Dinh AaronMk

What is your best roleplaying memory?

When two fictional Finns martyr'd themselves for Finnish sovereignty by exploding the czar in an alt-history RP, leading to the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1970.

Or, well, one martyr'd himself. His partner's survival is up in the air still in the RP's lore.

That happened four-years ago and the RP itself is still going.

To the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.S out there.

"The atom is not a soldier, it is a worker."
-Close approximation to Soviet NPP propaganda as written from memory

Thirty years ago today, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP) reactor number 4 blew its top, as from a malfunction in its reactor. The resulting explosion culminating in the worst nuclear disaster the world has seen. Even more so than today's Fukushima. Something near fifty people - reactor workers, fire-fighters - died as a direct result of the event but over the years the death-toll brought about from the radiation that leaked climbed into the thousands. Exact numbers can be politically charged.

In the aftermath, the nuclear utopia town of Pripyat - built to match the highest bar of Soviet living standards in the seventies and eighties in celebration of their nuclear energy sector - Chernobyl, and the area surrounding were evacuated of 60,000 residents in just hours and nuclear fires burned towards the CNPP

Today a thirty kilometer zone of exclusion separates the area from the rest of the world. Thirty years on the Zone of Alienation is a petri-dish for ecological study and "Dark Tourism", people visiting The Zone to bask in the grim glow of Chernobyl's world in Ukraine.

Figured after work I'd put this out, since while browsing the news on work-provided phones I was informed. Mostly writing this from memory and what I already know before I hit the bed.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

My arm momentarily popped out of its shoulder socket in a car accident.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I pick heavy things up and put them down on a regular basis.

I used to be really sore in the legs, now my feet just hurt. I decided to start using the Dr Scholl foot pad things for my shoes. Helped sorta, except now it seems my left foot just hurts on principle.

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I'm keeping track of how the government has fucked me so I can get some disability pay when I leave.

Right now I have a shoulder that popped out of its socket and continues to do so on a constant basis and joint/back problems.

@TheEvanCat

inb4 you leave and try to take out disability and some staunch conservative government is in power and refuses to pay up because it'd be a abuse of its fiscal responsibilities.

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We did our kilometer sprint in the indoor track built like 100 years ago that has asbestos and I'm still hacking my lungs up.

Call that mesothelioma.

@TheEvanCat

Well if you do come down with Meso, then you can get in on that big multi-million dollar pot.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

This thread has become a list of shit I need to listen to.

@Vilageidiotx

Since I'm on a Slavophilia binge.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

"Look Ivan, I can shoot pesstol."

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

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Kanye hears ya. Kanye don't care.

(Although I have talked about my Kanye conspiracy theories for like, hours on end. TL;DR he's not a bad dude.)

@TheEvanCat

You need to be sharp and witty to be as crazy as Kanye.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

I could never get into the J-Pop or K-pop stuff. It's too... bubbly for me, I guess? That's the best word I can think of.

@Vilageidiotx

What the western world needs is some good deviant Hard Bass.



I am ready to raid a Chinese restaurant with my hundred friends and spasm between the tables.