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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Protests EVERYWHERE
« on: Today at 03:00:18 pm »The protests in Rio:
Shit, that's incredible.
I live in Canada, and I hadn't heard about the EI protests. All the ones here seem to be over shale gas drilling and the oil pipeline. In New Brunswick, judging by the papers, there seems to be a general attitude that we're too poor for fancy government services like a social safety net, and all we need is to cut the fat and whore out our natural resources to bring in business. A while ago, there were some Idle No More protests, but those seem to have died out over the winter. It's really depressing. I get the impression that the spirit of the province has been utterly broken.
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Apple Zone / Re: THE PROBLEM WITH THIS BOARD
« on: Yesterday at 02:15:14 am »FWIW, I initially joined up because I read BIP, and thought that was damned cool.
It was. It was kickass. We should do something like that again. I should do something like that, I wasn't around for BIP.
But Nigel has a good point. If I recall correctly, there was so much more fluff on this board around the time of BIP. I think it got people involved more, because it felt more like a community. There was lots of writing, sure, but it felt like yeah, you could be friends with these people. You could work with them. I kinda wish I could have been as mature then as I am now, because frankly, I was a shitposter as a noob. I caught flak from Roger all the time, and deserved it, and I reacted badly. Rather than standing up and being a biped, I stopped talking at all. And I had personal reasons for that, but I don't want to whine about it at the moment.
We just did, right out in the open and everything. It's called BIP 2013 and Dimo is working on the layout right now.
Yeah, I remember that. I don't know how BIP was made, because it's what brought me to this board, but BIP 2013 didn't feel very open. It had its own little subforum, it seemed a bit official to me. There was probably a good reason for it, but it turned me off the project personally. I didn't think I had anywhere near what it took to contribute. This is starting to feel like ineffectual whining to me, though. Nothing more than complaints of my own personal weakness.
Um, BIP had it's own off-site forum.
Ok, then. I was wrong. I'm gonna go take that walk now.
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Apple Zone / Re: THE PROBLEM WITH THIS BOARD
« on: Yesterday at 02:11:15 am »FWIW, I initially joined up because I read BIP, and thought that was damned cool.
It was. It was kickass. We should do something like that again. I should do something like that, I wasn't around for BIP.
But Nigel has a good point. If I recall correctly, there was so much more fluff on this board around the time of BIP. I think it got people involved more, because it felt more like a community. There was lots of writing, sure, but it felt like yeah, you could be friends with these people. You could work with them. I kinda wish I could have been as mature then as I am now, because frankly, I was a shitposter as a noob. I caught flak from Roger all the time, and deserved it, and I reacted badly. Rather than standing up and being a biped, I stopped talking at all. And I had personal reasons for that, but I don't want to whine about it at the moment.
We just did, right out in the open and everything. It's called BIP 2013 and Dimo is working on the layout right now.
Yeah, I remember that. I don't know how BIP was made, because it's what brought me to this board, but BIP 2013 didn't feel very open. It had its own little subforum, it seemed a bit official to me. There was probably a good reason for it, but it turned me off the project personally. I didn't think I had anywhere near what it took to contribute. This is starting to feel like ineffectual whining to me, though. Nothing more than complaints of my own personal weakness.
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Apple Zone / Re: THE PROBLEM WITH THIS BOARD
« on: Yesterday at 02:01:35 am »FWIW, I initially joined up because I read BIP, and thought that was damned cool.
It was. It was kickass. We should do something like that again. I should do something like that, I wasn't around for BIP.
But Nigel has a good point. If I recall correctly, there was so much more fluff on this board around the time of BIP. I think it got people involved more, because it felt more like a community. There was lots of writing, sure, but it felt like yeah, you could be friends with these people. You could work with them. I kinda wish I could have been as mature then as I am now, because frankly, I was a shitposter as a noob. I caught flak from Roger all the time, and deserved it, and I reacted badly. Rather than standing up and being a biped, I stopped talking at all. And I had personal reasons for that, but I don't want to whine about it at the moment.
EDIT: If you'd like, Nigel, I could take up shitposting again. It'll be ugly, but maybe it could help. Having a terrible sense of humor is better than having none at all, I think.
Also, I haven't seen any talk of memetics on here in forever. Back when I showed up, those were like the entire focus of the board, to the point I could have sworn Discordia was less about chaos and more about the memespace, and using belief and subjectivity as a tool. Did everyone just decide it was icky and reeked of khaos mahdgickque, or did people just lose interest in it?
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Apple Zone / Re: THE PROBLEM WITH THIS BOARD
« on: Yesterday at 01:30:15 am »I know I'm one of the people Dok's talking about. I should have done something. I have no justification.
The problem with me is that I guess I'm a bit slow. By the time I've thought of something to say, somebody's already said it, several pages back. When I do post, it's always a statement of the obvious. There's really no need for me. That, and I've never really felt like I belonged here. For about a year now, it's been occurring to me, on and off, that maybe I'm not really much of a Discordian. And maybe I never was. I mean, I like you guys. If I didn't, I wouldn't hang around and view. And I like Discordia itself, it's just that I feel like it doesn't really suit me. I don't dance the dance of chaos. I don't act. I plan, and plan, and plan, and never do anything. And what do I do when I notice it? I sit around and observe. I let it happen. I know it's wrong, but I do it anyway, and I don't have an excuse. I guess the only explanation I can give is that I'm tired, and bitter, and humorless. And for that, I apologize. Because I'm not just a bad Discordian. I'm a bad human being.
1. Justifications are for Catholics. We do not hand out penance, here. The idea is to become something different. Better. That's what all this shit is about, when it comes right down to cases.
2. QUIT YOUR GODDAMN SNIVELING. Discordianism, like everything else is LEARNED BEHAVIOR. You get 65-100 years on this mudball, and believe you me, it goes by FAST. Sitting and watching seems easier now, but just wait til you're old and that's ALL you can do. IT CAN ALL START WITH ONE SIMPLE TASK: GO OUTSIDE FOR A WALK. Then find something DURING that walk that INTERESTS YOU. If you need instructions beyond that point, ask Nigel, ECH, or myself. But GODDAMMIT, stop wasting your youth.
No sniveling occurred. But I see your point. For the last year, there's been a constant conflict in my mind. It's the main reason I haven't done anything beyond washing dishes and hanging out with stoners, like getting an education. I've been framing it as pragmatism vs. idealism, or maybe pragmatism vs. imagination. All the things I want to do are useless, impractical. And all the useful things I could be doing are things I have no passion for whatsoever. But maybe I shouldn't be calling it pragmatism vs. imagination. Maybe I should be calling it cowardice vs. courage.
I will be taking that walk, though.
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Apple Zone / Re: THE PROBLEM WITH THIS BOARD
« on: Yesterday at 01:13:56 am »
I know I'm one of the people Dok's talking about. I should have done something. I have no justification.
The problem with me is that I guess I'm a bit slow. By the time I've thought of something to say, somebody's already said it, several pages back. When I do post, it's always a statement of the obvious. There's really no need for me. That, and I've never really felt like I belonged here. For about a year now, it's been occurring to me, on and off, that maybe I'm not really much of a Discordian. And maybe I never was. I mean, I like you guys. If I didn't, I wouldn't hang around and view. And I like Discordia itself, it's just that I feel like it doesn't really suit me. I don't dance the dance of chaos. I don't act. I plan, and plan, and plan, and never do anything. And what do I do when I notice it? I sit around and observe. I let it happen. I know it's wrong, but I do it anyway, and I don't have an excuse. I guess the only explanation I can give is that I'm tired, and bitter, and humorless. And for that, I apologize. Because I'm not just a bad Discordian. I'm a bad human being.
The problem with me is that I guess I'm a bit slow. By the time I've thought of something to say, somebody's already said it, several pages back. When I do post, it's always a statement of the obvious. There's really no need for me. That, and I've never really felt like I belonged here. For about a year now, it's been occurring to me, on and off, that maybe I'm not really much of a Discordian. And maybe I never was. I mean, I like you guys. If I didn't, I wouldn't hang around and view. And I like Discordia itself, it's just that I feel like it doesn't really suit me. I don't dance the dance of chaos. I don't act. I plan, and plan, and plan, and never do anything. And what do I do when I notice it? I sit around and observe. I let it happen. I know it's wrong, but I do it anyway, and I don't have an excuse. I guess the only explanation I can give is that I'm tired, and bitter, and humorless. And for that, I apologize. Because I'm not just a bad Discordian. I'm a bad human being.
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RPG Ghetto / Re: Coyote's random RPG ideas
« on: June 11, 2013, 05:30:28 pm »Mind if I throw one in?
if it's bouncing off of one of mine go ahead.
Not really, but the first reminded me of an idea I had for a post-apocalyptic game in which huge asteroids had struck the earth in the middle of World War I. Europe reverted to a feudal system and there were things like knights walking the earth with Brodie helmets and Lee-Enfields, trying to survive the horrors of feudal trench warfare and the Lovecraftian things that were living in the asteroids. Mechanical knowledge from the industrial era was revered, and machines that still worked were cherished as holy relics. I figured the main action of the game could take place on the British mainland. The idea was silly as fuck, but also grim in a way that only this image can properly convey: http://michaelkutsche.deviantart.com/art/The-Trench-94147716
I figured I'd run it in a heavily modified variant of D20 Modern, or maybe Pathfinder, but I couldn't figure out a way to balance it properly or handle pre-decimalized currency, so I scrapped it.
Pretty similar in some of the flavor. Just use PF for most things and sub in d20 Modern rules for ancient tech. That's pretty much what I would I do if was planing on running PF. And screw trying to be balanced from the beginning. If things get unbalanced adjust fire and carry on.
Pre-decimal currency?
Like British pounds?
http://www.pomian.demon.co.uk/coin.htm
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Since all the currency in Pathfinder is decimalized, I couldn't just pull a simple substitution. However, I could scavenge the purchasing rules from d20 Modern and replace owned currency with a Wealth skill. I think I could just use Appraise for that; it never gets used anyway and if Paizo could get away with unifying all the acrobatics skills, I can probably get away with unifying the financial ones. The only challenge here will be sitting down and figuring out the purchase DCs for all the items.
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Apple Zone / Re: I...I think I'm in love.
« on: June 03, 2013, 02:35:11 am »
I predict alien sharks next. Or possibly mecha-shark.
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RPG Ghetto / Re: Coyote's random RPG ideas
« on: May 14, 2013, 04:18:55 am »Mind if I throw one in?
if it's bouncing off of one of mine go ahead.
Not really, but the first reminded me of an idea I had for a post-apocalyptic game in which huge asteroids had struck the earth in the middle of World War I. Europe reverted to a feudal system and there were things like knights walking the earth with Brodie helmets and Lee-Enfields, trying to survive the horrors of feudal trench warfare and the Lovecraftian things that were living in the asteroids. Mechanical knowledge from the industrial era was revered, and machines that still worked were cherished as holy relics. I figured the main action of the game could take place on the British mainland. The idea was silly as fuck, but also grim in a way that only this image can properly convey: http://michaelkutsche.deviantart.com/art/The-Trench-94147716
I figured I'd run it in a heavily modified variant of D20 Modern, or maybe Pathfinder, but I couldn't figure out a way to balance it properly or handle pre-decimalized currency, so I scrapped it.
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RPG Ghetto / Re: Coyote's random RPG ideas
« on: May 13, 2013, 05:16:20 pm »
Mind if I throw one in?
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Apple Zone / Re: Hyperbole and a Half: motherfucking UPDATE
« on: May 10, 2013, 04:55:43 am »
Yeah, it takes work. Work and discipline, I find. It's weird, but I found a degree of self-discipline actually made me a bit more flexible in my thinking. For me, depression took the form of a rigid dogma, and forcing myself to step back and think "It's just your brain being retarded, take another go at it with logic" tended to totally short it out. Another thought I found helpful when my friends started telling me it was all a choice(the more I think about them, the shittier people they seem to be. I think I'm beginning to detect a pattern here.) was "You can't choose what to feel, but you can choose not to be defeated by it". For now, it's my standby whenever the depression comes back. I just go through the motions as well as I can and ride it out, and it seems to resolve itself a lot more quickly and thoroughly than when I stress out over not being happy enough.
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Or Kill Me / Re: All Justified
« on: May 03, 2013, 10:26:07 am »
Not intended to be allegory for anything, but feel free to read it that way. I'm not sure it really counts as a rant, but I was sick of the contents and needed to vent.
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Or Kill Me / All Justified
« on: May 03, 2013, 04:55:27 am »
Dammit, I hate what I've become. I'm a walking appliance. I can do the work of two men, but I can't smile, or tell a joke, or even laugh at one. I spend all my time at work half-awake, trying to psychoanalyze myself and make up fucking terrible fantasy settings for games that are doubly imaginary, since they'll only ever exist in my own head. I have no education and no idea what I even want out of life. The only friends I ever see in person are filthy borderline cultists that keep pressuring me into joining a hypothetical primitivist settlement that I really don't want anything to do with because I think it's fucking retarded, and it hurts whenever I see them, because it feels like I'm watching them die. I talk to them, but I know on some level I'm just talking to the corpses of the friends I used to have, and what's left is just a pair of puppets, and sometimes I can feel the things inside them reaching out with their tentacles and trying to pull me in. And you know what? They were jerks to begin with. And so was I. So fuck it. It is what it is, and everyone involved deserved it.
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RPG Ghetto / Re: Project Eternity
« on: April 26, 2013, 07:16:58 pm »Liking the creature design for PE so far:
...Batmen? There's a race of batmen? Awesome.