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American, not African American?

Well, if you think about it, slavery did have good outcomes. One, Economically, slavery was very beneficial to the landowners for whom they worked. Since they did not have to pay wages (although some did provide basic necessities) they enjoyed a larger bottom line (profit) This speaks to political advantages. Directly or indirectly, these profits were used to build the infrastructure of countries that had slavery. Two, it helped out the New World alot. I mean, slavers helped grew the population in the New World- 9.4 and 12 million arrived in the New World. The rich and wealthy people wouldn't give up anything and travel to the New World as well. And three, it founded the cultures, traditions, and the customs of slaves. Where would we be without jazz, folk tales, and many other famous things?

Such there were tons of very bad things that happened towards slaves and changed them forever; but, you got to think deep in this topic. Since the concept of "slavery" is as old as man himself and has not been limited to any race or class of people throughout history, you might well say that, socially speaking, this practice is the foundation for even modern laborers. Those of us who work for someone other than ourselves contribute greatly to the wealth of only a small percentage of our population here in the US.

(Again, I'm not racism, just saying the facts).

All in a Day's Work: A Superhero RP interest check and signups

Name

Daniel Geyser 'The Vigilante'.

Age

Thirty-One.

Gender

Male.

Personality

The Vigilante is a ‘control freaks’ in a way that has nothing to do with the usual coercive or authoritarian connotations of the term. In the same way that children delight in making model trains go forward and back by moving a switch, he loves making complicated things like computers do nifty stuff for them. But it has to be their nifty stuff.

The Vigilante doesn't like tedium, non-determinism, or most of the fussy, boring, ill-defined little tasks that go with maintaining a normal existence. Accordingly, they tend to be careful and orderly in their intellectual lives and chaotic elsewhere. The code will be beautiful, even if their desks are buried in 3 feet of crap.

He is very weakly motivated by conventional rewards such as social approval or money. The Vigilante tends to be attracted by challenges and excited by interesting toys, and to judge the interest of work or other activities in terms of the challenges offered and the toys he gets to play with.

Skills

The Vigilante major and important skill is the ability to hack to anything that is modern day technology; however, he can't hack into anything that doesn't run on electrical. Since he is a well-known hacker, he uses his education from the State University of New York and the shooting skills that he practiced within the guns ranges of Kentucky.

Abilities

The Vigilante is able to shoot and aim a pistol at any given time. He is also able to drive almost any kind of vehicles, expect from motorcycles. He is also able to do parkour and run at average speeds. He is able to use any technology within the world, that is hackable and easy to get it. But that doesn't count from robotic characters and advanced technology.

Equipment

The Vigilante is able to hack into everything from ATMs to stoplights within a busy street with his Galaxy S4, that he turned into a 'mini hacking computer'. Of course it cost a lot of time and money to make his phone into the hacker's best tool. It also has a 'water proof' phone case on it to make such that it doesn't break during his adventures.

Yet, he always carries around his pistol in case of any gun battles within the city. The pistol is a Browning® 1911-22 Compact Rimfire Pistol, which he got from a Kentucky gun shop. He also has two clips of the pistol, just as a safely feature. And he carries around a Smith Wesson Collapsible Baton, that is used from melee combat.

Brief Back-story

Daniel Geyser was born in a safe community with his middle class family, the Geysers. The family had a history of corruption before and after Daniel was born. The father, Jackson Geyser was released from prison after a fraud that torn people's lives up. The money they got was all even stolen or were from their frauds and they spent it on Daniel. Later on during the 90s, his mother and father were arrested from an attempted murder on an elderly couple in Los Angels. They were found guilty and sentenced to life without parole and little Daniel was sent off to his aunt's home in Kentucky.

Later in his teen years, Daniel was an outcast at his local high schools and loved to read and be on the computer. He was smart in math, science, and engineering class. He pasted high school with a GPA of 4.1 and moved to New York City and went to State University of New York to become a engineer. Daniel then met Emma Smith outside of a cafe shop and they talked about their classes. They fell in love with each other like lovers in a drive in theater and spent more time with each other from four years until Daniel and Emma graduated. They moved in together and lived out their lives from two more years until one fatal night, that gave birth to The Vigilante.

They were at home, eating their dinner, as someone came to the door and knocked on it. Daniel answered it and was hit with a metal baseball bat and landed onto the ground. Emma went to the door as soon as she heard Daniel hitting the floor and she was grabbed and pushed towards the wall. The robbers searched the house from any that can make them get rich and tied both Daniel and Emma up and put them next to the couch. A couple of minutes later, and they come back from Emma and grabbed her as she cried to be let go. Daniel was shouting no and begged with the robbers to not take her and one of them kicked him in the chest. He somehow got the ropes from his hands to be loose and saw the gun on the table.

He grabbed the gun and shot the two guys near the doorway and rushed towards the van, where Emma was kept. And then he shot at the driver as he drove away and it caused him to crash into a parked car. Emma was hurt due to the crash, but she wasn't harmed inside the house with Daniel. As from the robbers, three died due to the guy shot wounds and one lost his ability to walk. Ever since the day happened, Emma and Daniel are still together and she is going to have a baby boy in two months. From Daniel, he felt like he was powerful with a gun and he wanted to stop the crimes in his hometown. So he became 'The Vigilante' and studied on how to hack after he found out his parent's past. Even known 'The Vigilante' is a hero, some people still call him a villain due to his usage of the pistol and the deadly combat skills. Daniel doesn't care about what he is called as long as he gets to save the day.

All in a Day's Work: A Superhero RP interest check and signups

I want to join, but can my character be in the middle between superheroes and supervillains?

Democracy in Action: A Political RP

I'm willing to give this a shot.

American, not African American?

Magic Magnum said
Yes, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be allowed to at least discuss it.

So you want racism out of history books? Racism is apart of history as war is, it's bad but it played their role during the time of man. I'm not from racism and all (once more). But my stand on this topic is that you say "African-American" as a former way and you say "Black" in a informal way. Think of it as the Spanish way of saying 'you', there is tú, the informal way of saying you; 'usted' is the formal way of saying it. In short, use "African-American" as a way to show manners and use "Black" as a normal means of talking.

Is tinychat dead?

Azarthes said
We moved on to Aragorn's IRC obviously

link?

American, not African American?

Kidd said
...So because racism isn't as extreme in America as it is in other countries, we shouldn't be upset about it? It is still an issue and people are still suffering from racism in the US. They're still being denied opportunities and being because of their race and you don't find it sensible to have an issue with that just because racism is "worse" elsewhere?

Of course it's an issue in our country, but not a major one to America. They need to fix the economy, the Elections are coming as well, and many other issues that was served to America. I'm against racism towards everyone, but you can't get raid of it forever. People are going to be who they want to be or are not matter what you do to fix it. That's including being racism.

Of course we can decrease the number of racism, but we can't wipe it all forever. It's like smoking, you can't make it disappear no matter what you do.

World in Revolution: 1861 Mk II

Pepperm1nts said
Beep boop, still around.

You should post something about defending Prussia or something.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Dinh AaronMk said
It's in part called criticism. In some form or another it's all over, and the point where it really goes south is when and if it involves personal attacks on the person, and not to look at the idea and to raise a concern. A critic in that regard is probably one of the most healthiest things that can happen. If he were any other person - and if I was honestly any more evil than I am - he could abuse the loopholes in the concept to his content and really damage the RP. I don't know if you're trying to refer to any instance of me going in to critique a concept or not, but I'm sure I can defend myself since I do have legitimate concerns when I do break something down and turn it around.

Throwing monkey wrenches about may at times be the reason I step into something, but there are moments I decide the RP is good enough to stick around in and I want to see it better. What really falls short is when the responsible parties for the RP's administration doesn't show up to discuss the point. I do have my concerns, and I do want to see a loophole closed.

I could just as well totally gore the entire thing based on a consistent lapse of explanation that everyone appears to unironically be taking at face-value without realizing the open sore that it is.

And discussion is healthy. It could affirm and reaffirm a decision or help highlight an oversight in the RP's lore or mechanics. I'm no stranger to revisionism in that respect. But to respect something as a final draft and affirm that it's solid as iron to me makes the entire structure brittle.

I agree with you on improving peoples' writing skill and all, but you're attacking those who don't know/have time to learn how to improve their writing skills. Most of them have school or real life that causes them to not make a detailed character/RP. Plus, you can't change Free to become Casual or Advanced-like. There is a reason why Free is here and it's to offer those who don't have the time to make detailed posts to roleplay. It's like changing the way of a burger, you can't and will never change no matter what you try to do.

World in Revolution: 1861 Mk II

Me too.