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Apple Zone / Re: Hey, I'm writing a thing about RPG games, LARPS and safe spaces

« on: April 22, 2013, 02:45:20 am »

Roger, I dig the Table Nazi rules. Mostly because I've had some pretty godawful sessions that went completely off the rails due to table chatter.

I should probably post the Player Character Horrible Death Chart.

And the Grudge Monster Rules.

Yes, please.

Pixie, are you writing this as a "as a game master, this is what you do," or "as a player this is what you do," or both?  The dynamic is a lot different.

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Apple Zone / Re: So...

« on: April 20, 2013, 04:19:49 am »

I am working fantastically late, and I get a call from the wife.  A swarm of killer bees has attached itself to the front of my house.  In other words, the entire front side of my house is a massive poisonous carpet of ANGRY.

Which I kind of dig.

But she called the exterminator.

But he can't get there til tomorrow morning.

So I'm going over the back fence tonight.

See, that's what happens when you cram all of your nature into little pockets, it gets PISSED...

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Apple Zone / Re: Conquest of the Planet of the Bride of the Son of the Return of the Open Bar

« on: April 16, 2013, 11:14:14 pm »

Tell me, Roger, after however many failed relationships did you reach a point where you were, like, "Fuck it, I don't need the bullshit. I'm finally in a place where I'm happy enough being single"? Or  words to that effect?

I'm just asking because I had a twofold thing going on that I think cracked the code.

1) I became comfortable in my own skin

2) I raised the bar of what I'd accept in a relationship to a level which was purposefully so ridiculously high as to make a future relationship impossible.

... or so I thought

None, really.  Most of my prior relationships ended more with a bang than a whimper.  You could see it coming, but it wasn't a decision made, rather than an event.

But you are correct.  Until you're happy with yourself, I don't think you can really be happy with someone else.

Truth. I spent a while after moving out before I was ready to even THINK about dating (in more than an abstract, "I'm bloody well tired of sleeping alone" kind of way, anyway).  I had a brief attempt (come to think if it, so brief it didn't even really rate mentioning, here), then things clicked with the current SO.  A year, plus, and we haven't had any disagreement bigger than, "No, *I* am buying dinner, tonight, damnit."

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Apple Zone / Re: Conquest of the Planet of the Bride of the Son of the Return of the Open Bar

« on: April 12, 2013, 12:05:33 pm »

Disclaimer: I snooped the NYEX's phone.  I felt lousy about it when I did it, and worse when I found exactly what I had expected to find.

She most likely did it because, yes, she is insecure.  Assuming, for the moment, that she has Baden screwed over at least once in the past (who hasn't?), this is understandable.  She doesn't know how to deal with it, and you having conversations with your ex aggravated it.  (Note, I think it is awesome you still have a cordial relationship with your ex.)

You were clear, you thought.  She missed the message.  This was a communication breakdown.

You are justifiably upset.  She was (not knowing her,  I am speculating, here) acting to deal with an unaddressed insecurity.  She handled it wrong.

Express to her that snooping in your phone is disrespectful, and you won't tolerate it.  If you are party with showing her the conversations, tell her that if she wants to see, you will show her.  Tell her that, more than the snooping, you are worried that she doesn't trust you, and see if you can work through that.

I'd call it a first major fight, and see if it's recoverable.

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Think for Yourself, Schmuck! / Re: Redemption

« on: April 11, 2013, 06:45:44 pm »

Seems to me that defining anybody by their behavior in any one area is a mistake.

Can Wallace be forgiven for his actions because he later repented?  I suppose that might depend on what to undo the harm he caused.  Did the fact that he was a situationist mean he was an all-round shitty human being?  Quite possible that he was a decent husband, good father, and feed stay dogs.

Same with Assenge, having the balls to do one positive thing doesn't make him a decent human being, particularly if the accusations against him are true.

Humans are human, everyone is a mix of shades of grey.  How it balances out can be a master of perspective, especially where things run close to even.  Hitler may have been kind to dogs, but, in general, he is usually considered a pretty shitty human.

Of course, what makes him a shitty human in the eyes of many people makes him a hero in the eyes of others.  Perspective.

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Apple Zone / Re: Women: An Important Announcement Concerning Men and Their Behavior

« on: April 11, 2013, 04:08:18 pm »

OMG EVERY TIME I DID TEH SECKS I KILLED A BRAIN

This made me make giggle.  A lot.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: "Stupid wingnut says something stupid" thread

« on: April 11, 2013, 12:45:27 pm »

But don't they want Jesus to come back?

I'm confused by Christian eschatology as interpreted by morons.

Hell, no, they don't.  If Jesus comes back, he might just decide to tell them what he REALLY meant.  I suspect a lot of this particular type, on some level, realize that this might, for them, be a BAD THING.

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Apple Zone / Re: Another bizarre structure made by bored people 4000 years ago.

« on: April 11, 2013, 10:12:32 am »

Actually, it's probably a collapsed tomb.

Water can do that.

Possible.  Now that they've found it, it's a sure bet that somebody is gonna go fuck with it.  There's grant money to be had!

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Apple Zone / Re: Conquest of the Planet of the Bride of the Son of the Return of the Open Bar

« on: April 11, 2013, 09:59:45 am »

Got the phone call about an hour before I left work, friend's baby looks to be finally on the way.  Poor woman has been in early labor since Monday morning, it's now Wednesday afternoon, about time, right?

I go over after work, send them off to the hospital.  Spend a couple hours sitting on their eldest (the other two kids being farmed out to family friends for the duration), and crash out on the couch.

5AM, front door opens.  They both walk in, no baby, yet.  Apparently, "it just stopped."

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Apple Zone / Re: Women: An Important Announcement Concerning Men and Their Behavior

« on: April 11, 2013, 09:56:13 am »

Whether Roger's right or not, I might as well give up because I'm never going to understand them either way.

I don't understand my cats, either.  (It's three in the morning, why the FUCK are they tearing around the apartment like their tails are on fire while I'm trying to SLEEP, for example.)

I make allowances for the fact that their brains are the size of walnuts, that they haven't the foggiest clue why I'm mad when they scarf an entire bowl of food and then hurl on the couch (again!), and that they are incapable of changing their own goddamned litter box, and we get along just fine.

Might be pretty much the same theory, actually...

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Apple Zone / Re: ARRRRRRRG!

« on: April 11, 2013, 09:51:17 am »

Ok, a small spark happened in my head.  I gotta lotta shit to do, so fractured sentences.

Constitution was written with 13 states and 2.5M people.  Land mass went as far west as Mississippi river.

Worked pretty well.

US now 300M+, 50 states, and a land mass more than twice original size.

Not working well.

Solution: Break up North America into four new countries.

or

Group country into four states, and those states have principalities with the same shape as the current US states.

When I was working on a scifi book a while back this was part of the back story. New England has very little in common with Arizona, and while I'm sure we could be perfectly cordial neighbors, I don't think living in the same house is working out.

dont leave me alone with these people

You could escape (you KNOW we'd put up barbed wire and shit, first thing, right?) and come live up here, if you weren't afraid of all the nature we let run loose up here.

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Jesus fuck. Is this for real?

« on: April 10, 2013, 11:45:17 pm »

If this involves firing people off into space, I approve.

I have a list.  Targeting is pretty optional...

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Apple Zone / Re: Women: An Important Announcement Concerning Men and Their Behavior

« on: April 10, 2013, 11:40:39 pm »

Been wanting to respond to this all day, but trying to type on the Derp-phone was making me cross-eyed, and if the quotes get longer than the window is long, it refuses to scroll.   

Roger, you may not know this because you are an awesomely stand-up guy, with principles, and you don't take peoples shit, but there are so many guys out there who don't have their heads on straight.

There are many guys out there who have no idea what they are thinking at all, and in an effort to take control will shit all over you in ways that are as passive as they are confusing. Many guys out there like to play head games, and lead you on, and fuck with your head until you are screaming and then they ask hurt, betrayed, why you are screaming.

But women do that too...

Maybe its me. 

None of these things contradict anything I've said.

We are precisely as we appear to be if you look at us the way we behave, not the way you'd like us to be.

The trouble, for me, starts when some asshole (Yes, I'm thinking of the NYEX, specifically) decides that he KNOWS the way he's planning to behave will get him the sort of ass-kicking he richly deserves, and decides to sneak around, lie, and otherwise conceal the fact that he's being a douchebag.

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Apple Zone / Re: Another bizarre structure made by bored people 4000 years ago.

« on: April 10, 2013, 11:36:29 pm »

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17688598-mysterious-stone-structure-found-beneath-sea-of-galilee?lite

Not sure if I'd define a big-ass pile of rocks as a "structure," but, that is pretty cool.

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Apple Zone / Re: Okay, it's been 6 months. HOLY NAMES™ on request.

« on: April 10, 2013, 05:40:29 pm »

I am not who I was back when I got my old one.

Hit me.

Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues.

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Will properly affix when not on my Derphone