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    1. Cerberov 10 yrs ago

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10 yrs ago
What I learned from spam today: absolutely nothing.
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10 yrs ago
What I learned from the spam forum today: heavy metal wins wars.
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First: you need to realize that ISIS is a minority group, an extremely weak military force, and someone whose tactics rely on us turning fear and hatred into recruitment tools. They want us to turn on the refugees coming from Syria, because they want them to feel like their only option is to become a terrorist, because all the West wants to do is drop bombs on their country and hope the problem goes away. The fact that we are even considering "dropping our morals" is proof that their tactics are, indeed, affecting people.

Second: Hiroshima and Nagasaki wasn't a situation where we needed to drop our morals. We had crushed Japan militarily, and the only ones that truly supported further war were the military brass angry over their toys being broken. The Japanese government reached out diplomatically, and we refused repeatedly. We didn't want the Russians sharing Japan with us, so we decided to nuke them. We dropped pamphlets about evacuating cities due to atomic bombs after we nuked two cities, not as a warning, but as a threat. It was a senseless action done as a way of flexing our muscles, it saved no one, killed tens of thousands and irradiated two cities.

Third: yes. Barring people who are escaping persecution from a rebel force which we helped arm (because these rebels are the same ones that the US armed a few years ago) just because the monster we created might possibly sneak in is, in fact, morally wrong. Turning a blind eye to the genocide of the Assyrians and the steady downslide of human rights and livability in the region as we proceed to drop more bombs is, indeed, morally wrong. Assuming that every single refugee coming into other countries is a terrorist because of a piece of propaganda released by a paper tiger so desperate for manpower and resources that they recently resorted to strapping IEDs to chickens is stupid. It's also morally wrong.
Hey. I'm interested in this thing. Not sure about hopping in this far in, but I'm interested.
Scattered thoughts rushed forward through the haze of boredom that was quickly breaking in Maia's mind. She took a deep breath, tried to find her center. Being here and there in the middle of a firefight wasn't a good thing.

Edward had pulled a bit of fire to himself, and Ryder and Harold seemed eager to rush into the gap. Maia's plan, by comparison, was a bit simpler.

She ran around, going towards the front of the convoy. Loosing half her salvo of rockets ahead of them by a margin of 75 meters, just close enough to make them hesitate. Her autocannons focused, loosing fire at the Dreqs at the lead of the convoy, strafing as she went. Tearing them open would be good, but her main goal was to get the trucks between her and her opponents. Logic would dictate that if they were valuable enough to have such a large escort, they'd be valuable enough for the escort to not turn their guns on. That'd make them the perfect cover.

She just needed to get to it.

Her skates went on as he got onto the open road, and she crouched as low as she could as she skirted around and onto the bridge. Her guns didn't stop firing until she was close to the trucks, and couldn't afford a stray shot destroying the thing they were sent to retrieve. Her logic seemed sound enough. Let's just hope that the enemy had the same line of thought.
Follow them around. Anytime they turn towards you, giggle, hold your face, and then turn and run away. Do that enough, and they'll be sure to notice you.

Or leave dead animals on their porch. That also works.
Hey, I might be interested.
@EmptyArmor I don't know how you do it, but you make all of those references flow together like it's as natural as breathing, and it puts a goofy smile on my face.
"Ah, I see now. This is one of those plans that involves me dying horribly. Is it? Tell the truth."
Skin condition. But a better question is: are you old enough to be in the military?
Talking sigils, and a ghost? When will the wonders cease.
@WilsonTurner

Many of the characters here run the gamut between paranoid, cynical, and entirely disaffected. Someone vocally defending their strengths like Harold did is something that will rub people the wrong way.

I don't think your character's stupid. Neither the way you play him, nor the way you set him up, make him stupid. He's talkative, outgoing, and willing to hold by what he believes even when it draws heat to him. He's given us the most dramatic tension so far, and that's a good thing. He didn't make a good first impression, but hey, impressions change.

Just know that we aren't targeting you, and we won't automatically shoot down everything your character does.
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