Brovo

Mentality behind having hold/control over someone else?

I wouldn't say it's control at all so much as it's a dominance play. There's a certain thrill to hunting that which cannot be had, to "win" is bred into the mind. Everything is better when you win it. Everything. Including sexual gratification.

There's also the fact that people you talk to are people you have a shot at with, even if it's miniscule. That celebrity on the Internet isn't coming to your house anytime soon, and fantasy can only fill in so much for the real thing.

Suicide, Tragic or Selfish?

O.o

You know, I -also- stated that if a person wishes to die, and it's not from some emotional outburst but that they sincerely don't see the point to life, that it would be selfish to tell them that they're not allowed because it would hurt you right?

But no seriously it is absolutely child abuse (and clinically insane) to deny someone who is mentally unstable their medication, whether that be to treat suicidal depression or otherwise. This is the equivalent to telling someone who is in a wheelchair that they're not allowed access to their wheelchair. Of course they'll want to die--that's the one thing that lets them live.

On the other hand, I honestly think that if someone is recorded as to wish death upon themselves, for a prolonged period of time, and it's not from some emotional outburst (ex: teenage angst) but a serious desire to die... Let them go. Not everyone who is born wishes to live. That's just how life works.

The Library

Valeric said
Welcome back Brovo. I thought we had lost you.

For a while, but I found my way back.

The Library

I'm baaaack.

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Rendezvous Crash

"Poor, lost, soul..."
"Where am I?"
"Don't you recognize this place my dear?... Why, it's your own mind."
"I don't... See anything."
"Of course you don't. You don't have the flare or imagination for it, scientist... Hah! There is no curiosity in you, no wish to pursue knowledge, yet you self-label yourself a scientist."
"Jester... I don't have time for this. I'm on--"
"A mission? Yes, I know, one where you were knocked unconscious by a bottle. Thrown by some... Low life miscreant who ultimately means nothing."
"..."
"Ah. So you recognize your own weakness. I could... Give you another chance. Wake you up, but, you have to be the one that chooses to move forward. I could, of course, also leave you unconscious, leave you to die... Isn't that what you want?"
"No... I want to live..."
"Then at least try to live this time, my dear... You're so much more entertaining that way."

Bishop snaps to her senses, taking a deep breath and exhaling slowly. For the entirety of the mission she had been running on autopilot, not thinking, not able to escape the drudgery of her own emotions, the swirling whirlwind of pain and sorrow. Whether this strength would last or not was debatable. She looks around, seeing the dark alleyway she was in before wincing in pain and reaching to her head. Was that silk?... A bandage? She looks to Vologhn, and manages a slight smile. The wound was certainly not a lethal one, yet he had treated it anyway. How kind. "I won't." She whispers resolutely upon being told not to fall unconscious. Jester floated nearby Andre. "He took your hat." Her eyes followed her hat flying through the air until it landed in the hands of the... Muppets, was it? Strange slang.

The plan for this situation was simple. One look at the loud mouthed member of the 'muppets' was all that it took this time to have Jester zip away from Andre and dive headfirst into the wretched little man. "I have had a very bad day... Why don't you just walk away, and we'll forget this even happened." Assuming it worked, Jester would play the weakling, look at the hat and immediately act terrified and try to convince the others to flee. If not, well... It's not like they had a chance against them, though she wished to avoid bloodshed as she pulled the combat knife out of her boot, just in case.

Either way, she had a mission to do, and allies to keep safe.

I can't be the only one with this problem....

Nydie said
Recently, one of my favorite roleplays that had been going on since before the original RPG went down, was dropped without a word. (Insert every cuss word imaginable here!) Since then my motivation for all of my other roleplays has been slowly diminishing. I've tried finding other roleplays to fill the void of the dropped one, and I've taken a few days off hoping I would get inspired again, but each time I try to reply to the few roleplays that I have going on, I get nothing at all. It's not writer's block, because I did manage to come up with some stuff, but all my ideas seem to be for the roleplay that was dropped.

My question is, what does everyone else do to get a roleplay out of their system? I considered creating another roleplay with the characters I created for the original roleplay, but that doesn't seem quite right since my partner's characters are directly involved with the development of some of them. I even thought about writing up something killing off the main character to kind of put an end to it, but I'm rather attached to her. Anyone have any suggestions?

Avoid role playing like the black plague. It's kind of like a really good book: After I read one, I will invariable be disappointed with every other book I read until I take a brief respite. Same goes for video games and movies and so on. If some particular thing is stuck in my mind and it's ruining the entire hobby I will avoid the hobby and stop thinking about that thing by pursuing other hobbies and things for a while.

You don't stop thinking about a role play by role playing even more. I think that's the definition of Stockholm Syndrome.

Extra-Curricular: Outside the Guild

I use Steam and Skype to coordinate posts all the time.

Your Political Ideology

TheEvanCat said
Changed my mind. I'm a warlord now. Welfare is replaced with free AK47s and .50 caliber machine guns on the back of Toyota Hilux trucks.

I support my new communist kitty overlord for a free AK47 and .50 calibre machine gun on the back of a Toyota Hilux.

Do they come in Ferret size?

Your Political Ideology

Yes, some of the questions were loaded, it was likely written by one person who tried to be as neutral as is possible but has their own beliefs which influence how they interpret things.

I think businesses are good overall in the grand scheme of things because they generate products, help inspire the advancement of technology, and help establish order and a paradigm. Order is required to advance peacefully and have some sense of place and purpose without having to fight for it. I also think the power of business should be curbed, there should be overall rules and codes of conduct that governments enforce to prevent the inevitable... Because from how I see it a business has one purpose: Shareholder value. Everything beyond this is secondary, and expecting a corporation to give more than that is just a fantasy, because if the shareholders are unhappy, the company is about to be in a world of hurt.

Businesses also do what a government simply cannot: Provide freedom of choice to people in where they wish to work and how they wish to go about it. In a Marxist society I would be assigned a role based on my aptitudes, logical, but cold. In a free market I have the choice to be whoever or whatever I wish to be, even if I'm not particularly skilled at it I may enjoy it more than whatever preassigned destiny the Marxist society would give me.

As well, since I have a strong belief in individual rights and freedoms, to say that businesses should be punished simply for the sake of being businesses is punishing everyone who works within those businesses and everyone who wants to start a business. A guy who wants to start a coffee shop may genuinely just enjoy making coffee and interacting with customers: There's no reason to punish him for doing that because some bigger corporations were pants on head retarded in how they operated themselves.

I think we should start moving into a more socialist state as technology makes it not only possible, but simply logical. When automation is fully ready to take over for the majority of the work force, allow it, and do something to make sure that work force has decent lives. Cut out welfare and simply write everyone a cheque who makes less than X amount per year, charging taxes on the corporations that are no longer paying workers but instead are using automation to get things done. People who want to be rich and who work hard for it can still be rich, small coffee shop owners can evade the punishment by simply not making enough to be worth taxing, and people who want to pursue arts or higher education so they can get a job, and other such things, can do so with the safety of knowing that they'll be covered. *Shrugs*

Because once the majority of the work force no longer needs to work, we'll be for the first time in a position where only those who wish to work, will work, and those who do, will generate more currency than those who don't, and have a greater say over the free market about what gets produced.

We'll for the first time have a truly democratic representation of the economy that doesn't punish the rich for being rich or the poor for being poor.

... Till that happens though, I'm all for a free market with corporations, so long as the government holds them accountable when they do fuck up and do stupid shit. Otherwise? Let them do their thing. Ever since capitalism and industrialism the amount of shit we make has spiked to an insane degree. I can go out and buy food whenever I want. All kinds of food. I can buy a fucking feast for less than sixty bucks if I want to. TV's, movies, video games, entertainment galore, bars, cars--it's absolutely mind numbing the amount of shit I can buy and most of it is kept at a low enough price that I can afford it. Why the hell would I want to tell the system that made it possible to fuck off? Sure it's not perfect, it needs a few tweaks, and I think once technology has advanced to the point that automation can take over for the majority of it that we could shift gears into socialism while keeping some free market ideals and do just fine... But for now? I'm okay with the system, so long as checks and balances are in place to leave everyone on an equal playing field.

RP Discussion/Game: "1000 GM Sins"

46) The GM is constantly using scapegoats for their failures.

47) The GM is drunk.

48) The GM is high.

49) The GM is dead.

50) The GM decides to troll their players... In the IC.