Responding to violence with violence is a natural knee-jerk reaction. And to most people it appears to work, especially if one can comfortably do so with minimal acceptance of responsibility for those actions of violence.
Typical rationalizations for violence as preferred option:
1. Kill a person? Bury the body. Done. Let the orphans feed themselves. Totally no way this can bite me in the arse.
2. Broke your bones? Not my bones, so not my problem. Can't prove I did it so you don't have a leg to stand on, literally.
3. Oh hey, eye for an eye. Because equal and immediate retribution is all these idiots understand. I don't have the time/patience to talk to idiots.
4. Kharma / they had it coming / It was god's will that I got angry and crippled someone on the street (pretty sure the last one is a sacrilege)
5. I have the law on my side, it says I can beat you to death with this stick. It's rule of thumb, bitch.
^Feel free to tear those apart.
In the bigger scheme of things, yeah, there are other methods one can try. Will it 'work'? Not immediately, maybe not at all... could even get worse.
-But does that alone justify not even trying other ways?
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-There will be delays in replies. Largely due to working overtime, voluntary obligations; other RPs and online-things may compete for my attention.
'Bout me:
Started RPing (badly) back in '05, mostly doing nation-RPs with an emphasis on technology and strategy, later edging out to character-espionage and military-tactics before doing "less serious" character roleplays that were outside of the 2005-2008 continuity.
That's when I went to Dead-Frontier, and found the RP community there, joined a clan, did some pretty good roleplays and pretty much loosened-up my online-personality. When the clan-leader decided to move her RPs here, most of the clan followed.
Took a course in technical-writing back in '08, so now I may sometimes use the semicolon correctly.
In 2010 I dusted off the old nation-RP continuity I had, doing a few hetelia-esque RP-shenanigans there..
RP-Habbits: I tend to geek-out on little technical-details, and sometimes infer how those details would impact the background of the roleplay. Great for world-building, not so great when you had a perfectly good plotline and I just MacGyver it off the rails (though I usually er to the side of amusement, sometimes it creates very grim side-stories).
'Bout me:
Started RPing (badly) back in '05, mostly doing nation-RPs with an emphasis on technology and strategy, later edging out to character-espionage and military-tactics before doing "less serious" character roleplays that were outside of the 2005-2008 continuity.
That's when I went to Dead-Frontier, and found the RP community there, joined a clan, did some pretty good roleplays and pretty much loosened-up my online-personality. When the clan-leader decided to move her RPs here, most of the clan followed.
Took a course in technical-writing back in '08, so now I may sometimes use the semicolon correctly.
In 2010 I dusted off the old nation-RP continuity I had, doing a few hetelia-esque RP-shenanigans there..
RP-Habbits: I tend to geek-out on little technical-details, and sometimes infer how those details would impact the background of the roleplay. Great for world-building, not so great when you had a perfectly good plotline and I just MacGyver it off the rails (though I usually er to the side of amusement, sometimes it creates very grim side-stories).
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nautilusmp said
You know you have an RP problem when you do hours of research to write your character's backstory, just because you as the writer have no knowledge of the subject your character is supposed to be familiar with / good at. It is a worse problem when as time goes by, you start loving the subject because of your character.
Not saying I've done that, but...
I've had more of Kidd's problem, when a player drops with a pivotal character, plots the statblock on my desk with some rough notes on what was planned, and tells me to have fun...
-3 months later and I have no fucking clue who's character I'm RPing.
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Chekhov's Armoury: How to make everything you write relevant and meaningful.
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Step 1: Have a wicked memory
Step 2: MacGyverisms
Step 3: Patience
Helps if you ever feel like making other players twist in the wind a bit.
-I will also point out that lack of performing necessary bodily functions will result in IC-constipation, and it WILL have an adverse effect on performance.
Step 2: MacGyverisms
Step 3: Patience
Helps if you ever feel like making other players twist in the wind a bit.
-I will also point out that lack of performing necessary bodily functions will result in IC-constipation, and it WILL have an adverse effect on performance.
Magic Magnum said
I want to be the guy who married a woman with a full grown daughter so I get a step-daughter, but then my step-daughter marries my dad, so now my dad is my son in law and my step-daughter is now my mother. My wife being the mother's mother becomes my grandma, making me my wife's grandchild and if I'm the husband of my grandma then I'm my own grandpa.
This would also present an infinite-loop, making you married to your smoking-hot great-great-grandma.
Now, if you had a TARDIS...
Kidd said
Well albinos can have purple or blue eyes as well. In fact pink, purple, and blue are actually more common than the red popular media tends to use.
Wouldn't that mean she burns super-easy, though?
More likely, she's lived a... 'protected' lifestyle and simply never tanned.
Strangely fitting for my RPs as of late...
When you post in a random thread and it turns into an intervention.
When what you learn, solely through RPing, is enough to get your college degree.
Heh... sometimes the RP-characters are like that girl in Vertigo.
When what you learn, solely through RPing, is enough to get your college degree.
Wolfling said When your roleplay is dropped and you feel like you have to explain to your character why you can't write him anymore.
Heh... sometimes the RP-characters are like that girl in Vertigo.
Great, this comes out, and my PC crashes...
akela said
I get disappearing or flaking. What I DON'T get is when we talk it all out and nothing happens. Like, they disappear before they even post. Or maybe after one. Cause like you said, sometimes it just doesn't work out. I know people that are great writers, but our styles just wouldn't work. For example, I've tried a few awesome action filled rps, and I WANT to love it, that's why I start it, but then I end up having to quit because I suck at all action, no thoughts and drama. I get quitting...but not RIGHT when we finally worked all the boring details out :(
19th century names are hard.
*settles for Jack McFinn.
Salva's "furlough" was short-lived, as he was soon strolling through the motor-pool trying to haggle himself a '97 Toyota Hilux with the larger 2.8L engine, delivering a greater torque of 139 ft-pounds and 90 horsepower. The guard was not willing to give-up the general's '07 model built in South Africa with 143 horsepower. Not only this, but the newer truck still had functional air-conditioning and an extended cab, allowing one to travel in relative comfort despite the 35+ (Celsius) degree heat-wave. At the rate this Nuer was haggling, he was lucky to get a model with a working all-wheel drive at all.
After finally getting a truck that did not show too many obvious signs of mud-induced rust or sun-peeled paint, he had the truck mounted with a PKM machine-gun and a sling-seat, he then went through the streets to find a Dinka willing to drive them around for about two thousand dollars, American. At this point he was thankful the rear-window of the Hilux he'd "leased" from the motor-pool had the rear-window shot-out, so he could direct the driver by nudging his shoulders with his feet.
Maps were actually pretty easy, a quick trip to the tourist office, and borrowing a photocopier for about 15 minutes produced about a hefty booklet of annotated papers regarding places to see, places to avoid, and friendly reminders that the Sudd was going to swell and flood the outlaying areas in about 70 days or less -dicker around the Nile at your own risk.
Then came the issue of procuring provisions. The letter said the client was going to be well-fed, but it said nothing of himself, their vehicle, or water; there was also a chance they could make a grave mistake. Water, paraffin-fuel, and coal-diesel were the important aspects, and lined the truckbed-interior. A roof-rack was also mounted, allowing a tarpaulin to be erected to form a crude tent, as it tended to rain quite hard whenever it did.
Setting-up a base-camp was probably the hardest part, but a few phone-calls set themselves up a reservation in a garrision-town outside Rumbek, notable as being one of the few cities with a modern hospital and a still-functional airport.
As the days passed and he came to trust the hired-help not to crash into a ditch full of mines and explode, it was time to go and fetch this "M. Westlake" person. The military's Beechcraft 1900 VIP business-jet was sent to Kenya's Moi airport specificly to pick-up this person, and to pick up a fresh shipment of firearms, medical supplies, and war-correspondents.
After finally getting a truck that did not show too many obvious signs of mud-induced rust or sun-peeled paint, he had the truck mounted with a PKM machine-gun and a sling-seat, he then went through the streets to find a Dinka willing to drive them around for about two thousand dollars, American. At this point he was thankful the rear-window of the Hilux he'd "leased" from the motor-pool had the rear-window shot-out, so he could direct the driver by nudging his shoulders with his feet.
Maps were actually pretty easy, a quick trip to the tourist office, and borrowing a photocopier for about 15 minutes produced about a hefty booklet of annotated papers regarding places to see, places to avoid, and friendly reminders that the Sudd was going to swell and flood the outlaying areas in about 70 days or less -dicker around the Nile at your own risk.
Then came the issue of procuring provisions. The letter said the client was going to be well-fed, but it said nothing of himself, their vehicle, or water; there was also a chance they could make a grave mistake. Water, paraffin-fuel, and coal-diesel were the important aspects, and lined the truckbed-interior. A roof-rack was also mounted, allowing a tarpaulin to be erected to form a crude tent, as it tended to rain quite hard whenever it did.
Setting-up a base-camp was probably the hardest part, but a few phone-calls set themselves up a reservation in a garrision-town outside Rumbek, notable as being one of the few cities with a modern hospital and a still-functional airport.
As the days passed and he came to trust the hired-help not to crash into a ditch full of mines and explode, it was time to go and fetch this "M. Westlake" person. The military's Beechcraft 1900 VIP business-jet was sent to Kenya's Moi airport specificly to pick-up this person, and to pick up a fresh shipment of firearms, medical supplies, and war-correspondents.
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