That guy looks like a mix of javier bardiem, justin trudeau, and yes, classic sly stallone
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and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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Atomika if it makes you feel any better I was about to sit down and chat with y'all but I had Krystal cause they just opened one by the house and now I have to go poop first.
i'll never be as good at anything as the person is who wrote that
FATAL is literally that: it sold itself as the 'adult' swords & sorcery game that has sex stuff in it!
But it doesn't. There are no rules in the game involving any kind of consensual sex or courtship. Just rape. Lots & lots of rape.
Ow the Edge.
To some extent I would welcome an RPG that included sections on courtship & sexuality, and especially ones that explore uncharted gaming territory around that subject (like the fact that courtship is more often than not a disaster! Almost all games operate on an assumption that dating is almost always successful - which is okay in the sense that games typically want to facilitate a fantasy, but also something of a shame because there is a lot of worthwhile narrative / discussion to be had when it comes to topics like rejection, break-ups, infidelity, falling out of love, etc.
Are you talking video games or P&P?
Both.
And I should say that, yes, I agree you clearly don't need dice mechanics for that - but games that want to include more of this material as part of their setting & culture info, IMHO, would be quite welcome (I suppose now that I think about it, Monsterhearts does this quite well).
Hrm
I think that games need to start prioritizing relationships to have that happen, P&P wise (like, in a not-indie way).
HOWEVER also re: video games, while I don't think it really would be nice to have to deal with unexpected infidelity in a game where you want a fantasy, I think games are getting much better at displaying complex relationships as of late, so that's pretty neat.
Well, as an example of what I mean (and see as fairly typical):
In the Sims, when you want a partner for your household, you just go pick one. The game is very good at not judging whom you want as a partner, whether you want multiple partners, etc... but the experience is one-sided. The person you pick will never say no, will never be the one to initiate a break-up, introduces no unwanted complexity into what the game labels a relationship. And, hey, it's a silly fantasy game - that's fine.
But almost every game does this if they include any sort of dating mechanics. I can't think of one that doesn't.
It doesn't strike me as some sort of moral imperative to present a more nuanced look at relationships in games, but I do think it's a pity that either nobody or next to nobody has felt this was territory worth looking at.
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PANGSAU, MYANMAR—Thinking quickly to thwart disaster as he ventured deep into the Myanmar rainforest to meet with State Councilor Aung San Suu Kyi, Secretary of State John Kerry threw a vine over a pit of quicksand to save the life of his 12-year-old Moroccan companion, Drumstick, sources confirmed Monday. “Grab on, kid!” said Kerry, flinging the makeshift lifeline he had hacked off a tree with his machete to the rapidly sinking boy, an orphan who reportedly has tagged along with the American diplomat ever since helping him escape from Marrakesh police in 2013 via a series of hidden backstreets. “For a minute there, I thought I was going to lose you. I don’t know what I would’ve done with all that peace and quiet.” According to sources, the incident marks Drumstick’s closest brush with death since riding in a runaway mine cart in South Africa last year.
Thought:
I wish I had saved the processors from every one of the main computers I've owned. I'd make a display for them. The hearts of my departed technological children.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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simonwolfi can feel a differencetoday, a differenceRegistered Userregular
Just do what good Apocalypse Engine games do and have character-specific sex moves
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
also pls forgive my execrable sexism, but i just saw the most 34-year-old-mom-on-facebook exchange of all time
woman posts in local buy/sell/trade group, 'mom of 2, babyproofed home, cpr licensed, etc. looking to babysit. 30 bucks per day per kid. please feel free to come and talk with me, inspect my home etc.'
one of the responses is someone tagging another person, saying 'hey look, this woman could babysit jaden'. and then after a linebreak, the commenter says to the OP: 'btw if you're looking to babysit more than two kids from two different families, you'll need a license. i recently did this and you'd have to do xyz steps'
OP responds, fuck this made me laugh
excuse me but i was asking for leads, not for advice : )
My mom doesn't consider her twenty-five year marriage that got her three kids and a bunch of travel and a new family (that still loves her, she is around at Christmases) and so on a failure, which is probably healthier than many people's views.
(that's not to say disasters don't happen, I just think we should look at ended relationships only rarely as failures. A failure, to me, implies that it was a net negative, which isn't true of many of my relationships.)
That's fair; I shouldn't have used that framing.
The image in my head when I typed that was of the young single woman on OkC getting flooded with dick pics.
Atomika if it makes you feel any better I was about to sit down and chat with y'all but I had Krystal cause they just opened one by the house and now I have to go poop first.
Krystal and White Castle both work on the same "you won't gain weight by eating this" science
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i would babysit jaden smith for free
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
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My mom doesn't consider her twenty-five year marriage that got her three kids and a bunch of travel and a new family (that still loves her, she is around at Christmases) and so on a failure, which is probably healthier than many people's views.
(that's not to say disasters don't happen, I just think we should look at ended relationships only rarely as failures. A failure, to me, implies that it was a net negative, which isn't true of many of my relationships.)
That's fair; I shouldn't have used that framing.
The image in my head when I typed that was of the young single woman on OkC getting flooded with dick pics.
well, and also a surfeit of decent messages. i'm not saying it's worth it. but i think if it's between a couple dozen inoffensive messages and hundreds of garbage vitriol and dick pics vs a message or two a month, for many people it wouldn't be an easy decision
dating is rough on almost every class of person i would think
except maybe super handsome men
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MortiousThe Nightmare BeginsMove to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
The Butter Chicken pizza is very popular at work, but I find it too sweet.
My mom doesn't consider her twenty-five year marriage that got her three kids and a bunch of travel and a new family (that still loves her, she is around at Christmases) and so on a failure, which is probably healthier than many people's views.
(that's not to say disasters don't happen, I just think we should look at ended relationships only rarely as failures. A failure, to me, implies that it was a net negative, which isn't true of many of my relationships.)
That's fair; I shouldn't have used that framing.
The image in my head when I typed that was of the young single woman on OkC getting flooded with dick pics.
well, and also a surfeit of decent messages. i'm not saying it's worth it. but i think if it's between a couple dozen inoffensive messages and hundreds of garbage vitriol and dick pics vs a message or two a month, for many people it wouldn't be an easy decision
dating is rough on almost every class of person i would think
except maybe super handsome men
I always feel bad for my female friends.
One is a super attractive Taiwanese lady who plays vidya and reads comics and teaches pole dancing classes.
The shit she receives every time she has tried OKC has been beyond cringeworthy.
My other friend use to filter by income when they allowed that.
She has preferences.
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
My mom doesn't consider her twenty-five year marriage that got her three kids and a bunch of travel and a new family (that still loves her, she is around at Christmases) and so on a failure, which is probably healthier than many people's views.
(that's not to say disasters don't happen, I just think we should look at ended relationships only rarely as failures. A failure, to me, implies that it was a net negative, which isn't true of many of my relationships.)
That's fair; I shouldn't have used that framing.
The image in my head when I typed that was of the young single woman on OkC getting flooded with dick pics.
well, and also a surfeit of decent messages. i'm not saying it's worth it. but i think if it's between a couple dozen inoffensive messages and hundreds of garbage vitriol and dick pics vs a message or two a month, for many people it wouldn't be an easy decision
dating is rough on almost every class of person i would think
except maybe super handsome men
no, it sucks for us, too.
woo, nailed it.
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courtship is a disaster tho
an extended period of anxiety that probbaly ends in rejection
and if it goes according the plan it's even worse and you end up in a relationship
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simonwolfi can feel a differencetoday, a differenceRegistered Userregular
god, sliding on ice and getting in an accident is such a nightmare.
consider:
1) people already run terribly late when the roads are bad. so you're even later to get to work or whatever.
2) you feel super vulnerable because you know there's an icy patch right there and you're worried someone is gonna crash into your stationary car
3) all the annoyance of waiting for the cops, the financial worry, hoping you don't have whiplash, possibly getting a tow etc etc- except it's also horrifically cold
shudder
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My mom doesn't consider her twenty-five year marriage that got her three kids and a bunch of travel and a new family (that still loves her, she is around at Christmases) and so on a failure, which is probably healthier than many people's views.
(that's not to say disasters don't happen, I just think we should look at ended relationships only rarely as failures. A failure, to me, implies that it was a net negative, which isn't true of many of my relationships.)
That's fair; I shouldn't have used that framing.
The image in my head when I typed that was of the young single woman on OkC getting flooded with dick pics.
well, and also a surfeit of decent messages. i'm not saying it's worth it. but i think if it's between a couple dozen inoffensive messages and hundreds of garbage vitriol and dick pics vs a message or two a month, for many people it wouldn't be an easy decision
dating is rough on almost every class of person i would think
except maybe super handsome men
I always feel bad for my female friends.
One is a super attractive Taiwanese lady who plays vidya and reads comics and teaches pole dancing classes.
The shit she receives every time she has tried OKC has been beyond cringeworthy.
My other friend use to filter by income when they allowed that.
She has preferences.
nothing more attractive than a big, thick checkbook
My mom doesn't consider her twenty-five year marriage that got her three kids and a bunch of travel and a new family (that still loves her, she is around at Christmases) and so on a failure, which is probably healthier than many people's views.
(that's not to say disasters don't happen, I just think we should look at ended relationships only rarely as failures. A failure, to me, implies that it was a net negative, which isn't true of many of my relationships.)
That's fair; I shouldn't have used that framing.
The image in my head when I typed that was of the young single woman on OkC getting flooded with dick pics.
well, and also a surfeit of decent messages. i'm not saying it's worth it. but i think if it's between a couple dozen inoffensive messages and hundreds of garbage vitriol and dick pics vs a message or two a month, for many people it wouldn't be an easy decision
dating is rough on almost every class of person i would think
except maybe super handsome men
I always feel bad for my female friends.
One is a super attractive Taiwanese lady who plays vidya and reads comics and teaches pole dancing classes.
The shit she receives every time she has tried OKC has been beyond cringeworthy.
My other friend use to filter by income when they allowed that.
She has preferences.
haha does she deserve sympathy for sorting by income
My mom doesn't consider her twenty-five year marriage that got her three kids and a bunch of travel and a new family (that still loves her, she is around at Christmases) and so on a failure, which is probably healthier than many people's views.
(that's not to say disasters don't happen, I just think we should look at ended relationships only rarely as failures. A failure, to me, implies that it was a net negative, which isn't true of many of my relationships.)
That's fair; I shouldn't have used that framing.
The image in my head when I typed that was of the young single woman on OkC getting flooded with dick pics.
well, and also a surfeit of decent messages. i'm not saying it's worth it. but i think if it's between a couple dozen inoffensive messages and hundreds of garbage vitriol and dick pics vs a message or two a month, for many people it wouldn't be an easy decision
dating is rough on almost every class of person i would think
except maybe super handsome men
I always feel bad for my female friends.
One is a super attractive Taiwanese lady who plays vidya and reads comics and teaches pole dancing classes.
The shit she receives every time she has tried OKC has been beyond cringeworthy.
My other friend use to filter by income when they allowed that.
She has preferences.
haha does she deserve sympathy for sorting by income
what
No.
But the shit she receives still would make you blush.
Because money and education are no guarantee of class.
this is one of the saddest, most hilarious things i've seen in a while
I'm laughing because I assume no one was seriously injured. I mean, yeah, the property damage and busted vehicles and sprained joins and shit sucks, but people sliding along on icy roads will never not be funny.
Never.
Not.
Be.
Funny.
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MortiousThe Nightmare BeginsMove to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
yeah, there's no question that being a woman- especially a conventionally attractive woman- can be a real nightmare when it comes to male interest. i'm just saying, there are benefits too. different problems for different sorts of people.
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That guy looks like a mix of javier bardiem, justin trudeau, and yes, classic sly stallone
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Well, as an example of what I mean (and see as fairly typical):
In the Sims, when you want a partner for your household, you just go pick one. The game is very good at not judging whom you want as a partner, whether you want multiple partners, etc... but the experience is one-sided. The person you pick will never say no, will never be the one to initiate a break-up, introduces no unwanted complexity into what the game labels a relationship. And, hey, it's a silly fantasy game - that's fine.
But almost every game does this if they include any sort of dating mechanics. I can't think of one that doesn't.
It doesn't strike me as some sort of moral imperative to present a more nuanced look at relationships in games, but I do think it's a pity that either nobody or next to nobody has felt this was territory worth looking at.
I wish I had saved the processors from every one of the main computers I've owned. I'd make a display for them. The hearts of my departed technological children.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Garlic and olive oil, no red sauce, Roma tomatoes, basil, sautéed onions, spicy yellow curry chicken, diced cucumber
L
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Those people are the worst.
And especially weird daycare mill people.
That's fair; I shouldn't have used that framing.
The image in my head when I typed that was of the young single woman on OkC getting flooded with dick pics.
The ice always wins.
Krystal and White Castle both work on the same "you won't gain weight by eating this" science
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
this is one of the saddest, most hilarious things i've seen in a while
Sunrisers are the bomb. Gonna be in memphis for new years, gonna eat so many of those.
Curry pizzas are great.
We have an indian pizza place just down the road.
With a little finagling* I can convince my wife to get a Tandoori Chicken pizza for supper tonight.
*throw out all the gorceries we bought over the weekend.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
well, and also a surfeit of decent messages. i'm not saying it's worth it. but i think if it's between a couple dozen inoffensive messages and hundreds of garbage vitriol and dick pics vs a message or two a month, for many people it wouldn't be an easy decision
dating is rough on almost every class of person i would think
except maybe super handsome men
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
but chu we're in miami~
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
man
what was that bus driver thinking?
ice was a factor... but certainly not the only factor
you know what i mean when i say snow, baka
I am intrigued
pizza [chat] gets very judgemental
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
The cop car made it funny. The salt truck made it hilarious.
I always feel bad for my female friends.
One is a super attractive Taiwanese lady who plays vidya and reads comics and teaches pole dancing classes.
The shit she receives every time she has tried OKC has been beyond cringeworthy.
My other friend use to filter by income when they allowed that.
She has preferences.
This one is the latter
no, it sucks for us, too.
woo, nailed it.
an extended period of anxiety that probbaly ends in rejection
and if it goes according the plan it's even worse and you end up in a relationship
@desc ＢｕｂｂｌｅｇｕｍＣｒｉｓｉｓＢｅｒｌｉｎ２０６０
consider:
1) people already run terribly late when the roads are bad. so you're even later to get to work or whatever.
2) you feel super vulnerable because you know there's an icy patch right there and you're worried someone is gonna crash into your stationary car
3) all the annoyance of waiting for the cops, the financial worry, hoping you don't have whiplash, possibly getting a tow etc etc- except it's also horrifically cold
shudder
nothing more attractive than a big, thick checkbook
haha does she deserve sympathy for sorting by income
what
when your tires spin out because the road is too slippery, the solution is not to mash the accelerator
No.
But the shit she receives still would make you blush.
Because money and education are no guarantee of class.
I'm laughing because I assume no one was seriously injured. I mean, yeah, the property damage and busted vehicles and sprained joins and shit sucks, but people sliding along on icy roads will never not be funny.
Never.
Not.
Be.
Funny.
The ones here are basically a curry covered in cheese. So curry sauce etc.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious