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Concerning:

@Xandrya

She heard them minutes later, halves of hours later. The gunfire never seemed to really stop, pop-popping over hills, between trees; the noise bounced off stones and tree-trunks like the very shrapnel bursting from their guns. She must have been a mile away then, and still she heard them. Intensely at first, but as she walked the noises grew dull and faint; and further, the firefight began to die down. One side must have gained the upper hand, pinning the other, conserving their ammo while they waited for a head to peep out from behind a crumbling wall. And what did a single shot from a pistol mean? A warning shot? Or was it a coup de grâce?...

She had reached a road now, a long road of naked mud, walled in on either side by dense forestry. The mud was brittle and glossy, smoothed over from many days of rain and snow which had all dried up. It cracked under the weight of her footsteps. It burrowed itself between her treads.

Stalkers could debate each other for hours on the merits of following roads. It made them more visible, yes, but they moved quickly. And it was harder to pin them down, when they could choose in a moment what cover they dashed for. But those who walked the woods; they were invisible. They slogged and trudged through the undergrowth, but theirs was a patient lot, ever in a greater position to lay an ambush, or to sneak past tight patrols.

If Amelia could hear Dmitriy and his crew doing battle even from this distance, she must have known that others would hear them, too. The type of men with spindly necks like a vulture's, and a way of slithering toward stink like a maggot. The scavengers of battles fought by others. Soon the hangar would be crawling, and if Dmitriy was alive, she had to hope he had to brains to know that he had to get out of there quickly.

OOC note

@TemplarKnight07 Just in case you missed it:

He caught Gideon's glaze and assumed that Gideon had been Max. "You like you get around. I was wondering if you could help me with something." He looked around the room again. Wow, I'm attracting a lot of attention, aren't I? he thought to himself. Oh well, I have to start somewhere.
He pulled up a chair as he spoke, and strung his backpack o'er the back of it. He opened it to check if his camera was still intact, and it was there snug in it's spot on top of the few things he had. "I'd pay you for any inconvenience, of course."

@Fyre Unholy

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Sorry for the delays, mates. At least one GM scene will be up soon, and maybe two. Depends on whether Templar and Fyre choose to hold a conversation a while, or if they still need some assistance from the NPCs in their scene.

Ideally we'll soon be striking a good balance between player interactions and GM prompts in order to keep the RP moving.

Describe your favourite game in a nutshell

Deus Ex: bravery is not a function of firepower, but getting through the final level sure fucking is.

@TheMadAsshatter yeeaaaaaa boooiiiiiii

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8 - 1 = 7. These are your original numbers.

@catchamber

8 guilty posts out of 21 total

x=8

x/21=.381

(21-x)/21=.619

x/21+((21-x)/21)=1

21-8=13

1. Sorry, I had no idea you've been authorized to speak on their behalf.

@catchamber

You're not sorry, but that's OK because I'm also not speaking on their behalf. They get to decide for themselves whether your conduct disgusts them, but you know what? To me it looks like their silence speaks louder than any words they could muster.

4. So, you're only going to discuss what you want. Got it.

@catchamber

Whoa, it's almost like people have the freedom to do that or something! Anyway, I wasn't even talking to you when you decided that I needed to be educated in your genius ways. So why would I be expected to respond to all your points, all the time? Does everyone have to talk to you or they don't deserve to be in the thread? Narcissist much?

5. Almost every reply I made to other people's posts quoted almost everything they said. I broke up their posts to provide specific rebuttals to specific points they raised.

@catchamber

And I've already explained why this makes you a low-quality debater.

(Trying the chop-and-shop method of debating now. And the asking-rhetorical-questions-to-insinuate-stupidity thing, too. Let me know how it works out.)

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8 - 1 = 7. These are your original numbers.

@catchamber

8 guilty posts out of 21 total

x=8

x/21=.381

(21-x)/21=.619

x/21+((21-x)/21)=1

21-8=13

1. Sorry, I had no idea you've been authorized to speak on their behalf.

@catchamber

You're not sorry, but that's OK because I'm also not speaking on their behalf. They get to decide for themselves whether your conduct disgusts them, but you know what? To me it looks like their silence speaks louder than any words they could muster.

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Why would I respond to the "other seven" posts (nice math BTW; 8+13=21) when:

1. You've already used the exact same slimy tactics on those people
2. They've already grown frustrated with your slimy tactics, and abandoned the discussion
3. They have nothing to do with my point at the time, which was that if I can only trust 60% of what you say on average, you don't deserve for your opponent to put actual effort into refuting you
4. Most of those posts addressed things I never cared to argue about (I never feigned at trying to dismantle your every point; only the most egregious of them)
5. You've not had the courtesy to respond to anyone else's arguments yourself as a singular, cohesive whole, unless their posts are extremely short and usually just one paragraph per

?

Are you pretending to be daft, or do you seriously have no idea how to follow a train of thought through more than two steps? In addition to your ideas to save the planet being unfit for the real world, you don't even know how a proper debate is realized. Simultaneously you manage to hold delusional opinions and argue them fallaciously.

Keep up the rhetorical questions to imply I don't know really simple things, though. At least the desperation is entertaining, if nothing else.

Men vs. Women Race to 1000

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Men vs. Women Race to 1000

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What about the other 7 posts?

@catchamber

I guess the high school social studies teacher who inspired this thread didn't teach you how "credibility" works, huh?

Anyway, another player said the exact same thing as I've been saying. You blew him off too, but he stated it more eloquently than me, so I defer to him:

The problem is that we have reached a juncture in which it has become extremely cheap to exploit the resources of the Earth while simultaneously leaving pollution in one's wake. These types of technologies would need to be scaled up to many nations in order to have an appreciable impact on the Earth's environment and population to effectively stave off any disaster/crisis. This leaves the plans much more vulnerable to the intricacies of global politics, budgeting, human rights, etc.

@Didgeridont

This paragraph, in a nutshell, explains why this entire thread is a delusion, a pipe-dream, and an all-around shitshow.

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About 40% of your posts in this thread. (8 guilty posts out of 21 total; went back and counted.)

The most recent offender being this one.

Dissecting a post into individual sentences and arguing with it one sentence at a time is a deliberate omission of context. If you didn't sincerely believe some of the tripe you're spewing in this thread then I'd accuse you of being a con artist, because frankly it's so blatant that I cannot believe you don't understand what you're doing or why it's considered poor form. Personally I think you were playing dumb precisely in the hopes that people would give up like I have (under the sophomoric notion, of course, that having the last word means your argument is better than theirs).

It's probably not a coincidence that the others have given up. I might actually be late to the lifeboat party after all, as everyone else has already abandoned this scuttled ship of a thread.