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So My Sister Might Be Dying. . .

I'm sorry about your sister! One of my old friends went through something like that and it wasn't fun either :( Best wishes.

What Are You Listening To?

Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band is a great album dubbing the Beatles' original.
It's reggae and so, so fun. I vehemently recommend.

Atheism 2.0 - Atheism using Religions perks.

I feel like a lot of people interested in this topic would be interested in reading Library of Babel. a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. It proposes a sort of answer to the chaos of a seemingly infinite, uncontrollable world in the form of language, which selectively creates meaning out of nothingness. The peak of the end of this chaos is a 'Man of the Book', which is a sort of key to the seemingly meaningless infinity within the library, a sort of God.

Mentally scarring heterosexuals

Omg, I know I don't post here, but this absolutely made my day.

No Guns or Ammo

In my opinion, allowing the usage of guns in RPs leads to gross overuse (and abuse) of them, especially if an RP is geared specifically to the 'post-apocalyptic/survival' theme (leading to the whole 'pseudo-rambo' thing you were talking about). There are some other minor problems that I've seen to some extent - the ease of use of guns sometimes leads people to put in less effort into descriptions and so on.

However, agree with you that total restriction might not be necessary. Firearms in post-apocalyptic RPs and in writing in general can be used as tools to create incredible, indelible drama, tension, and soforth. Like, imo, Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' (post-apocalyptic) wouldn't be as moving if not for scenes with tense drama created in part by the use of firearms. The main thing is creating an environment where gun usage is more limited / changing your pool of RPers to one that you know won't go pseudo-Rambo on you.

Also omg Canticle for Leibowitz, what a cool novel.

Roleplaying characters with Physical Disabilities

Brovo said
Everything that has a visible descriptor no longer functions as a description for a blind person.

Honestly, the sort loose, experimental, but orphic writing that results from being forced to write vastly different perspectives / on 'weird' prompts is why I love RP. Thanks for describing it so well.

Does this happen to anyone else?

Oh definitely. I'm sure confirmation bias has a lot to do with it. But that's cool, because if you're learning new words, they're probably vibrant and interesting.
Word of the day : the Portuguese (fittingly) 'saudade' : intense nostalgia and a haunting yearning for lost love, especially one that is presumably lost forever.

Roleplaying characters with Physical Disabilities

Physical (as well as mental) disabilities are challenging, but enjoyable to write, and I am all for these types of characters, which break up the sort of canonical archetype that generally exists. RPs help me practice my own creative writing, and the sort of thinking that has to go behind the altered perspective of a disabled character has forced me to be more fluid and creative than otherwise. What Brovo said sums it up.

Brovo said
it suddenly changes every single line you have to write from that character.

Additionally, physical disability to certain extents (I'm talking about like full-body impairment, displacement, etc) has always been an interesting concept for me to mull over. One of my unused characters has a synthetic body and only retains a human brain and it brings up questions about what constitutes the 'human' or 'soul', etcetera. Neat.

Operation: Dead Man's Hand

Oh, yeah. :)

Walk into the club like what's up I have a big

Everyone is obsessed with something, I just happened to be obsessed with things people tend to find scholarly. I'm just a fangirl/guy.

Thanks to both of you for a warm welcome, I am appreciative. :)