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Grand Jury Does Not Charge Darren Wilson in Ferguson Case

Mtntopview said
So don't try and say white people are worse rioters then black people. When folks riot and loot, it doesn't matter what the color of their skin is. They're still criminals.

I think when Kidd posted that link, they were trying to dispel the on-going myth that blacks in America are the only racial group in the country that riot over stupid shit. A quick glimpse at the various Yahoo! News articles reporting on the Brown story only reinforces the severity of this misconception.

In reality, the media only reports on this stuff because it wants to keep race relations poor between blacks and whites.

But at the heart of all of this, it's only ape-dom. Tribal groups vs tribal groups; survival of the fittest. It's less about filthy racists, bonehead Tea Baggers and dirty lib-tards and more about multiple groups of primates giving in to their primal instincts and psychological drives.

I say embrace it, honestly. Give in to your inner-ape.

You can't run from it. So you might as well hone it into a weapon that you can use to forward your own group's goals and interests.

From Stardust, To Stardust

WilsonTurner said
?The solar system that Nouvelle is in is what they are calling solar system- and the closest solar system to them is the Valkian solar system. They aren't talking about star systems, they are talking about solar systems- a single sun with planets in orbit around it. Unless Earth and the system that it's in is the ONLY solar system in the galaxy, then you could hardly be confused when I refer to the area around a star as a solar system, as long as it has several satellite bodies, namely planets.I have already said that the Valkians are practically neighbors to the Nouvellians- by solar system. They just jumped from the edge of one solar system, one area around a single star, to the edge of the Nouvellian star's area, and began exploring around there. Solar = sunSun = starSun system = solar system = star systemUnless by star system, you mean a grouping of solar systems or something. Sol System is Earth, in my mind, and a solar system is just the area around a star. In my mind, of course.

The term 'Sun' is the name attributed to the star at the center of our own star system; the word 'solar' is Latin for 'Sun'. Solar (or Sol) is the exclusive name for humanity's *planetary system.

*Apparently, the proper designation for a body of planets that orbit a star is a planetary system, while a small collective of stars that orbit one another is referred to as a 'star system'.

So yeah, every planetary or star system can't be a solar system. If this were true, Keyguyperson would have a LOT of explaining to do.

From Stardust, To Stardust

Wilson, why does your faction refer to each star system that they come across as a 'solar system'? That implies that Sol has untold billions of clones scattered about the universe.

The Clouds - (Sci-Fi Fantasy Interest Check)

EDIT: Wait, I didn't see the anime bit. Disregard this.

Grand Jury Does Not Charge Darren Wilson in Ferguson Case

Inb4 So Boerd.

OT: Being human and therefore vulnerable to inherent bias and racist attitudes when confronted with social issues such as these, I naturally don't buy the cop's story---but that's mostly due to the fact that I wasn't there when the entire thing went down. Saw the viral video where Michael Brown decided to have his way with that mini-mart or whatever, so it's hard (if not downright impossible) for me to defend him.

I'm more angry with how the folks down there have decided to burn and loot stores and homes indiscriminately (which is disrespectful to the humble wishes of the Brown family, whom called for peaceful protests), which is going to have devastating socioeconomic consequences in the near future. Aside from white flight, you're going to witness 'store flight' when entire swathes of local business departs Ferguson en masse. Goodbye jobs, goodbye spenders and hello being broke.

Extreme poverty will ensue, moving out of the town will become impossible and the cycle of crime, violence and ignorance will drive on.

This'll only get worse as 2043 draws closer. I'll be prepared by then though.

Sacrilege War (Apocalyptic Grimdark Fantasy)

You know, there's a fighter in each and every one of you--a dormant, violent beast of immeasurable power that craves release. Don't push your inner-animal to the side; don't hide from it either. Embrace it willingly. Treasure it. Coddle it. Hone it. Conflict's natural--always has been and always will be as a matter of fact--but to flee from your nature-given impulse to kill, maim and put the unfit to the blade is to defile the time-honored traditions of the pecking order---and that there's folly. And heresy. And boring. But mostly heresy! And I can't have that now can I, ya?

-Apedemak, Great Lion and Beast of the Wounded Deep

Primary Objective: When he was a god, Apedemak originally focused much of his personal time fanning the flames of war and strife on Sormun for his own personal amusement. Since his forced exile to the mortal plane, the Great Lion has reluctantly reorganized his goals to better represent his new-found wariness for the deadly omnipresence that has taken refuge in the nucleus of the land. Not out of compassion for the mortal denizens of the world, Apedemak seeks to circumvent the probable subjugation of Sormun's people to ensure that war and turmoil remain everlasting—and that no potential competitor can stand between he and his rightful station as a higher being in the foreseeable future.

Secondary Objectives: Apedemak has kept a discerning eye trained on the Razaji for the last two-hundred years, but has only recently decided to initiate formal contact with their people. Whispers of their species' deep resentment of the gods and the unforeseen downfall of their primordial empire has presented their landless collective as a deliciously-suitable starting point for the war demigod's seemingly-benevolent plans. Parallel are both the Razaji and Apedemak in a number of ways, most notable of which is the mutual distaste both share for the higher powers native to the celestial realm and the shadowy entities of Darthlukian, while the feline-like visage of Apedemak may act as an approachable face for the Razaji to look upon with trust and hope.

Should they have it, Apedemak wishes to bend the Razaji into a coherent and well-equipped fighting force and humbly offer them a home within the Wounded Deep (which would help to further strengthen and expand his control over it).

Final Objective: Ridding the world of Desolationism and returning to the celestial realm to reclaim his rightful position as the only deity of war. To see this mission met with success, Apedemak must remain patient and diligent, but may also find it necessary to secure himself an 'edge' over the Red Pantheon that may help to nullify their numerical advantage when the deciding confrontation eventually comes to pass.

-Host Size: 1
-Unique Trait #1: A Force of Nature: Raw size and supernatural. It should come as no supruse that Apedemak owns enough hardiness to single-handily assault keeps and strongholds and lay low hosts of
-Unique Trait #2: (Created by me, mostly to reduce min-maxing)
-Unique Flaw #1 Though a Lone Legend: Extreme distaste and a very poor standing with the
-Unique Flaw #2 (Created by me, mostly to reduce min-maxing)

PATRONAGE & GEOGRAPHIC



This is the Wounded Deep, the home of Apedemak.

The dark-brown tiles that lay to the east of Darthlukian are the areas where Apedemak preys on grazing, giant megafauna. He is exceptionally territorial, and usually does not suffer foreigners from Somnus or Darthlukian to pass through his dominion unmolested. Apedemak's stalwart resistance to xeno incursions within his realm of activity has consequently resulted in little opportunity for major civilization to grow and prosper.

SPECIES

Apedemak is an avatar of pure calamity forged from a cosmic shard of an obscured and splintered deity of war and aggression; he has selectively adopted the unnerving shell of a towering, anthropomorphic lion-like creature of exaggerated dimensions to operate as his tangible vessel of choice. Aside from a single nose piercing and several rings of gold looped through his left year, Apedemak's appearance is fairly modest.

RELIGION & MAGIC

Because his bestial, looming form is imbued with a perverted mixture of magical corruption from Darthlukian and a vast aggregate of mystical dregs originating from the celestial realm, Apedemak has been bestowed with extramundane physical capabilities and a potent affinity for retarding the manifestation of all forms of magic and the effects of all paranormal abilities within a comparatively wide area. Magical abilities that do manage make contact with his hide or mind are blunted further.

Perhaps unique to Apedemak is his complete inability to be destroyed in mind. If slain on Sormun, his essence remains in a never-ending state of limbo until eventually recalled back to the mortal plane.

CULTURAL
-History of the Host (This includes how it was founded and why)

-Relations:

Followers of Desolationism

That bastard pantheon of false-gods? Little mishaps tried to throw me out of the celestial realm when they all finally grew some fangs and tasted true power for the first time. Invaders the lot of them! When that pathetic plot of their's failed miserably, they tried to erase me from existence. But I was a fighter! Still am, too! I knew how to call it even so that I can drag a scuffle out longer. I splintered. Broke my essence up and scattered myself across the World Below to wage a war of retribution from fronts that I damn well knew that those haughty children couldn't bring themselves to personally fight on. They're drunk with power. They'll never give that up. Not even to slaughter the second-biggest thorn in their backside.

-Apedemak on his near-defeat at the hands of the Red Pantheon

Driven by jealously, prejudice and hatred for past wrongdoings, Apedemak absolutely abhors the Red Pantheon and its followers with a raging, inexhaustible ferocity. Over the last two centuries, Apedemak has sought to do significant harm to this particular faith by relentlessly pursing a genocidal crusade against dragons, common people, heroes, and other legendary creatures and mundane beings that are in league with the Primal Gods, but he has only been marginally successful in his deplorable exploits and calculated acts of ultra-violence against the faith in spite of the frighteningly-powerful reserves of might that the Great Lion has at his disposal. For this reason, Apedemak is infamous throughout the world for his actions against their followers and their hallowed sights of worship, and consequently finds himself universally despised by Sormun's devout Desolationists.

Sacrilege War (Apocalyptic Grimdark Fantasy)

A person.

Sacrilege War (Apocalyptic Grimdark Fantasy)

Can I make a character instead of a host or realm?

A Patchwork Multiverse

Enalais said
Please don't accecpt the above.

Technically, the sheet is within the boundaries of the rules. If it wasn't accepted, the GM would be defaulting on their own roleplay's premise.

PoW is a legitimate universe, so it should be accepted.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

In fantasy and science fiction nation-based roleplays: people expecting non-human species to abide by the human psychological model.

Far from subscribing heavily to the 'hard' science fiction archetype or Starfish Alien trope, when I construct a non-human species, I want them to be distinguishable from the human norm on a predominately mental level. This causes issues in nation roleplays when war is the topic of the OOC/IC(naturally), because you're going to run into people who insist that your aliens or fantasy species must follow in humanity's footsteps when it comes to thinking and waging martial campaigns. If you aren't running space fighters or using armored knights, a fit must be thrown.

Additional annoyance: roleplayers using the word 'race' to describe non-human sapient species native to science fiction and/or fantasy roleplays. I blame Tolkien for this one. The word only sticks if both members of the human and non-human species can produce viable young with one another (since this implies that both creatures possess enough mutual genetic material and shared-ancestry to procreate successfully); a six-limbed mantis-like extraterrestrial being that hails from the planet Zog is not a sub-variant of the human species, and therefore is not a 'race', but an entirely different species altogether.

Stop applying humanity's notions of race to non-human specimens; stop doing this stupid shit. Fuck.