It proves how bad we are at keeping things on topic. We are that bad that we can't even keep an off topic thread on topic!
:)
I am laughing. Very good, Nikolaj.
--M. J. Young
Thank you! I should make a gold star chart or something so that I can add the compliments I get. When I'm feeling down I can look at it and be encouraged! Heh.
Is it noticeable that I work with kids at all? Lol
That all, meaning: thank you for the encouragement.
On another note:
Kyler, I'm willing to try to start you up, but will your responsibilities allow you? And I'm not sure how regular I will be able to post.
Don't mind me and my responsibilities. I've reined myself in quite nicely.
OK MJ, now I'm confused. How can you possibly derail a thread meant for random, wild topics? That's like saying you threw a rock at the ground and missed.
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Ya know Eric, you're absolutely right. People don't listen to reason. Reasoning with people is not a way to solve problems. I know a single mother of two kids. She's got a job, she supports herself, and she's about to quit her job and move in with a guy she just met. Is that a recipe for disaster or what? I try to talk her out of it. But she will tell you that she's independent, she does what she wants, and she doesn't listen to anyone else. Then she gets upset when things blow up in her face. Well, let's see, how many times did I try to tell you NOT to do exactly what you did? Oh that's right. You're independent, you do what you want, and you don't listen to anyone else.......
How can you possibly derail a thread meant for random, wild topics?
By turning the attention of the thread away from "everything that has nothing to do with the game" to a game-related subject, obviously.
That's like saying you threw a rock at the ground and missed.
We do that, or something very like it, all the time. After all, a satellite amounts to an object that we threw into the air in the hope that it would start falling and keep missing the ground--quite literally. It is falling around the planet, because it starts falling toward it and misses.
--M. J. Young
One time I threw a snowball at the ground and missed. I threw it up into the air to watch it splatter in the street, and it hit the trunk of a passing car. I missed the ground.
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Ya know MJ, all of this talk about gun crazy maniac gaming characters kind of opened my eyes to something. You knew that I was a gun crazy maniac. OF COURSE a gun crazy maniac would want to stop the Pearl Harbor bombing!!!! That would be about as natural a thought as any you could have. I'm an anomaly.
All of the evidence suggested the single worst world you could have possibly selected.
I could probably come up with worse one with a little thought.
Hmm. Yes, there could be much worse. But I will concur that all the evidence he had at the time pointed towards you liking the world. Glad you understand now.
I liked Pearl Harbor world :P
No, you like torturing players.
John once again the world does not revolve around you. I am sorry if logical consequences to your random and stupid actions, are a problem to you. The only way anyone would support your statement if it you changed to: "No you like torturing me.". That is debatable, but at least could be true. As soon as I started seeing your actions the same way as I look at an autistic person, I can laugh about your antics, knowing you don't know any better. See I'm smiling and laughing now, it always does the trick :)
Personally, I don't think Adam enjoyed torturing you.
He viewed it more as a public service.
=D
A world is what you make of it in my opinion. I'd be hard pressed to imagine a world that at least from a player perspective I wouldn't have fun. My character might be uneasy or in pain or embarrassed by some worlds, but enjoying a world is often solidly in the hands of the player.
Putting me in a heavily religious society where religion was forced upon inhabitants would be miserable for my character, but I could have a lot of fun playing it. That's about the worst a world can get for me.
How about a world where all there is is a sign that reads "under construction" and all biases are negative?
I'd try to finish the construction, or botch myself out in the process of trying.
It'd be a short world, but I don't see that being all that painful.
Okay, so we've got a -15 tech bias, natural law is suspended, a -15 psi bias, no reasonable (meaning having to do with reason) activity in the world, a -15 mag bias, no magic is possible, and a -15 bod bias, no physical or motive force.
Your best bet is to try psionics and botch. That is, if the GM deigns to as much as roll, instead of just saying "You fail" to your every action.
=P
It really is an awful, boring, terrible world.
Ok, I'll concede you could put me in a world I wouldn't like if you tried. If I can't do anything (and in this case by anything we actually mean anything) then yes I'd dislike the world.
It really is an awful, boring, terrible world.
Worst case scenario, you'd stand in one spot until you died of thirst. That's not too bad.
When I said it was the single worst world he could have sent me to, I meant that there was no other world in existence which would have given me a psychotic episode.
(Doing Therapy)
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Something else. I bet you all think I would be in favor of more nuclear weapons, right? Actually no. I'm in favor of nuclear disarmament. The current theory is MAD. Mutual Assured Destruction. Neither side will fire because they know that they will get blown off the map as well. Well, if you're not going to use them, why have them in the first place? Then you don't have to worry about it at all.
I'm an anomaly. I know that. "I'm not 'A1nut' because I'm normal....."
(Doing Therapy)
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Eh, screw it. Why do I keep insisting that I was forced to get involved? Because I WAS forced to get involved. Talking to the MP is more involved than I would have chosen to get, therefore, I was forced to get involved. I don't know why that's such a difficult concept for all of you to comprehend.
Why do I keep insisting that I was forced into the story? Because I WAS forced into the story. I was forced into the story because my character couldn't commit cold-blooded murder. Now he CAN commit cold-blooded murder. Is anyone else bothered by that, besides me?
Your own son is a clod-blooded killer. I bet you were running most if not all of the games which did that to him. You turned your own son into a killer. Doesn't that bother you at all?
(Doing Therapy)
John,
I know where you live.
You weren't forced into it, it's been covered why and as such doesn't merit revisiting.
As to the theory of MAD, mutually assured destruction is a method of preventing people who are developing nuclear weapons from using them. If disarmament happened then the next country to build nuclear weapons again would be shot into the role of a superpower pretty much over night.
As to Kyler being a cold blooded killer it's a character development, it's ok for your character to have those developments. Just don't go out and decide because your character had a development it's true of your person.
"Force my friends is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."
Lt. Jean Rasczak, Starship Troopers.
If we are using that movie for reference "Service guarantees Citizenship, since you aren't a Citizen, you get what you get :P
John,
I know where you live.
And I actually have the same weapon skills as my character. You on the other hand, don't.
You don't need a lot of skill to set someone on fire, in my opinion; just the right tools and a hearty sense of humor.
One of the best things I have going for me is that you underestimate me.
Also what Kyler has on his side, one call to the Columbus Police Department to report someone for terrorist threats, and whatever weapons and freedom you had are gone :P Never underestimate the law enforcements fear of time bombs in their midst :P
You don't need a lot of skill to set someone on fire
This is true. One of the worst mass-murders in American history was committed by a guy who bought a buck's worth of gasoline.
Also what Kyler has on his side, one call to the Columbus Police Department to report someone for terrorist threats, and whatever weapons and freedom you had are gone :P Never underestimate the law enforcements fear of time bombs in their midst :P
What terrorist threats?
Besides, don't forget who the cold-blooded killer here is; my father made me a cold-blooded killer, and have you seen how thorough he was with that game system he made?
John I see your not putting "Doing Therapy" below these posts, so here is a question do you ever wonder why the MP handcuffed you behind your back in a jeep :P
Because that's what police officers do when they arrest someone. DUH!!!!!!!!!!
Bump
*grins*
"Keep thinking that." :P
Adam, you've just proven that you are in fact a complete and utter moron. Cops handcuff people. Doesn't matter if the person was arrested for shoplifting a piece of chewing gum. They get handcuffed. Cops have been doing that since the invention of handcuffs.
If you actually think that there is a cop out there who WOULDN'T handcuff someone they arrested, then you've just proven yourself a moron.
John, once again resorting to name calling, so let me break it down for you in no uncertain terms.
1) Most people here do not like your attitude and how you treat others, and that leads them to rather not deal with you. I will go one further is that your attitude has always been this way here, and some of us don't like you at all.
2) Your lack of social graces, your inability to coexist with people civilly, and your frequent outbursts, trying to bring attention to yourself, are just examples of bad attention is better than no attention. We don't care about you enough to care one way or another. If you were to disappear from here, not many would miss you.
3) Most people here have tried to help you out, so that you can stay. You have lashed out at everyone on the board that has tried to help you. Most people are too polite to ask you to leave. Your statement to MJ saying you will leave if he asks is a hollow gesture, since everyone here knows that even if he wants you to, he will not out of decency and trying to hurt your feelings.
4) You are an angry little man, in a little apartment, smoking a lot of illegal drugs on tax payers dime. Not many have sympathy, especially since you make sure everyone here knows that you are handicapped mentally. The "Oh woe is me routine, has even the decent among us ignoring your pleas now."
5) You had your run on the board for 5+ years now, running off people due to your attitude, your harassment. Those people are back, and they are not going to take your sh*t anymore. You will not run us off due to your horrible attitude, we will also hammer back when your internet mouth is cashing checks your real life body can't cash.
For the TLDR crowd, many of us wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire to put you out.
Have a nice day :P