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6 yrs ago
Current 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
6 yrs ago
I say the words that I wish someone would tell me in vain hope that they might be returned to me.
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6 yrs ago
Existence continues.
6 yrs ago
So much I want to do, so little time...
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6 yrs ago
“I’ve met some pricks in my time. But you, sir...” He said to the offending cactus.
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“NO ADMITTANCE.
NOT EVEN TO AUTHORISED PERSONNEL.
YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE.
GO AWAY.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless


NOTICE


Thank you for Noticing This Notice.


Your Noting it has been Noted.


And it has been Reported to the proper Authority.


Hello lurker/ My old friend/ I've come to talk to you again/ Because a shadow softly creeping/ Lurking in the chat while I was sleeping/ And the roleplay that was forming in my brain/ Still remains with the sound of lurking.

In dead roleplays I walked alone/ Narrow pathways of casual zone...

Need mor ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

(Made in collaboration with @hatakekuro)




It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

--Douglass Adams




All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.

Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.

And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.

Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth.

And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.

The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.

Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.


~~As You Like It, Shakespear


"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."


~~ Macbeth, Shakespear





“All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.”




“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”




“What do you know?”

“Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.”

“What do you want, then?”

“What I can’t have.” Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. “Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.”




"Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty. They sat atop the world’s highest cliff, overlooking the land and seeing nothing.

'Can beauty be taken from a man?' the first asked the second.

'It was taken from me,' the second replied. 'For I cannot remember it.' This man was blinded in a childhood accident. 'I pray to the God Beyond each night to restore my sight, so that I can find beauty again.'

'Is beauty something one must see then?' the first asked.

'Of course. That is it’s nature. How can you appreciate a work of art without seeing it?'

'I can hear a work of music,' the first said.

'Very well, you can hear some kinds of beauty - but you cannot know full beauty without sight. You can know only a small portion of beauty.'

'A sculpture,' the first said. 'Can I not feel its curves and slopes, the touch of the chisel that transformed common rock into uncommon wonder?'

'I suppose,' said the second, 'that you can know the beauty of a sculpture.'

'And what of the beauty of food? Is it not a work of art when a chef crafts a masterpiece to delight the tastes?'

'I suppose,' said the second, 'that you can know the beauty of a chef’s art.'

'And what of the beauty of a woman,' the first said. 'Can I not know her beauty in the softness of her caress, the kindness of her voice, the keenness of her mind as she reads philosophy to me? Can I not know this beauty? Can I not know most kinds of beauty, even without seeing it?'

'Very well,' said the second. 'But what if your ears were removed, your hearing taken away? Your tongue taken out, your mouth forced shut, your sense of smell destroyed? What if your skin were burned so that you could no longer feel? What if all that remained to you was pain? You could not know beauty then. It can be taken from a man.'"

The messenger stopped, cocking his head to Shallan.
"What?" she asked.

"What think you? Can beauty be taken from a man? If he could not touch, taste, smell, hear, see, what if all he knew was pain? Has that man had beauty taken away from him?"

"I…" What did this have to do with anything? "Does the pain change day by day?"

"Let us say it does," the messenger said.

"Then beauty, to that person, would be the times when the pain lessens. Why are you telling me this story?"

The messenger smiled. "To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way. Tell me, what is the most beautiful thing you can imagine?"

...




“In this,” Wit said, “as in all things, our actions give us away. If an artist creates a work of powerful beauty – using new and innovative techniques – she will be lauded as a master, and will launch a new movement in aesthetics. Yet what if another, working independently with that exact level of skill, were to make the same accomplishments the very next month? Would she find similar acclaim? No. She’d be called derivative.

“So it’s not beauty itself we admire. It’s not the force of intellect. It’s not the invention, aesthetics, or capacity itself. The greatest talent we think a man can have?” He plucked a final string. “Seems to me that it must be nothing more than novelty.”




"A blind man awaited the era of endings," Wit said, "contemplating the beauty of nature."

Silence

"That man is me," Wit noted. "I'm not physically blind, just spiritually. And that other statement was actually very clever, if you think about it."




"What is it to be witty, then?”

“To say clever things.”

“And what is cleverness?”

“I…” Why was he having this conversation? “I guess it’s the ability to say and do the right things at the right time.”

The King’s Wit cocked his head, then smiled.




“Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.

“Conversely, if you gain a reputation for being too good, too skilled . . . beware. The better art will be in their heads, and if you give them an ounce less than they imagined, suddenly you have failed. Suddenly you are useless. A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare himself cheated.”

Wit shook his head, standing up and dusting off his coat. “Give me an audience who have come to be entertained, but who expect nothing special. To them, I will be a god. That is the best truth I know.”

~~ Stromlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson


"You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, ‘Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life. If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!"
-Hayao Miyazaki

"In culture an analogous situation leads to the emergence of enclaves shut up in ghettos, where intellectual production likewise stagnates because of inbreeding in the form of incessant repetition of the selfsame creative patterns and techniques. The internal dynamics of the ghetto may appear to be intense, but with the passage of years it becomes evident that this is only a semblance of motion, since it leads nowhere, since it neither feeds into nor is fed by the open domain of culture, since it does not generate new patterns or trends, and since finally it nurses the falsest of notions about itself, for lack of any honest evaluation of its activities from outside."

~Stanislaw Lem, author of Solaris

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I just don't want you to have a Bad Time...



What do I live for?





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Like I said, only ever played the first LoD game, but if I had a WiiU I'd totally get Breath of the Wild.


Nintendo Shift

That is the console that BotW is being released on.

WiiU was pretty much a flop.
You could probably guess just by my profile pic, but I am a HUGE Legend of Zelda fan.

I can honestly say that I have played and/or beaten every core game, except for Wind Waker and Four Swords (not Adventure, those are two different games)

The ones I have played but not beaten would be Zelda II, Minish Cap, and Link's Awakening.

The rest I have obsessively played over and over and over...
@Caits

I want to take a moment to compliment you for being such a great GM. You put a lot of time and effort into this RP, and I want you to know that someone recognizes that. You are on very often, and when a problem comes up, you deal with it quickly and very well. Its a also a very impressive accomplishment that you have kept this RP going for 2 years and counting.

So, thank you for being an awesome GM, and keep at it.
Whoo boy. I can see that this is a long held argument and a topic of heated debate, so believe me when I say I hesitate to put in my two cents for several reasons, one being that I am the new guy, and the lowest on the proverbial totem pole.

As @Lugubrious (and maybe a few of you whom I have interacted with before) can attest, I can be rather...whas the word I am looking for...? Opinionated, perhaps? Stubborn too. Meddlesome, yes. Impatient...yeah. So take my two cents here as you will.

@Lucius Cypher Dude, my opinion of you has just shot up immensely. You are the 'Voice of Reason' that I could only hope to be here. @everyone, I hope you really consider what Lucius has to say here. His advice is sound and logical.

As a side note, I happen to also be one of those fools who end up throwing a wrench in the works via a new idea, and that plus my above traits, actually made Lugu hesitant to let me in this RP, and I am very greatful to him for giving me this chance, as I am a huge fan of Rwbyverse.

Sheesh, the side note was longer then the original...

Anyhow.

Here is my opinion, which nobody probably cares about, but I'm going to give anyway, just to fill this echo chamber with more noise.

Sorry about that.

Being GM or Co-GM is a MASSIVE time investment that cannot be emphasized enough. It is also an emotional strain, having to deal with many people with hugly varying personalities, vocabulary, presentation, communication skills. Hell, just for keeping this afloat for so long deserves an attaboy. I tried to GM once, and the experience was so ugly that it put me off a little from trying again. (That and time constraints)

However, that said, I think to be a successful GM or Co, you need to spend a lot of time on, in another huge RP that I am in, and you have probably seen, the one and only Phoenix Wing, the GM there, Caits, is nearly always on for a significant period of time at least once a day, and whenever there is a problem, she either addresses it, or communicates that she has heard it, and gets back to it when she has time. All this to say, I have noticed an occasional lack of GM, or Co presence here that leads to this situation devolving. For example it is times like these when we most need GM presence to put the foot down. Not just Co.

That is asking a lot, though, and as Lucius so well stated, GM and Co are human too, and have lives too. As human, we will invariably disappoint each other. What defines you is how you react to that disappointment. So far, I have seen some bickering and heated tempers, but mostly, a lot of well meant advice from a lot of sources that pilled up and sounded like accusations. (I include this wall into that category)

So, obviously, there is a problem. People are discontent. What we need, then, is to find a solution. I'm not arrogant enought to say I have the solution, that is something we need to work out as a group.

So, Please. Please. Temper the bickering. Its not helping. What I suggest right now is to take a moment to stop, and reflect. Let tempers cool and work out a solution.

No more I agree, blah blah blah. Don't just comment on your dissatisfaction and be done, include an idea to fix the problem, or if you don't have one, just say something like 'I'm bringing this to your attention.' Or 'I'm not sure how to fix this.' And ask for suggestions and imput.

To not put my foot in my mouth, considering that last statment, I do have something of a suggestion. It may seem silly, but we could put up a spreadsheet or editable document labeled "List of Grievances" or somesuch that people can go to and put down not only a problem they see, but also a proposed solution. This communicating by posts is largly inefficient and ineffective, especially with so many people as posts can get buried.

I wanted this to be brief, but it has gotten longer then I wanted, so I'll finish up with this thought: Are you part of the problem, or part of the solution?

Edit: Now, if you will excuse me, I'm going to lurk and brace myself for the fallout.
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*Puts own name on the ballet just to see if anyone would bother voting for him*

Now what's a cool election slogan that uses the word "Guess."


Guess Who will be your new GM?
I try to read all the OOC at least, obviously I missed something earlier, but that happens sometimes. IC posts on the other hand are harder. Not to read, per say, but to understand what is going on. With all the people's posts all jumbled together, and often out of time sync with each other, you have to piece each story together. Headers work wonders for this, but still, I wish there was a way to organise the posts by whom it concerns and/or by plot/subplot thats going on. However, organizing them like that would be difficult to do without making it overly complicated.
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Nooooo

I'm innocent. Although some people might tell you otherwise lol


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@Caits -snuggles-


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Hi huggles


*walks in*

*stops and stares*

Am I interrupting something?
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The fourth slot on your team is being filled by Plank's character. I had thought this was common knowledge by now.


Nope, I must have missed that, sorry.
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My apologies, but that was a misunderstanding on Prince's part. There is no open slot currently.


Not to be rude, but what about our team?

Does that mean that you heard back from the banjo guy from earlier?
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