keep a copy of this for any time @Ghost posts anything else.
I don't believe that competition is the right word, at least not in the way it's generally used. They should be in "competition" for things like... being interesting, or good places to go to, etc. Some faux-competition to keep them trying their best to be better doesn't sound like such a bad idea to me.
They're not directly competing for a slice of the community, we can play on multiple games just fine - though we would be more inclined to spend more of our time at a place that strives to be interesting, supported by sound policies, and the like.
@Arkandel said in The Work Thread:
What I want is make sure the wrong thing isn't said without realizing.
It's going to happen. Deal with it when it does and move on. Don't make a big deal about it.
@Arkandel The only thing I can add to the above responses is of a disciplinary note. Those intentionally and/or repeatedly not complying with the new hire's gender identity wishes need to be actively punished. This is the same as any other kind of bullying or workplace harassment, and needs to be clamped down on immediately.
