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2 yrs ago
Current The dot over a lowercase i and j has a name! It's called a tittle, which is a noun meaning "a tiny amount or part of something". Like the dot over an i or a j.
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2 yrs ago
Cows don't leave the slaughterhouse, steaks do.
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3 yrs ago
Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water Put water into a cup, becomes the cup Put water into a teapot, becomes the teapot Water can flow or drip or crash Be water, my friend --Bruce Lee
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3 yrs ago
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
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3 yrs ago
Mr. Clark, your daughter is a very good kisser.
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I am a veteran of the United States Army and the US Army National Guard. I spent three years on Active Duty serving in the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized) at Ft. Carson, CO and 3rd Armor Division at Kirch Göns, West Germany. I spent 18 years in the Army National Guard with the 26th Infantry Division "Yankee" and 29th Infantry Division (Light), "The Blue and the Gray". I was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina with the 29th ID (L) in 2001 - 2002. I have also been reading military history articles and books for over 49 years. I do prefer Military Role Plays over all other genres, primarily because I have a vast knowledge on the subject to include personal experiences. At the very least, my characters are always veterans.

I have been writing for pleasure for at least 35+ years, but only got into forum-based Role Playing about fifteen years ago. I do enjoy Nation Role Plays and get into minute detail when designing my military. The only reason I enjoy excruciating detail in my militaries is because for me, it is fun. My education and experience on this subject afford me the insight to see the depth of the structure. It is not just a General and a large pile of soldiers. If someone wants assistance in designing an army, navy, or air force, please send me a PM. I will help. Please specify what level (echelon) or depth you would like me to go. When I say echelon, I mean Army, Corps, Division, Brigade/Regiment, Battalion/Squadron, Company/Troop/Battery, Platoon, and Squad/Section.

When I was a student in High School, I used to play Dungeons & Dragons (Edition 1 & 2). Later editions came out after I quit that game. Recently, I have been DMing a 5e campaign of my creation for my son and his friends. 5e is so much less cumbersome than earlier editions of D&D. I do have an interest in Tolkien-esque fantasy-styled Role Plays as well. Time travel has always been a fun genre for me, but to do it well, one must have a firm grasp of historical facts. I love doing this form of role play, especially since I have a solid foundation on the past.

There are only a few fanfictions I will participate in; Star Wars and Star Trek are two of them. I want to do an exclusively Klingon RP one of these days. I also avoid Canon characters.

I have real-world martial arts experience. I would love to write an RP about hand-to-hand combat, no fantasy magic chit, just hands elbows, knees, and feet. Maybe the occasional head butt thrown in to mix things up. I trained in Krav Maga for six and a half years. I earned a first-degree black belt in Krav Maga on 3 June 2017.

Krav Maga is an Israeli martial art form that employs practical self-defense techniques drawing forms & techniques from Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and Taekwando. It is very brutal, demanding, and aggressive. During the seven years I trained, I have bruised two ribs, sustained several muscle pulls, and various lacerations and bruises over my body. I have received a sprained ankle and a fractured wrist. Before the first black belt test, I received a bone bruise to my right shin; where my roundhouse kicks impact. Yet, I am stupid enough to continue training. [Regardless of the physical pain, it is more fun than any other physical activity I have engaged in. Fortunately, the bone bruise healed up prior to the third and final test. EDIT: I did leave the sport over four years ago. :(]

Almost two years ago I completed my first novel, a science fiction set in the 24th century. It focuses on a Private Military Corporation solely employed by the earth government. I started a second book in November 2022 and hope to work on that this summer when I have more time.

Send me a PM for a Role Play or if you would like to see what sort of an army I could build for you.

--Gunther (AKA: Old School)



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I habitually prefer to keep to corners and avoid large open spaces. Woodland is preferable to purely open ground, in example, and I skirt the edges of large rooms, better still those nearest exits. There is something innately unsettling about the alternative and I am not sure how people can comfortably exist in them.

This is called, "Moving Tactically" coupled with being aware of all exits and situational awareness.

@Liv If there was a sad/frowny face button, I woulda pushed it. :/
Relating to my most recent status, I'm not afraid to admit that I cried a little bit at the end of Toy Story 3.
...me too and my children did not understand why.

I chew and eat coffee beans when I'm stressed.
I had to hold instant coffee between lip and gum as a form of hazing once. It was not terribly painful, but tasted disgusting.

Continuing with crying at movies, the first movie that made me cry was Dragonheart. I loved Sean Connery as Draco, so that ending…

The movie, "The Notebook" is banned from our house for this reason.

Hey everyone,

In order to set up physics for the RP, by "Space" we really mean an alternate plane, like a Plane in D&D terms, or similar that is spacelike in terms of appearance with planetary bodies and stellar bodies, but rooted in a medieval or ancient understanding of space. We're way away from hard Sci fi here and I thought it best to clarify that.

Edit: The Astral Plane, basically, Medieval concept that explained space in more theological or mythical terms than anything.


Does this mean a sailor can walk the decks of a ship, while in "space" and breath air? Gravity?
I hope to post here later today. My goal is to get a post into this and "The Combat Zone" with Liv and do a character up for Wild Hunt.

The Combat Zone is a modern crime drama where Liv and I play a pair of adult brother and sister, living in South Boston. The area formerly known as The Combat Zone (1950s to late 1970s) still exists and it is a den of crime with corruption in Boston PD. We also have a pair of BPD detectives investigating a murder the siblings created. I tried this idea some years ago on another site. It went to a bizarre psychological level that really weirded me out. I got into excruciating detail on how my character carved this woman during the process of murdering her.
For the unrelated but essential fact, in keeping with the topic, one of the elements I dread most about roleplaying is naming my characters. I do not enjoy the process of trying to formulate a name and almost always find myself second guessing it for the reason it just does not "feel" ideal in some terribly nondescript, inexplicable way.
I decided to remove the stress of naming characters a long time ago. I always look names up online and take one that seems to fit for me. If I am writing an Irish American, I look up "Irish American" names online. Recently, I created a pair of Half Orcs and looked their names up on a fantasy name generator: Bog Bilgepump and Dura Kharzach.

@The Harbinger of Ferocity, Outstanding news, bro!

I posted a half-orc female corpsman named Dura Kharzach
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Krav Maga class was fun this morning. Mixed class: white to Black belts doing gun defense.
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