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  1. Last Post Wins

    Where were you anyway? Were you on some kind of crusade against some kind of evil? I was on one, we fought an enemy called "The Thesis" and after 7 months of near-constant warfare I and my two other companions slayed it with lots of stabbing and citations.
  2. Things that make you sad.

    TL;DR: An innocuous post regarding people and our interactions with others put one of my friends into a state of existential dread. Longer version: I have two friends, JM, and L, JM gets tagged in a post about asking what does he remember about person X. JM responds and reposts the thing and he gets a fair number of responses as well. I got tagged so I reposted too and got a modest response from my other friends to and I though might as well tag a few others as well. When it got to my buddy L, that's when things started to go wrong. JM and I posted our best memories with the guy, then we waited to see more... I'ts been 6 hours and nobody else has posted anything yet. See L has an inferiority complex (won't get into too much detail, let's just say he had a rough childhood) and really wants to be a big name achiever in life so he didn't take that response (or lack thereof) very well. I'm currently talking to him right now but let's just say he's starting to sound like one of those annoying stereotypical emo archetypes you see in basically any given anime. I say that but I don't mean to be dismissive about him or his plight (he is my buddy after all) but you know that difficult process where you want to convince someone everything will be alright while they're going through a really dark period of their life? Yeah, L's about 10 feet away from that sort of outlook.
  3. Three Word Game

    in all directions
  4. Things That Make You Happy

    You know I have a thing for Filipiniana (Filipino culture pieces) and I constantly bemoan how tragically lacking the internet (and by extension, ignorantly, the world) is when it comes to finding them. I was gladly proven wrong by one of my former Professors from University when I asked her for help regarding my current course called "Understanding Filipino Art and Culture"; she gave me a gold mine of information of art and literature resources including a Government-Funded 9 volume comprehensive encyclopedia on Filipino Art; and each book is at least 4 inches, but what really made me happy was that the 9th book in that encyclopedia on literature was 5.5-6 inches thick covering over a thousand years of literary history that somehow managed to survive long enough to be written down. I could only rifle through the books for a few minutes each but that was enough to find 15 new documentaries, books, and commentaries on music and literature. So many resources, so much culture preserved. After 3 years of scouring the internet for obscure and hardly verifiable sources I can't be any happier; I was crying while reading everything up from mythology to ghost stories.
  5. Corrupt a Wish

    Granted, Celia and I use the energy from two Blood-Irons (magically enchanted iron samples that store magic) to bring life to a synthetically formed homo-sapiens shell (basically a fully grown human body without a consciousness or soul depending on how you wanna view it) that you occupy but of course something goes awry, and you're alive, but I overestimated the number of Blood-Irons to be used and now you're slightly crazy (a few months of therapy should do ya), and you have magic powers (based on my story's magical laws) that you can't 100% control. What's worse is the spell used to bring you back to life kinda sorta displaced you from time. Don't worry, we'll find you, in a few weeks, hopefully. I wish to find InfiniteRemnant's whereabouts without risking another time distortion or some other form of technobable wrecking time again.
  6. Last Post Wins

    You know in the story I've been writing there's a way to do the whole "smoke bomb ninja vanish" technique but you need some basic understanding of psionics and matter-manipulation to do that. Celia's cousin Theo from Luminaria can dissolve herself using smoke and shadows, retain her consciousness and rematerialize wherever she wants. In fact methinks I should do some research on psionics myself. Anyway, if you really want to learn how that works might as well talk to Celia dude.
  7. Last Post Wins

    Regent: Wait what the actual what?! Lyre's back?! YES! YEEEES! Celia: Who's that? Regent: Old friend of mine from way back when; back again! YAAAAY! *PlotHole plops open* The Old Guard: Hey Lyre! I'm a retired character now, your boy's Regent's taken over for me, go talk to him if you like. Welcome back!
  8. Corrupt a Wish

    Granted; you can increase your metabolism at will to speed up you actions and enter a state where time basically stands still, however the energy demands for this are immense, meaning you need to eat five times the amount of food you would normally consume per meal and go to the bathroom for every 10-25 minutes that you do this action. Also, to activate this power, you need to shout "THE GLOBE!" I wish to know if anyone watches JoJo's Bizarre Adventure here...
  9. Things You Find Amusing

    I don't usually follow the live-action adaptations of Disney films but I find it amusing that people are reacting so negatively to the new "Beast", guys, it only looked that smooth because of the animation style, beast boy will look like he stepped out of the uncanny valley. In fact I really like that they did an overhaul on the character again, this time he actually looks like he has some real power behind him, strength, and more importantly menace. His rougher appearance in the upcoming release looks monstrous in the "powerful animal that can bring you down with a single blow" way. It still looks a lot more menacing and fitting than the Cocteau 1948 version. (Though realistically speaking, I still find that one as the best interpretation of the story)
  10. Last Post Wins

    (Please do use the GURPs tables, roll for 10 effects and pick 3 of your favorites) Regent: Also for the record the last time someone directly hit a win with a pickaxe I found myself inside someone else's nervous system wearing a woman's blouse in the middle of the Siberian rainforest (yes I said "rainforest, hitting the win is weird).
  11. Corrupt a Wish

    Granted, have this cosplay prop I found at a convention a few years ago. It's pretty accurate but... don't expect it to work I wish to see more people participating in the Last Post Wins thread.
  12. Last Post Wins

    [Regent and Celia are a bit further away from the mushroom; the effects of which are only slightly observable to either of them] Regent: ...I think we're missing something here... *thinks for a moment; comes to a realization* Regent: Right... where's that win? *realizes that the win is the rock that he was sitting on the entire time* Regent: Oh... well that explains why it was kinda red-ish... *Random Princess Peach starts to pick away at the win with a pickaxe* Regent: NONONO WAIT DON'T DO THAT; THE LAST TIME WE TRIED WE- *The win explodes in a giant flash of light* (Does anyone have a D&D book with some random effects tables? get a few die and roll me a result if you can)
  13. Things that make you sad.

    The spectre of death hovers us all apparently. Just woke up to news that one of my Filipino language teachers from my early days in college had passed away the night before due to cardiac arrest. May his soul find rest in the heavenly abode.
  14. Corrupt a Wish

    Granted, have a universal thesaurus. No joke, it helps a lot. Though mind the "Dark tongues" section unless you want to suddenly summon some sort of elder god of ether from another dimension. I wish for a copy of the Rosetta Stone.
  15. Three Word Game

    began to scream
  16. What Are You Listening To?

    His gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand
  17. Things that make you sad.

    It's November 1, while you folk in the United States celebrated Halloween the day before, in my home country it's the day of the dead that follows afterward that we commemorate. Usually, traditionally, my parents and I would go to the cemetery in past Tamontaka Bridge in Awang to stay there for a while, offer some prayers, and just say hi to my dearly departed grandparents, sadly ever since we moved to Davao on a permanent basis, that's been a physical impossibility due to time constraints, lack of lodging, and distance. So instead I'll post my thoughts here. Both of them are gone, I lost my grandmother before I knew how to form sentences more complicated than "I'm hungry.", and I lost my grandfather months before I finished grade school. I lost both of them to disease, grandma via diabetes, grandpa via lung cancer. My parents (and by extension I myself) hold their memories in high regard. Personally speaking to this day I cannot even mention or make commentary on them without shedding at least a few tears, as both of them while not living completely sanctimonious lives, were helpful, and good natured people that helped raise me, and my siblings in one way or another. As I've matured I would have thought that my immensely deep connection would damped eventually, but considering it's nearly been 10 years since the loss of my grandfather and I'm still tearing up I don't think that's how things work. My greatest question and probably the one thing I seek out most is to find what survives of them, things that, even the hands of death or the eroding power of time can never hope to take away. By mind, body, and soul they have left our fleeting existence, some would say gone forever, while I prefer to think that they are to some extent in good company of the Heavenly host.As my grandfather loved cokcfighting, we used to joke that he was gambling with Saint Peter when he reached the Pearly Gates. Of the things that are left, most of them are just mundane objects; from pieces of clothing, to photographs, and most potent of all, memories - intangible fragments of times gone by that have stuck with us from then, until now. Of those memories, most are simple interactions ranging from acts of kindness and compassion, to just watching them carry out mundane chores and imparting whatever forms life lessons they felt needed to be imparted to us. And there I come to my revelation. If your forebears' legacy is that which you seek, need look no further to than the person who speaks. Portions and fragments of their existence survive within ourselves - from the very strands of DNA that make us who we are, to the countless intangibles that they had left us, and therefore to make sure that their legacy, their memory, their existence will not be forgot, one can - as we so choose - live our lives to the fullest extent; achieving our own little feats of greatness in our time, and touching those around you with the same kindness that those who've gone ahead of us imparted unto thee. One of my favorite songs that never fails to reduce me to tears is Dan Folberg's "Leader of the Band". I disagree that our lives are just poor attempts to imitate the man, but we are the living legacies of the leaders of our own bands. Live it out, live it up, and forge your own paths. It's one way to somehow honor the sacrifices and compassion that our forebears showed us, and more importantly, what keeps their memory and what they stood for, alive.
  18. Corrupt a Wish

    Ohh a linguistics one, alright let's play. Granted, you learn every language ever known to mankind through study and enhanced methodologies using Science! But your complete physiological makeup is age-regressed and permanently locked at 5 years old since these are the ages most conducive to learning language. (It's the so called "Critical Period" of language learning) As a bonus disadvantage, your tongue is kinda short so while theoretically you can speak in every language (and can write in every language though you're a lot slower at learning the letters) you still pronounce your Rs like Ls. I wish for a Purple Prose Positron Cannon.
  19. Three Word Game

    absurd amounts of
  20. What Are You Watching?

    - post removed -
  21. Last Post Wins

    *Regent gives Celia the all-clear* C: I am undecided. Perhaps if- *A Princess Peach thwacks her good on the arm with a baseball bat* C: Hoy! Ang sakit nun! Hindi kita ginagalaw tapos biglang paluin mo ako? Hala, sige! Laban! *Celia unsheathes her sword and conjures her Frost Magic and joins the fray* R: You got this handled? C: Oo! O B O S E N. [note: if anyone wants to fight Celia feel free to take control of the attacking Princess Peach]
  22. Things That Make You Happy

    About two years ago I took up a class in an art school not far from here. It was great and with it was great, and for the curious here's what I was doing.That school was run by a gentleman named Macky Bongabong, a very talented artist, sketcher and painter; probably one of the best I've seen. Cut to exactly 2 years later and I read this article and find out what kind of struggle he went through and how through perseverance and talent, he went on to greatness, gaining national recognition for his talent and work, and somehow through small beginnings went on to greater things like being mentioned in the same breath as some of the most celebrated personalities in the artistic scene in the country. I kind of feel honored that I was under his tutelage for a time, and that he's going up in the world.
  23. Last Post Wins

    *watches as Hundreds of Princess Peaches fight against each other in a rather interesting spectacle, Celia sits down on a rock while Regent stands beside her* R: Going to sit this one out, Princess? (Context: Celia, or more specifically Ang Kadakilaang Bb. Celia Fronmir-Myron is of Royal descent.) C: I see no reason to get involved. Though I am sort of itching for a fight... R: Well lets see if you could get involved... *Shouts towards the commentator on the mushroom he can barely see* R: Hey! Guy who seems to be organizing this event! My friend over here is a Magical Princess from Another Dimension, can she join in the fight?
  24. Last Post Wins

    *both are shaken by the sudden God-Like voice from nowhere* C&R: To arms! To arms! *millions of tulips just plop into existence* C: Well this could have been worse... Personally I'm rather fond of the greenery. R: Are you kidding? This is going to be a massive headache for conservationists and it's going to make the Tulip an invasive species! *Princess Peaches appear* C: *gives Regent the look of utter confusion* R: *give the look of someone that does not understand what is going on either*
  25. Things that make you sad.

    On a serendipitously related note I'm trying to write something big down (again). And I've been on the start-and-stop loop for the last year or so now. It's gotten so bad that I'm actually having fits of deja vu while writing and rewriting the same passages over and over again and this is despite the fact that I've drastically changed how my story is supposed to play out. I'm really starting to worry that I'm losing my mind, and more importantly, my writer's edge so soon.