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Resistance: Fall Of Man RP

My priorities are perfectly straight. Tonight I helped organise the collective procrastination excuse of my English class for why nobody has done a certain essay yet. Inevitably it'll just fall to me to bullshit us through once again, but hey, at least I tried.

You Wake Up in Bed with the Member Above You

"Dear God, why? Why have you done this to me? You promised me the world would be a place full of promise and beauty, and now you have taken me and crushed me beneath an iron heel. Death is all I must look forward to now. My soul is blackened and tarnished forevermore, and no amount of prayer, nor blessing nor repentance, can salve this wound or remove this abominable stain."

Fried Chicken

Today I had a fried chicken starter at this fancy-ass restaurant. Buttermilk Fried Chicken with ginger and chilli. It would normally cost about £7.50. Out come four tiny but mindblowingly delicious chicken wings. I'm simply thankful that I had a 50% off voucher because seriously £7.50 ($12.30) for four tiny wings is not okay. Fried chicken is nice. Fancy fried chicken is delicious. But not delicious enough for that.

Ready to cringe and/or punch your computer?

Uskglass said
I agree, but I think it's a little presumptuous to imply that none of these sad sacks of shit are "genuinely intelligent." The problem comes from the fact that even if you are an intelligent person, that's a very difficult trait to quantify or demonstrate. And when it's one of the few-to-only positive traits you have, people who are not particularly confident in themselves tend to put the nebulous concept of "intellect" on a pedestal. There's two ways that can go. The first is that you retreat into yourself and say "At least I'm intelligent" while the world spins by you, but it burns like hell every time you meet someone who is smarter than you, which is always bound to happen eventually, because in your head it means that they're better than you in every conceivable way. That's the path I took for several years early in high school, until I realized that insecurity is bullshit and I'm the fucking man.The other path is lashing out, deciding that intelligence, specifically your intelligence, is the most important trait and everyone who doesn't agree with you on everything is a fool and vastly inferior to you. Case in point, the fine gentlemen you see in this thread.

I disagree. I know in myself that there's a deep level of insecurity and need for the recognition (if not necessarily approval) of my positive qualities by my peers, and I do consider my intelligence to be both high and one of my more important traits. I'm also painfully aware that there isn't much to make me likable. Yet, I would and do relish the chance to meet people who are infinitely more intelligent than me. It's why I was deeply disappointed at not getting into Cambridge - the thing I was most excited about was that there, I'd be the bottom of the class instead of the top of the school, for once. It would have been a chance for an intellectual challenge, and though I knew I would have fully hated being outsmarted constantly, I also relished the idea of learning from and being inspired by these people.
I've spent most of my life miles ahead of my peers, I highly value my intelligence, I'm pretty damn insecure, and yet I don't lash out or retreat into myself. And because singular anecdotes are never exactly solid evidence to the contrary, I'll note that I've met many people like this (again, not great evidence, but hey-ho). I think what you're saying is largely correct, as in those behaviours are common, I just think that generalising it to such a high extent can lead to the exact sort of kneejerk shoehorning/categorising of people that you're criticising in Hank's statement that they all lack genuine intelligence.

What's your "type" physically?

I'm going to post something relevant to the OP even though this thread derailed long, long ago.

I'm similar to someone earlier in this thread in that I end up being most attracted to the attributes of the person I have ze ubercrush on at the time. I like a dancer; that sort of body becomes my ideal. I like a tattoo+piercings, punk-type girl with short hair, I fall in love with those attributes. It's pretty impossible for me to separate the whole emotional side from the physical side, which isn't to say I "only care about personality", more just that my physical attraction is strongly governed by my emotional one. If I were to hypothetically watch porn, or fantasise, I'd end up watching/fantasising someone who's similar to the person I'm emotionally attracted to.
Despite that, there are a couple of things I find universally attractive, but they're not physical in a visual sense. I love it when a girl has their own distinct smell - of course it has to be pleasant, but also distinctively theirs. I also have a huge thing for the way a girl moves - it doesn't have to be a certain way, necessarily, but I like either grace or adorable clumsiness (opposites, I know, but hey-ho the human mind ain't logical.)
One of the few physical things I find objectively attractive is size - I like to be able to envelop and surround someone when I hold them close, to physically make them feel surrounded and protected and safe. I also find a tendency to blush ridiculously attractive in both a physical and emotional sense. Lastly, voice - I dunno if this is "physical" as such, but I absolutely cannot be physically attracted to a girl whose voice I dislike.

Bomb Threat

Someone called in a bomb threat to my school on the second-last day of term, just before Christmas. We got the day off, and it all totally wasn't suspicious at all.

What does your Avatar say about you?

/effort

Resistance: Fall Of Man RP

SAS - The Special Air Service, most famed of the British special forces. Serious fucking badasses.
Paratroopers - an elite division of the British Army specialising in parachuting into combat zones, hence the name. Often the first ones into a fight. One of the three/four (one division is a territorial army division, or some such, which I believe means they stay on British soil and dont deploy abroad) divisions is part of the SFSG, the Special Forces Support Group, and work closely with the SAS on many operations.

Resistance: Fall Of Man RP

I'll take your word on it, Andae.

Kyle - hopefully we'll all be able to RP at similar times, then! I know Lettie is in California, 8 hours behind us, and I think Sera is in the Midwest, though I may be completely wrong there. I think she's someplace beginning with an M. Hmmm.

Resistance: Fall Of Man RP

Andae said
No, that sounds pretty much spot on, since the SAS see the Para's as beneath them, and the Para's are somewhat jealous, so, the rivalry is already there, whether they knew each other prior to the game or not, perhaps, despite their former affiliations, they have a more 'friendly' rivalry, as opposed out-right competition they would have had between one another at first encounter within the RP, due to previous knowledge of the other's existences.

Most of the SAS are selected from the paratroopers, and as I understand it all Paras are cycled through the SFSG in their careers. I haven't heard much about a rivalry, although I suppose theoretically some Paras may be jealous if they applied for SAS selection and got rejected. That's these days, though, it was somewhat different back in 1950, so... I dunno about this jealousy/rivalry thing. But the personality of your character is easily enough to somewhat antagonise mine.

EDIT: Also, yes, I'm British, as is Andae. Seravee and Lettie are American.