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I'd say that bringing out the Gauss weaponry and Hi-tech aircraft against a guy in a taxi is a bit unfair. Speaking of...

*Taxi driver gives OzLionHeart's character a note*

Note reads: Faster means of transportation available to the left of the nearest intersection. Not sure what it is, but it can go really fast, and I believe if you can't drive it yourself, the taxi driver is able to do so no sweat. - Regent

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Oh, bringing out the Gauss weaponry huh? Alright then!

*Goes off on foot to somewhere beyond immediate line of sight*

*VTOL aircraft rises from just behind where he was and takes off in immediate pursuit*

[Corrupt a Wish]

This one was one of the longer-running games of the old times. The basic rule is this: You as the poster read the wish of the person who posted previous to you, and in response, find a way to corrupt it, then it's your turn to make a wish for the next person to corrupt. The more over the top and creative the better!

So let's start us off again:

I wish for a study guide for the basics of Vault-Dwelling.

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Perfect! Now, let's do this like a volleyball game, toss it up and everyone try to get it.

*Prepares an arsenal*

Ready.

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Strange to see that it was. Hmm, also, does this thread have a win? Because if we're going to have a bit of fun, we might as well have a physical object win... or about as close to a physical object as we can have in this forum format- ... you get what I mean, right?

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I helped cause the great roleplaying gap. I'm still divided about whether or not it was a good thing. 

[Videogame Thread]

Oh Pokemon Go. I managed to get a Squirtle about 2 hours in, then when I woke up the next morning, the region lock went into effect and the game was basically unplayable where I lived. (As with the rest of South East Asia, The Philippines is under region locking.)

Since i can't really comment much on Pokerman Go, I'm going to go to an old hat with the name of Fallout 4 especially with it's latest DLC out just now.

Does anyone really like Fallout 4 these days? I mean, it's still a great game, no questions about that, and I really feel like the gunplay and hell, even the first person melee is the best it's ever been, but with all of this additional kits to basically continue the trend of "build your own stuff" that the fourth game's been spearheading, does it feel like they're losing the identity of Fallout as a survival RPG in favor of this post-apocalypse minecraft? I beat the game last May and have not touched it since. While playing an RPG like Fallout or any of the Elder Scrolls games will eventually lose its whimsy once you beat it more than once or twice, I just feel that especially with the fourth Fallout game that the missions REALLY get REALLY same-y REALLY quickly. While the games' main campaign doesn't suffer this problem, its side-quests are all "Clear out location X of Y" and sometimes "clear out location X of Y, then place this beacon"., which got same-y so quickly. In fact the only reason why it didn't was because the game was a scavenger hunt for screws, aluminium, copper, and adhesives. Compared to its direct predecessor (Fallout: New Vegas), its better mechanically, but worse overall as a Fallout game, compared to it's actual predecessor (Fallout 3), same mechanical proficiency, only slightly worse overall.

[The Association Game]

My guns go "Dakka Dakka Dakka"

[Things that make you MAD]

TL;DR - I had an encounter with a militant feminist - it got ugly

 

Ever had one of those moments where you just approach someone with an innocent question and then they just blow up in your face? Yeah, I had one of those before I got back here, it's been a while now and honestly at first I wasn't really mad at it I was just really confused, but now that I've had some time to think over it, I'm leaning towards angry and sad - though mostly angry.

Context: I'm writing a story with a female lead, I wrote a draft and sent it to some of my closest friends and colleagues; most of them said that my female lead was "not female enough", and then gave me their notes as to how to better write a female lead, and recommended that I go around and speak with as many female friends as possible and get a better sketch for how to characterize my female lead better.

So I approach one of my more, shall we say, hard-line feminist leaning friends (and this can only end so well), and I ask them about my notes, things like "Do you think that in context A, my character would act like X?", and "If my female lead was A, should their emotions dictate their actions towards Z?", and so forth; my line of questions were primarily directed towards my lead's mannerisms, character tics, and emotions (the top three things I needed the most work on).

Her response was one of... a condescending persuasion. Initially stating that being who I am (an Asian straight CIS dude), I could NEVER be able to write a female protagonist with any degree of accuracy, then stating that every question that I presented to her was based around stereotypes and that the female protagonist archetype I had in the works was basically an outdated, flawed, inaccurate, and frankly reprehensible representation of women everywhere. I asked her to provide me with some examples of a female lead that would fit her criteria of a good female lead, and she answered that I would copy the likes of Furiosa from Fury Road, I tried to press her further by asking what specifically about this character made her a better female lead than mine (although subjectively speaking, mine is a Magical Princess acting as a Colonel in her country's regular army and is caught between conservatives and progressives of her country, while Furiosa is an orphaned lady who rose through the ranks of a male-dominated society and became a high-ranking general, and later changed her ways to redeem herself) which she failed to provide besides saying "she's awesome and her character was developed with the help of Eve Ensler". With my limited knowledge of the film at the time I referred to her as "Cool action lady" from the movie, which really riled her up, she then went on a tirade basically saying "You see? All you can call her is her status, and her gender! That's how you objectify all of us women! You should stop, and the next time you open your mouth, check your *bleep*ing privilege!" at which point she abruptly ended the conversation, and basically never spoke to me again on the media platform we used and in real life.

At first I was like "Really? Did that just happen?" and "Well, that just happened." And mind you, all I was asking for was her help in writing a better female lead, and she turned it into... whatever I just described to you. I didn't take it to heart, though obviously it's ingrained into my memory like a branding scar or something, but just thinking about it in passing really gets on my nerves.

If anything however I do find it somewhat consoling that afterward my less militant colleagues gave me much better feedback, and while I've suspended writing until the end of the current semester (because seriously, I have trouble with some of the subjects I'm taking up right now), at least I'll have plenty of ammunition to continue with later on.

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So what do you guys usually do here these days? Back then we tried to take the win, but it was as elusive as the sound of gravitational waves of two colliding black holes. 

[Three Word Game]

is on approach

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12 minutes ago, Myranuse said:

If I had to guess, it would be because he's a scientist, not a philosopher.

Fair, but it's a common misconception that philosophizing is limited to those who focus on philosophy; it's a completely human thing to do it regardless of your approach and status, because it just helps us try to figure out the world in our own individual way.

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Just now, Myranuse said:

Boy, wouldn't Tedd like that...

You're talking about a guy who leaps back and forth through the gender-barrier at the same rate that Elizabeth and Booker, or Star and Marco go through alternate dimensions in Bioshock Infinite and Star vs the Forces of Evil respectively. In fact, that does make me wonder why hasn't he taken to the papers and written a philosophical treatise on experiencing both sides of the divide...

 

Seryoso bitaw, kung sinulat lang niya ang nadiskubre niya mula sa karanasang maging babae at lalaki, maging malaking kontribusyon ito sa larangan ng pilosopya...

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1 minute ago, Myranuse said:

That just makes it better!

Just saying that the last time I heard someone say that was just before I created a time-machine out of Quartz, Pykrete, and Cinnamon, and it ended up causing a time paradox that reversed everything's genders - including those that didn't even have definite genders!

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I don't even know that that is, but it sounds dangerous.