Vilageidiotx

What is your favorite Time period

I like ancient history, or I guess more appropriately history of societies that are only on the cusp of modernization. I don't even know why, but there is just something strangely poetic about that phase in the development of civilization, where society is only just crawling out of tribalism and the first hints of what will become the modern world is starting to appear. I guess it is sort of cliche, but the Greek and Roman worlds always seemed especially interesting. In both of those cases, that marriage between modern and tribal is especially apparent.

But what time would I want to live? Now. I think the best times in history to be alive would be either the last 100 years in the Western World or the 2nd Century AD in the Roman world. I would imagine there is a Chinese equivalent, but I am woefully under-educated when it comes to China.

Smut VS No Smut: Where Do You Stand On the Matter?

I think that it all depends on what works for the story, and that when it comes to storytelling sometimes sex is better than no sex. For instance, if you were in an RP where one of the characters were like The Mad Hatter right above me here, and you were exploring what that character would be like in whatever the context of the RP is, then avoiding 'smut' would be prudish and out of character. On the other hand, if you are RPing about a colony of Shakers fighting off a zombie apocalypse, 'smut' could very quickly hurt what you are trying to do.

Personally, I think the rules of this forum help quite a bit in moderating the use of sexuality exactly as much as it should be moderated, because I feel that sex-scenes have to pretty much always be treated with a light touch. If this were a more culturally advanced world and we had the enlightened view on sexuality that The Mad Hatter has, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. But since the subject is still shrouded in taboos and old social mores, most people will probably react to sex scenes awkwardly. I don't mean that everyone is prudish, but rather that most people will be quick to see sex scenes as silly and cheap.

So what I do is this; don't use sex words. No throbbing cockmonsters or wet pussy-cracks. No nut-fucking, or brown starfish, or triple-fist butternut squashing. Not unless you want the scene to seem awkward or silly, that is. If you want it to be taking seriously, however, you avoid porn-words as much as you can while still making sure it is pretty clear what is happening.

Also I'm losing my will to keep on this set up

Teacher! I stole too many and now I don't know what to do!

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I don't see the point of playing a vidja game if it is a chore. Just drop that shit if you feel like it.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Ah, what a dilemma. Video games be trampling on our 9-5 video game obligations.

What are your thoughts on hand soap

I like soap, but gosh is it a terrible lube.

@BrobyDDark

Use Novocaine. It doesn't work as lubricant per see, but it makes it so you don't notice the prick but for a little stinging sensation.

Also I'm losing my will to keep on this set up

But teacher, all the other kids paired up already and I don't have a procreation partner!

Actually reading people's posts.

I'm currently running a(nother) mystery game in which I've just realised that since there will be clues everywhere, but I won't flag them up in the OoC, if players don't read each others' posts they will literally not know what to do.

@Jig

Good luck.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I never got into it before, so I don't feel the need to now. My video game tastes don't usually stray too far from the sort of things I was into as a teenager, so its pretty much just open-world rpg's and strategy games for me.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Evan, are you still alive?

Blink once for yes or twice for no.