Gwazi Magnum

My Parents Will Be the Death of Me

My Parents Will Be the Death of Me

Death Threats

Lo Pellegrino said they deserve to be taken seriously

This is exactly what I'm getting at.

Now, I do have sympathies for your situation. Those people are assholes, your skin colour has nothing to do with your ability or right to sell a product at a certain store.
But taking it seriously is just that, taking it seriously. You are giving acknowledge and credit to it, which in the eyes of the one making the said threat only further validates the threats and let's them them they may actually have the power to do it (even if they in all likelihood wouldn't regardless).

I mean, if there are past actions to indicate they are actually able and willing to do said acts?
Such as say the guy giving the threat just got into a bloody fight, the guy threatening people of colour has actually closed places with people of colour or fired coloured employees?
Then that adds legitimate concern and worry, enough that it's not just empty words and you should be trying to act on it.
But the majority of the time it's not that, it's hot air. Hot air that only get's encouraged/reinforced when people take it seriously.

Touch of Insanity said Also as taking death threats seriously, even if people really don't mean it, my younger sister in high school got into a pickle because of something like this. A group of her and her friends were writing death threat song lyrics that were implying to hurt and kill another student. the student's girlfriend called the cops and at 10:30 at night a cop showed up at our door and told her, even if she didn't mean it how serious it is.

Honestly, I think the cops mainly take that stuff seriously because of pressure and diluting.
Pressure as in pressure from concerned/over-protective parents for the Cops to do something and diluting so they can try to sort out fake death threats from the real ones from when a case is underway.

Now, I do want to clarify.
I am not defending death threats in the slightest, they are shitty thing to do and no one should stoop to that level, ever.
But I don't think we're helping the matter by treating every one of them like it's a serious threat/ordeal.

Touch of Insanity said If you're reported making a threat to someone's life, if anything happens to that said person (can't remember for how long) the cops will always come to you and question you think you hurt them.

That's only logical. If the person was actually hurt/harmed, it means someone meant harm.
So logically the easiest place to look first are those who expressed desire to hurt them, even if the odds are low it's better than nothing.
It's a lead, police follow leads. Plus, they probably don't even think you hurt them most of the time. But they have to keep appearances of that they're certain/positive about what they think, it's a common tactic used by authority figures, parents, teachers, admins/moderators, bosses, you name it.

Death Threats

All these people suggesting to call authorities, get violent or treat the threat as legit seriously makes me question how much experience they have with nasty/vicious people. :/

I can understand being freaked if you're not used to vicious people, it can come up as a red alarm. But anyone with decent exposure to such nasty people learn quickly it's far more bark than anything else, and that freaking out over it only serves to make yourself more scared and worked up over it.

On that day, RPG received a grim reminder.

Roleplayers who fight to protect the Guild have a 3-4 year life expectancy before being devoured by the one liners.

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Kaga said
So I just realized something that doesn't make sense...If you're using any sort of drug, you say that you're "on" that drug. Like, you're "on anti-depressants" or "on acid" or w/e. But, again, if you're using any sort of drug... you also say that you're "under the influence of" that drug. Like, you're "under the influence of anti-depressants" or "under the influence of acid", etc.I don't get it. Are we "on" or "under" them? Where are we in spacial relationship to the drugs??? I just don't know anymore.

The strongest force on earth

I concur. That shit's a pro-killer in CoD.

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Kaga said Oh, you mean, Sherlock's finished?

It's not.

I'm saying that in regards to the amount of Sherlock content currently out, it's short enough to easily marathon through.
It's bound to change as more and more get's released, but atm catching up is rather easy.

Kaga said Speaking of confusion regarding fandoms and the content that exists for them books where did you go?

Kaga said *Ok I've never actually really ever heard anyone complain about a "lack of variety" on Netflix before.

I have. I make the complaint all the time, most people I know have made that exact complaint before.
But then again, I'm Canadian. Me and others I know all use the Canadian version which is far worse than the American version.

Kaga said tl;dr I find their streaming service overrated. Hardcopy master race.

You're master race is an endangered kind, the comet has already landed.
And soon us streaming rodents will crawl out of our tunnels and evolve into something greater.

Kaga said So that's a yes to cannabalizing everyone else's signatures?

Yup.

Kaga said That moment when you realize just how obvious it is that this is the first time in a long time that you've been off your ADD medication for more than 48 hours. Like seriously how many things did I attempt to do today before I got distracted? I don't even know.

I don't have ADD and having that many if not more tabs open at once is common for me... :/

Unless...
*Googles ADD*

I am now self-diagnosed with ADD.

(No offense to anyone who actually has ADD meant).

Kaga said Unless you have, like, depression, cuz I hear you have to take prosaic (am I spelling that right? Because that's what spellcheck suggested) for like two weeks straight before it kicks in at all. In which case... my condolences.

My only experience with it is having a friend from school with it, and an ex who self-diagnosed (so she may not have even had it), and information I could gather from online friends... With tidbits here and there from a number of different courses. But the ex I lost contact with 3 years ago, so it's been just the friends for a while now.

From my understanding it is something you can't just turn on or off. Or choose to be happy or not, it's like (if not quite literally) the hormones in your brain physically preventing you from feeling happy, regardless of what you're doing. But there's different degrees, some people are never happy, some have it on and off depending on the day, some have it in reaction to certain events or situations etc. Plus I believe Depression is at it's highest during the winter.

Kaga said Here's a gif to cheer you up

PUPPY!

Kaga said #SuperCasualAboutMentalDisorders,PotentiallyCasualEnoughToMakePeopleUncomfortable

#NotEasilyOffendedOrMadeUncomfortable...ExceptGuysTryingToKissMeThatCreepsMeOutAndNoI'mNotHomophobic

Kaga said Edit2: Also Gwazi you can take all the other gifs that you want, but if you take that one Vash gif that used to be my sig for like 6 months straight that one time, I just might have an identity crisis or something. Just so you know.

MUA HA HA HA HA HA!

I tease, I've never watched TriGun anyways, so it's not something I'd be looking for Gifs of regardless. :P

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Kaga said Actually, it's really not that different than Classic Who in terms of length. The 1 hour and 30 minute episodes are the same length as a 4-part Classic Who arc, and the 2 hour 15 minute episodes are the same as a 6-part arc. And most of Classic Who's arcs are either 4-parters or 6-parters. So, I'm kind of used to the running time.

In fact, Classic Who seasons weren't that much longer than Sherlock seasons, either, since most of them only had about 4-5 arcs per season. And since I'm pretty sure the original Doctor Who was only on its 4th season ~1967, yeah, Sherlock produces content at only a little bit slower than Doctor Who originally did.

But the Doctors have far more seasons over all. It is put together a far bigger time investment than Sherlock.
I get that Doctor Who has far more of a history to go through, I was just saying that Sherlock isn't exactly that long of a series.

Most shows I've watched have been at least twice the length of Sherlock.
It was a show I found very easy to marathon in simply because of the little amount of time required.

Kaga said -Netflix-

I don't get why they don't put that same effort into the streaming, it's what most people are using. :/

Kaga said Speaking of my favorite Doctor Who ships: Is your signature to come across as a cannibalization of everyone else's signatures? Cuz I keep seeing images from my signature (and previous ones) popping up in there. I didn't say anything when I thought you snagged only one or two images, but now it seems like you're just grabbing everything you see... :/Edit: For a moment there, our signatures were exactly the same. @_@

My signature is a mass collection of any gif I come across that I like all put together.
Because, like I said in the PM exchange that ultimately led to me joining this RP:

Magic Magnum said
B... but! I like so many things! How could I possibly stick to just one!? D:

Magic Magnum said
Honestly with me it's just a matter of "I like this sig! And that one! And that one! I can't decide which! But wait... I can use this program and then use ALL of them!? Sign me up!".

But I am also a kind of compulsive gif collector, which means if I notice another rotating sig with gifs I like I start to dissect it for gifs.
And yes you tend to pick a lot of Gif's I like, so there is a fair amount that's going to have originated from you.

I had done the same to Rare though before too, I got 30 or so gifs out of that.

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Kaga said
For most of the first three episodes I was like "Yeah, this is pretty interesting. Not mind-blowing but worth watching."And then I made it to the last 15 minutes or so of episode 3 and I spent all of those 15 minutes either screaming at the screen or staring with my jaw hanging open. It got really really good really really quickly.Unfortunately it might be a little while till I can watch more cuz I have Netflix hard-copy rentals and I wanted to snag the Doctor Who 20th anniversary special while it's briefly available...Edit: At least now I understand why Henry keeps fangirling over Benedict Cumberbatch's cheekbones because holy jeez how do those even happen.

It took me several episodes before I started to really like shows such as Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and Doctor Who.
I guess it has to do with the fact that series start off slow to describe the plot, characters, environment etc?

But yea, season 1's ending was pretty awesome. :P
Though it's the polar opposite from Doctor Who in that Sherlock is an insanely short series, only 3 episodes per season and 3 seasons.
So it shouldn't take too long to catch up in it. But then again, each episode is over an hour long.

Hardcover Netflix though?
That's still a thing? O_O
I thought they just went completely digital a long time ago.