king
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Post by king on Nov 10, 2015 17:16:16 GMT -5
congratulations, dick-sniffer. in my hastily written, unedited tirade on the misusage of literally, you discovered a lack of quotes.
allow me to send you a cookie filled with suspiciously slimy frosting
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king
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Post by king on Nov 10, 2015 17:20:59 GMT -5
you can use your tainted feces as ink and lecture the kids in that alleyway behind your library, you lil cumdumpster.
then we can fight. how should we exchange addresses?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2015 17:22:40 GMT -5
i think we broke king
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calk
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Post by calk on Nov 10, 2015 17:24:45 GMT -5
you can use your tainted feces as ink and lecture the kids in that alleyway behind your library, you lil cumdumpster. then we can fight. how should we exchange addresses? What's wrong with that fecal matter ink you were talking about earlier? I thought it was evocative. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2015 17:25:28 GMT -5
we're still talking about Ruke, right?
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dcdc
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Post by dcdc on Nov 10, 2015 17:28:58 GMT -5
I literally can't remember.
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king
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Post by king on Nov 10, 2015 17:43:41 GMT -5
no, bitch. ruke isn't the problem anymore - in fact, he's a fucking patriot. ruke's player is no longer bound by the bleak, unshakable prison that veterans and staff have placed over their disenfranchised heads. he simply lives. i fucking admire the man.
it's the jaded thirty year olds who couldn't make it as authors, the ones who eventually realized they weren't diamonds, but square, horribly browned pieces of copper gathered out of the rubbish that comprises the countries infesting this planet. they learned and they now live vicariously through some absolutely meaningless lines of text, struggling to overcome the horrible reality of life.
those with egos float to the top of this cesspool, because that's what you need as a writer - an ego. these egos collide and neither staff nor veteran can coexist in the prison they've created for themselves.
we're talking about the real problem, not ruke. you glassy-eyed, scum-sucking dickmunches were just children when you started, and you thought you were good for a kid. excellent. then you realized you weren't. it wasn't Armageddon or the other disenfranchised players that rose to the ranks of staff, it was your shallow, meaningless existence. mediocrity at its finest.
bitterness is what holds this game back, and instead of moving past it, you wallow in it. disgusting.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2015 17:43:59 GMT -5
we have the technology we can rebuild him |
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king
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Post by king on Nov 10, 2015 17:45:02 GMT -5
don't you ever misuse "literally" again.
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delerak
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Post by delerak on Nov 10, 2015 18:21:08 GMT -5
This guy is fucking awesome.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2015 18:25:38 GMT -5
one of us one of us one of us link |
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dcdc
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Post by dcdc on Nov 10, 2015 18:41:31 GMT -5
one of us one of us one of us link |
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Post by sirra on Nov 10, 2015 20:42:26 GMT -5
Has anyone in this thread criticized Ruke? I think even the dimmest troglodyte knows the man is a fucking martyr for keeping a unit running for twenty in-game years despite overwhelming neglect from staff. Dude was always available to recruit and run training sessions, and take people on patrols.
It's not his fault he couldn't do more. He was only a sergeant in the Kuraci Fist. An organization where you apparently need to be a lieutenant, just to watch over the well. The only Kuraci family member for a long time was a junior agent (I don't know if this has changed in the past couple months) who didn't even have authority to take out the argosy.
But really, I don't even know why I'm typing this. No one is seriously disparaging anyone for making the best of their shitty, thankless leadership role under Arm's current staffing climate.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2015 22:44:43 GMT -5
Ohhhh. I think I know who you are now, King. I fucking love you and welcome you to these boards.
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bastilleangel
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Post by bastilleangel on Nov 10, 2015 23:04:08 GMT -5
*quickly sidesteps the "literally" not-discussion* Yes, we're talking about both new players and older players, and how they can achieve the engaging level of play people crave - interesting, layered characters that realize they're in a game primarily focused on interactions with others. Jcarter mentioned there'd probably be better feedback if a thread was specifically created for that purpose and I agree, but I'll let somebody else make it if they'd like to offer constructive feedback. Just off the top of my head, though: - Don't bottle your entire personality up in thinks and feels. Shine. The thinks and feels are there for depth, but the foundations need to be visible to the public.- Take a look at your character and describe him or her without using features or clothing. Does the character have personality? (Yes, the guy used it in his Star Wars reviews, but it's a lesson taught in creative writing, too). Take a look at the characters next to you and do the same. How does each stand out purely by personality? - Try clichés. Try the flashy character. Be the villain, too. Get outside of your comfort zone. - It's a permadeath game, but don't be afraid to take risks on occasion. If you and others are willing to take those risks, there can be a wacky adventure awaiting the survivors. - You can create natural conflict by having a character stray from documentation in some areas, but, as Marauder Joe mentioned in RAT, for every piece you oppose, there should be five you follow rigorously (you're a human fucking elves, but you still fear and hate magick, bow before the Templarate, etc.). It's harder to nudge them IG, but if you're going to take issue with the RP of players on the boards, you should be just as willing to offer your (hopefully not volatile) opinions on what can be done to adjust and mold their RP for the environment. I bolded the part I thought was particularly on-point. Quietly-charming characters with vast inner lives can make for fascinating protagonists in, say, a novel. A MUD is really its own creature, though, equal parts novel, play, interactive story, and video game (and I'm sure I'm missing some other elements). Character interaction, perhaps even more than conflict, is the engine that drives the whole damn thing. I've been accused before of not being able to play a properly introverted character, but it's more I don't feel they're optimal for contributing to the larger game, at least in terms of the social webs that are hopefully thriving and make up the raw material for relationships, politics, and other yumminess. |
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