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Normal?

"Normal" is a highly subjective term, but I'll define it like this:

1. Has no physical or mental health problems, nor any conditions that would improve their health.
2. Has an IQ of 100
3. They fit their culture's expectations to a T.

Being normal is both under and overrated in different parts of society. This is due to the Anticonformist Effect: rebellion is now a cultural expectation. Your typical Yuppie in the office or 50's sitcom family would actually be very nonconformist in today's world. So you're stuck choosing between being a hipster like everybody else or working for the man all by yourself.

This leads to interesting phenomena. For example, when the political right controls the government, democrats suddenly hold anti-authoritarian beliefs. When the political left takes control, the political right suddenly tries to appeal to anti-authority.

Another effect is that any obscure organization or lifestyle (a small business or lesser known political position or a fad diet, ect) might suddenly find people rushing to it, in support of their small, independent nature. This will cause them to move away from obscurity and into popularity...which causes them to be abandoned because they've 'sold out'. Basically, this is like somebody feeding a puppy because it's cute and little, and then abandoning it when it grows up because it's no longer cute and little anymore. Or somebody intentionally going out of their way to damage their relationship with their spouse because true love is boring.

Anyways, what I recommend is this: Set your path independently of culture, and then try to get people to conform to you. If it's unpopular, try to popularize it. If it's popular, make it universal. If it's universal, then try to expand on it.

Space Opera RP

Anybody?

Half-Life?

I might be.

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The Earthlings a film that opened my eyes

Saying that "Humans are cruel" isn't a truly accurate statement. It implies a differentiation between humans and other organisms. It's not that humans are crueler than other organisms, but that nature herself is much crueler than what many people would anticipate. For that matter, generalizing humanity is kind of a hard thing to do. If you've met one ant, you've met them all. However, the human brain facilitates minds as wildly different as Adolf Hitler and Buddha.
And back to other organisms, many animals regularly commit acts of cruelty that would be unthinkable to most human cultures. For example, Chimpanzees eat infants in their own species. Also, try hugging a panda bear.

Anyways, on the topic of human cruelty to animals, it's obviously wrong to burn kittens for our sadistic amusement or even pull the legs off of a spider for fun. Now, I for one believe that animals exist for the sole function to provide for humanity. As such, your average dairy is not a pointlessly cruel endeavor, and ultimately the right of humanity. However, something like forcing pit bulls to fight each other to the death and then electrocuting the loser is no longer utilization of resources, but throwing fuel into the fire of sadistic urges.

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Space Opera RP

I was thinking I'd like to do an RP in the Space Opera genre, combining elements of both Military Sci-Fi (like BSG Reimagined) and more raygun-gothy style Sci-Fi (like Star Trek).
My idea is that Earth has been destroyed (long ago, mind you) by a vastly powerful alien race (basically, the Borg and those War Of The World Aliens combined into one). However, humans managed to evacuate and colonized another star system: The Odin System. Human civilization is finally starting to rebuild. Space has turned into a frontier, similar to the American wild west. However, human civilization is on the verge of civil war, as anarchist insurgent groups begin to predate on human colonies at will and spread chaos and lawlessness where they please.
To make matters worse, there are rumors that the Aliens that wiped out Earth long ago may be returning to attack the rest of the human race.

We'd all be members of a star ship with different occupations. Said ship is a scouting vessel, tasked with doing a little bit of everything, but most of all for exploration. The purpose of said exploration is to find resources and ecosystems that are considered ideal for colonization, or to find groups of people to operate as trading partners.

Would anybody be interested in this plot?

Some ideas for occupations:

Pilot: Fly a cool starfighter that comes out of our ship. Great for scouting and ship-to-ship combat. Or you can be a 'ground pilot', who drives land vehicles on away missions. Example: Starbuck, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker (to some extent).

Tactical Officer: Tactical officers control various functions on the ship, such as the shields, teleporters, guns, and tractor beams.

Exploration Officers: Go down to strange new worlds and seek out new life. This often involves beaming down onto planets and searching for artifacts or collecting samples of alien organisms. They often carry energy weapons as opposed to firearms. Examples would include Samus Aran and pretty much the entire cast of Star Trek that goes on away missions.

Engineering: As you know, things break. As such, somebody has to maintain, fix, and build machines on board the ship, otherwise, things break. Example: Geordi La Forge

Programmer: One who programs. They have various functions, such as hacking and sabotaging enemy machines, and programming electronic systems.

Security Officers: They operate as police and paramilitary ground units. In contrast to Exploration Officers, Security Officers usually use firearms rather than energy weapons. When something needs to be arrested or killed, Security Officers are who to call. Example: Commander Shepard

Medics: Healing people, as a good doctor should. Really, what would a space opera be without their doctor?

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