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Years ago I would roleplay regularly, keeping up on writing. However when life got busy it was one of the first things to go. I'm now a 26 year old guy with an academic past missing his more creative younger days and hoping roleplay can be a through road for this.

I enjoy most stories, anything where I can create an interesting character will do. That said fantasy would probably be my main haunt with sci-fi following as a close second.

Anything else you want to know you can drop me a pm and I'll be happy to respond.

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Yes, I think there are some positions which I think are so vile that people should not hold them. One of those positions might be that the holocaust would have been better if it had been more focused on some groups more than it was. I did not mean that such positions should be banned outright. I thought that there were some opinions which were nowadays naturally repellant to people, but it appears that I was wrong. Apparently it has not been decided yet whether the methodology of the Holocaust was a good or a bad thing.


It is easy to talk of things being "good" or "bad" after the fact, however it wasn't necessarily that the Nazi's themselves thought those methods "good" only that they thought they achieved a "good". I'm not agreeing with them but it is an important distinction, one that is easy to ignore when you're judging someone's actions retrospectively.

Ultimately the Nazi's only acted as they did to achieve their end goals and, despite some portrayals in fiction, no one believes themselves to be evil. It is hard to accept but there must have been some motivation behind what the Nazi's did in which they believed themselves to be achieving some "good".

Don't get me wrong, I understand this logic is easy to ignore when faced with the horrors of some actions taken to achieve this "good" but in the end Germany at the time believed itself to be doing some good. We might not be able to understand their motivations but I don't think that gives us the right to dictate an objective morality.

Fifty years ago "positions I find so vile I believe others shouldn't hold them" could have been the opinion held on gay people and gay marriage. If we start allowing that position to hold water now who knows who else will be oppressed through it.
Andreyich. I didn't mean that there should be laws against saying such thing. I meant that there are some positions which are so vile that it would be best if people didn't believe in them.


One useful technique for voicing opinions is to first check them for objective/subjective wording. You've written "there are some positions which are so vile" which is an opinion dressed up as fact. What you're actually saying is:

'there are some positions I find so vile that I think it would be best if people didn't believe in them'

I don't suppose I have to say much more than that for you to hear how that sounds.

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Sorry about double posting the same thing, I couldn't see my post when I went to look for it (wouldn't the first time the internet lost my posts) so I rewrote the jist.
Well I've always been a strong believer that whatever the problem a cup of tea can solve it...so naturally tea leaves should hold the ultimate truth.

Introspective though...hmmm...

What aspect of myself is holding me back from getting out of this rut?
Andreyich. I didn't mean that there should be laws against saying such thing. I meant that there are some positions which are so vile that it would be best if people didn't believe in them.


These are only positions you disagree with though. Sure to you these things seem vile but is the rule about what is vile set by you or someone else?
Perhaps it is set by someone whose religion disagrees with gay people, they would believe that such thoughts are so corrupt that it would be best if people didn't believe them.
Perhaps it is set by someone who believes that children born with disabilities live such difficult lives that it is evil to put them and their families through the pain of their life and it would be best if people didn't believe otherwise.

The point is that whilst you might know a great deal of people who agree with you it may also be that you hold positions that count as vile to someone else. Your post was written objectively 'there are some positions which are so vile' is a statement of fact, not belief. In its correct subjective terms what you said reads as:

>There are some positions which I find so vile that I think it would be best if people didn't believe in them.

And perhaps now you can see where the problem is with that. I understand what you're saying but it isn't something we can apply to the real world.
A strong economy is important whatever style I'm playing, I usually go with a random nation as it forces you to change your gameplay a little.

If I start off too close to someone I'll go for an early war since I know it will have to happen sooner or later and then the tactics depend on the geography really. A larger exposed border with an enemy means I put more into military where a bottle neck city means I only need a few units around.

In the end money wins, you can buy military units when invaded or buildings in peace time. Sometimes I buy settlers early on in the game so my cities can grow.

Religion is one of the best ways to ensure that sort of income if you choose the right bonuses.

I've won domination and cultural victories, never been very good with getting the voted in as world leader though.
Lio eyed up the orc, not one to be trifled with it seemed.

"I once walked halls not so dissimilar to these." He lifted his arms as he spoke, indicating the cavernous room in which they stood. "Alas those halls have long fallen to time, its rooms littered with half-starts and writers block."

After a long stare it seemed the orc was satisfied and Lio was instead face to face with a human.

"Well met, greeter of the guild." He offered his hand for the greeter to shake. "Fantasy with a preference for magic, swords and dragons. Sci-fi too, the vastness of space and the pushing of frontiers is enough to feed even the most hungry of imaginations." The greeter giggled with his words and wished him well...or at least it seemed that way to Lio.
The cavernous hall echoed with the sound as the thick doors of oak - worlds start and opportunity - swung open. The walls scaled up out of sight, imagination the only limit, a ceiling so high that clouds could form, that birds could fly. Tables of strategy, love, war and peace lay scattered around, worlds slowly building on their surfaces - guild members adding to their construction until they themselves became a part.

Lio had, finally, reached the Guild.
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