Native-American Genocide Day, everyone.


Its not verreh nice to steal a country from its first inhabitants, you know.




But its okay, you have shoes and last names.

Well, as I've been predicting for the past few months, the BT machine breathed its last breath sometime this morning. It won't boot at all. Bow thinks the video card's fan died and it's overheating/dead. It doesn't really matter because the machine is almost 7 years old. It needed to be replaced and this is the excuse I was waiting for to get it done.

Now thanks to the suggestions you guys gave me a couple of weeks ago, I've got some stuff on a newegg wishlist. I shall link these items now! Because honestly, I'm really worried I got a bunch of expensive crap that isn't compatable. I've decided to make this my new work machine, so I need good stuff (plus writeoff!) I picked some of these brands specifically because I'm pretty brand loyal. All my machines have Asus motherboards in them, for example, and they've been great to me for years and years.

1. Windows 7 Pro 64bit

2. CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W ATX12V 2.2 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply

3. AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 140W Quad-Core Processor

4. ASUS Crosshair III Formula AM3 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard

5. 2 x Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory

6. SAMSUNG 2494SW Glossy Black 24" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor

Already have the case, dvd/cd drive, hard drives (though might buy more, right?) And I've already got the video card for it. I think all I'm missing is a CPU cooler, but I'm not sure what I should get for that. I need to know what will fit in the case really.

You're lovely and all, one of the nicest people I've met through roleplaying, but it kind of amazes me how right after I sort of made it clear that my character wouldn't be into something long term with your character or anyone else for that matter, you've stopped replying to our thread, but have been replying non-stop to the thread with the character yours is supposed to hook up with. I get you wanting a romantic relationship for your kid (even though it seems like it's the ONLY thing you want for any of your characters, but to each his own I suppose), but come on. It's just kind of douchey to simply stop replying to what's not important for that plot, isn't it? At least tell me you're not feeling the scene anymore, I'd be okay with that. But not even that much? It's a bit shit.

Seriously, I don't mind playing second fiddle to another person's hero story. Honestly, I don't. Sometimes it's fun just to be a sidekick and to see where another person is going.

But if you're going to do that, you at least need to make room for those sidekicks in your story. It can't be all The Baddest Badass Ever show, it has to be The Baddest Badass Ever and Friends. And even that gets tiring after awhile. Although in your case, it's more that you keep rambling about these elaborate plans you have and how it's going to be the best storyline ever only for things to be rather... predictable and boring.

Similarly, please learn to take a joke OOC. We all make snide comments about each other's characters, because it's a funny way to highlight their weaknesses. Your badass dude isn't the greatest at social situations - c'mon, his Charisma is, what, 3? - so of course we're going to joke about him being not-so-charming. One joke is not cause to flip out, especially when we are clearly joking about the character. An hour-long bout of peevishness and obvious grudginess today because you "took it personally" because your characters are "part of yourself" is not called for.

And seriously? All of our characters are, what, level 2? I realize that play-by-post and game mechanics don't mesh too well, but we already agreed (since this is a Fallout-based game) that no characters are Vault Dweller badasses who can just come in and tear shit up. We're all Wastelanders, which means that sure, our characters might get powerful, but that'll be at level 20, not at level 2. I can swallow unrealistic shit like ~*yellow eyes*~ which make your character ~*so mysterious*~ (because hey, I'm not exactly playing the most realistic character ever with my lolferalchild guy - the fact that he can even somewhat participate in society is totally unrealistic)... but come on, the level system's there for a reason.

P.S. To another person: if you want to hear whispered conversations from 2 rooms away perfectly clearly, perhaps consider not having a Perception stat of 2.

In lieu of an actual update, enjoy the finest cultural product of our...um...culture.

Look. It's very well and good that you have some grasp on psychology. That's grand. It's a useful subject. But your character cannot.

Why? Well, in the setting, in the country he was born in, no one has the slightest clue what it is. Insanity is put down to things like possession, clones, duplicates, impostors, mind-control poisons, and that sort of thing. Considering as all of these things actually do happen in this setting, our medics understandably haven't bothered with developing it too much since it works out to be a physical cause anyway. And because they have no concept of it.

None. At all.

So your character, he is not going to wander off to another country and run back with notepapers exclaiming that he found the secret of insanity and establish the branch entirely on his own for several reasons.

1) It would require a great deal of proof, for starters, for anyone born and raised in your character's country to even accept that there could be medical causes, since medicine is physical damage as far as they're concerned.
2) He would have to actually care enough to ask about something he already thinks he knows.
3) He would have to be able to care and figure out enough to explain the concept to his countrymen. Who also wouldn't be too willing to listen, or care, because again, they think they know already.

Now I'm not saying it can't happen eventually (that's what we have medical research potential for, after all), just for the love of god, don't come back with Psych 101 in a book overnight. And if you do, expect them to call your character nuts.

( Dear prospective players )

(tl;dr: Please: (1) Acknowledge the plot even if you don't try to advance it, (2) have your characters to something (anything!) and (3) interact with each other.)

You accommodating hopeful GM and friend.

You. Yes, you, the dickhead in the dressing room.

Yes, I get that this isn't a formal game, and that it's pretty much free range. I also get that your character is a sadistic bastard who's in the mood to drain and/or kill whoever he comes across. I gave you free range to do whatever you wanted to my character except kill him. You seemed fine with that.

So why the hell did I go to reply to our thread and find that you'd deleted the entire thing?! And not the entire post, just our thread. If you were getting bored, you could have told me or even just dropped the thing. But that was my writing you deleted too, which pushes you straight into dickhead status.

Growls and hisses,
Me

If you are running a tabletop RPG, an hour or two before the game is NOT the appropriate time to fall asleep. The GM for the two games I'm playing now has done this more than once.

Also relevant to the same group of people: If your girlfriend/boyfriend is not going to play seriously, don't bring him/her to the session. We played an In Nomine oneshot on Friday, and the GM's girlfriend likes to play psychopaths. Within the first 2 minutes, she got the party attacked because she was shooting random NPCs. GM kicked her out of the game, and she spent the rest of the night being bored and whining. I'm afraid our sessions are in trouble with this group. The games have gotten too big, and there are several people who are either loud and hog the GM's attention or play stupid characters that wreck the scenario and get the party in trouble. This is the reason I'm starting to hate "crossover" White Wolf campaigns. We were playing Inquisitor and had (at various times) 3 Changelings, 2 Geists, and one werewolf. We also had Changelings in previous Vampire sessions, and one guy got kicked out for trying to play a character who was secretly a demon. There are 3 couples involved in the RP group, and two of them really need to leave the PDA at home.

Bonus gripe: My roommates and a few friends have started a D&D campaign, and although they know I play, did not invite me for some reason. Two of them even asked "Don't you have your own games to play?"

Dear you,

I know that outside of the internet and some very geeky Anime circles this title is unknown. It hasn't even been licensed into English... But given the fact that almost the ENTIRE SERIES has been translated (very nicely and thoroughly) by fans, could you at least WATCH OR READ the series before you decide to RP a fairly influential character?

-Me

PS: To two other people: I don't really care if your characters are France or Canada, PLEASE DON'T POST IN FRENCH. Two years of high school French does not make you fluent. Not only does this never happen in canon, but I also like to understand your posts.

I've never been to Korea. Or China. I've watched a few subbed movies from them, mainly martial artsy movies. So, by no means am I an expert on either of their languages.

However, I'm pretty sure that they don't use 'chan' or 'sama' when addressing people in either English or their native tongue. Just because you argue with me for half an hour on that point, then decide to end it with 'well they do if they feel like it' doesn't really make it make any better.

In short: Not all Asian languages use Japanese sentence structure or suffixes.

Dear self,

Unf, baby, you're amazing. You're so sexy. Never stop rockin'.

Love,
Ricky Wheels

PS: Those other RPers wish they were you, baby.

PPS: call me

Dear self.

Okay, so you were not rejected from the roleplay.

But you were almost.

And you know why?

BECAUSE YOU FORGOT AN IMPORTANT DETAIL.

You should've smacked yourself for this crap.

Signed
The Dutchess

Self,

I don't care if you were getting into the fight and were enjoying the quick posts, there is no excuse for not describing the setting. Particularly when your posts were only a couple of lines. Eleven posts and the most the bar got described was "They served nice enough drinks, even if they didn't have much selection, and the other patrons mostly ignored her for the most part?" Fail.

-hiratsu

You used to be one of my closest friends. You were like an elder sister to this lost lad, and we were friends and roleplaying companions for years. It was great. All good things must come to an end, though, and eventually, I suppose I didn't entertain you enough anymore, and you lost interest in me in favor of finding new roleplaying friends on a different game. That was cool, I was used to having this happen; people go their own separate ways and all, and the character of yours whose father I roleplayed wasn't getting as much attention anymore anyway. I still liked you and didn't mind conversation even if we never roleplayed anymore. You used me a lot, but that was okay. Friends don't mind doing friends favors. Or so it should have been.



EDIT: Edited out guild name, woopsies.
EDIT: Also edited some wording before this silly flame war gone does explodes this corner of the internets! If it hasn't already, it's oft hard to tell with these things. I've also learned commas, durrrrrr.

Dear oh-so-powerful officer,

Yes, I know, you don't like my humour. I know because you've told me so already, after I dared writing one -admittedly unfunny, even to my standards- sentence in guild chat.

I happen to like childish/weird/Monty Pythonesque jokes *at times* ('cause spam is bad, mmmkay?), I find that they can make a sometimes tense, stuff-obsessed atmosphere (I swear, you'd think people will die if they don't get their special piece of armour within the next hour) better. Bonus: they aren't insulting or offensive.

Threatening to ban me in /whisp, complete with ad hominem attacks, is all well and good because, you know, I really wouldn't want to be part of a group who'd find that kind of stuff ban-worthy, when you have no problem at all with someone making very (to me, at least) offensive comparisons between the in-game race of dwarves and the IRL condition known as dwarfism, among other niceties.

Also, I don't see how you being a teacher IRL makes any difference; it /will/ make me laugh harder when the sentence you write to complain about people's grammar and spelling in gchat has three grammar/spelling mistakes in it, though.

FYI, I have screencaps should your fellow officers need them to judge my unforgivable offence to your precious, powerful, "I am the guild leader's cousin's girlfriend and it's written in my officer note" self.

Amused no-love,

Me.

I've been looking for an excuse to get into AU. So I started looking into the X-men themed roleplays. In my search I found a forum that was beautiful. The setting was marvelous and well thought out; the design was beautiful, and the world was just inviting.

So why am I talking about it here?

Well, I got into the rules. First off you had to app with a real life picture. Well that's not so odd! I mean it's creepy using a real life model for your character, but it's not that bad.

No, why I'm posting about it here is two little things I found after I got through the rules. First: The post limit. 350 words. 350 words A POST. That is a short essay. That would mean that in a standard session you'd be a part of the way there for a NANOWRIMO novel. That squirked me, but I enjoy a challenge so I went on to Character registration.

In reviewing a random character I found this comment made by the admin, and I quote. "This App is good. However, you're apping for a pakistani character and using an obviously middle-area located asian model for your character pic. Please remedy this or your app will be void."

Folks, post lengths and sources for Avatars are one thing but there is a point when you cross the line into OVERLY F*ING ANAL LAND. This is it.

Still looking for a home to play my AU movie version of Stark. D: I don't know if it'll happen.