Gwazi Magnum

Do you keep RPing a secret? Is it safe?

Rica said
Nah it was just straight Habbo.com, I spent most my time in the Pokemon rooms. I was (still am) obsessed with Pokemon at the time. :P

Ah, most RP activity seemed to stem from the .com version.

Plus, most people are still obsessed with pokemon. :P

An Old Veteran's Past

Hank said And what the fuck was that supposed to be?

They fight for Spam's freedom against the Legion and Brony oppressors.

Mtntopview said What constitutes 'veteran'

Having fought in a battle.

Just Preordered DAI

I'm probably waiting until closer to steam sales cause that's when I get a christmas money advance.
Plus, it will help me dodge the game if it turns out to be an EA trap.

I made a religion (still working on a name)

So Boerd said Magic. Address my point that those who lack religion have killed more in both absolute and proportional terms than those who do.

I did, several times. You keep coming back with the same arguments though, so it'd be a waste of breath to keep the cycle going.

Protagonist said
1. Fair enough. But then, wouldn't it not be the fault of religion, but rather gnosticism?As for statement

2. though, I would say that completely dismissing the bible would make you more or less non-Christian. Depending on what you mean by dismissing the bible. While it's not quite the core of Christian beliefs, a Christian can more or less be considered someone who basically accepts the bible as (in some fashion) true. If somebody were to believe that the bible should be completely ignored, then they are not Christians by definition. It's not so much that I think you can't be a Communist Christian, but a Christian wouldn't be a Marxist.

1. Gnosticism is definitely a role in it as far as things such as no science in schools, violence, child molesting etc. is concerned. But it's also an activity that you only see a spike in with Gnostic Theists, not Gnostic Atheists. Gnostic Atheists such as say Richard Dawkins might be seen as very cold and pessimistic people by much of the population mind you (I'm not one of them, but I'm aware that it's a common opinion about him), but are by no means responsible for such barbaric crimes.

But in regards to Agnostic Theism then? Yes, they are pretty much innocent of most of the bigger crimes and accusations of religion. Unless if they start taking stances such as "You can criticize someone's religion", which is what a lot of them have been doing. They use the reasoning that "Most of us aren't murderers, so stop attacking people for their religion and allow religious freedom without criticism" which is a fine idea in theory. But it comes with three main problems:

a) Those Gnostic's are doing it largely because of religion. So by expecting people to stop criticizing the religion they essentially give such extremists a shield/scapegoat. All they need to do is go "We kill these children in the name of God!", and now that they're pulling the religion card they become untouchable as a direct result of the actions done by Agnostic Theists.

b) It makes it so believing something without any evidence is now acceptable. It is essentially no different than someone going "I believe we are all created by a floating teapot owned by a Spaghetti Monster and was born from a virgin invisible pink unicorn" and legally no one would be allowed to step up and say "I find that wrong, and the idea rather silly", which leads me to the third point:

c) It removes freedom of speech/criticism. As soon as you make anything immune to criticism, freedom of speech is lost. Ideas and practices are allowed to spread unchallenged, and the results of such can be disastrous. And I will note, science and atheism is not immune to criticism. It is allowed to critique, questioning, doubt etc. In fact in regards to science students are encouraged to question and doubt things, and to go out and seek more answers and evidence.

2. Personally I do agree, you shouldn't be calling yourself a Christian if you are willing to dismiss the bible. It's contradictory to the religion entirely. However, there are many cases like this (My Mom as an example). They call themselves Christian they hold a belief in Jesus and the Christian God, but will discount the entirety of the Bible for being written by desert people over 2000 years ago. And as long as the only real requirement of being under _______ religion is claiming to be part of it, there are going to be many cases like this.

RPing Real People

You mean roleplay as an existing person?

Cause I've seen RL themed RP's all the time, high school life, fighting in a real war etc.
But specifically going "We're the mythbusters!" is a new one... and I had over 20k posts from RP's back on the old guild.

Personally, if that's what people want to do then more power to them. But it's not something that I personally would have any interest in joining.

feminist roleplaying

Vilageidiotx said
I think letting people choose their own way of doing it makes the most sense. Equality should be equal in the sense of equal rights and access to choices, not equal in the sense that you are forced to fit some shallow abstract that somebody else invented.

Agreed.

comet noise x10,000hz

Spooky o.O

An Old Veteran's Past

Kaga said I only remember Nat posting ponies everywhere and people getting mildly annoyed.Don't recall any sort of "Brony war". I do remember people getting annoyed by Homestuck, though. Now it seems to be Doctor Who that everyone's against. *shrugs*

It was years ago.
Back when Woodfin was still an active member, and was around the time of groups such as "The Brotherhood of Spam".

Walker of Darkness said I recall the flame war between Casual and Advanced. The renaming of Beginner to Free. The birth of Spam. The Douche wars, the Migration, the Influx, the Wandering, the flame war of OT and Spam, Free and Spam, Advanced and Free. I recall the fall of the Mods, Mods and members that now only Gat, Kenyi, and myself even spoke to. RpGuild has a vast and storied history. And I have watched it all from the shadows, and at some points, dipped my hands into the events. The fall of the Old guild was a changing of a Era, and much of it's histories are lost. But now here it stands, ready to build it's tales anew. And I, as always, watch it from the shadows.

The majority of these I don't recall, and I've been on the site for around 5 years now.

Random bitching about the games industry

Kaga said
Well I bought Super Smash Bros for 3DS recently and I think it's great. [/clearly knows nothing about serious gaming]

Nintendo is honestly just not discussed much in 'serious' gaming because they're getting a ton right atm. So most people tend to go, "Nintendo? I like Nintendo!" while when Xbone and PS4 come up there's a list of complaints and concerns to be having. While PC is very dependent on what indie devs you're looking at, so it's a bunch of smaller discussions rather than one exploding one.

Welcome Back to the Guild

Both of them seemed to be thankful for his help, even though it was more like they saved him than it was the other way around. Before he could really reply though one of them asked if he was a roleplayer, which normally we'd respond to cautiously. But in the same sentence she had basically given away their identities as roleplayers, which washed away most concern that they'd be Roleplayer-Hunting NPCs. So Gwazi nodded in response and said "Yes, I'm a roleplayer. And judging by how you worded that question I assume you're both roleplayers too?". But then rewinding a second he commented "Also, you more saved me from that Ratbug than the other way around. But thanks anyways".