Sombrero

Your succulent chromosomes may be at risk of devourment. (Adventure in a Hotel!)

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Your succulent chromosomes may be at risk of devourment. (Adventure in a Hotel!)

"Man has spent his years struggling to make sense of the world. He's gone far, but he has yet to realize that the world makes absolutely no goddamn sense."-Quotable Fellow
_{(I'd also add in the BBC Sherlock theme here, for those who like to music-read, because it's the only song that really fits the tone I'm trying to go for, but that'd be a bit like putting up the Star Wars theme music for a Medieval War Game: The tone fits, but IT'S NOT $#(&%ING STAR WARS!... I also don't know how to embed videos... Ah well, listen to it in another tab, if you'd like. Or hum it fervently!)}

There was once a swingin' hotel in New England during the 1920s... Somewhere. It was called the Golden Tree Hotel, a beautiful, almost glowing spot on the beach. However, it never got quite as big as some of the other spots on the coast and eventually faded into obscurity, then bankruptcy. This is quite possibly because it was haunted as shit, but nobody was quite sure. It fell into disrepair and abandonment long ago, until there was little more than a foundation and some ground floor rooms and structures left standing in the ruins.

Unbeknownst to most people in the world, someone, or something, or some group of people with a lot of money elected to rebuild the place, and its lights have been quietly glowing on the coast for months now. One day, you received an invitation to the hotel. To the grand opening.

The point is, this hotel isn't quite finished being built, and there's a lot of ugly things in there that may or may not want to eat your body parts. Eldritch location, Silent-Hill thoughtform, Monsters in Maine, and all you have are your wits!... Doesn't seem quite fair, does it?

Welcome, meat-things, to

⟣ The Golden Tree Hotel ⟢

If you'd be willing to kick it up again, I'm interested :)

@Daxam

Alright, then! Challenge accepted!

Masked Heroes (Fantasy Crossover, eg.: do whatever you want(within limits))

Ooh, interested.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

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Where do manly ideals come from?

@ASTA

I dunno, history. They've always been around. There's bs from the medieval times that still carries over just because it was there, it wasn't broken, and nobody fixed it.

Why do we shake hands? Romans, probably.

Why is pointing rude? It has something to do with implying dominance or some shit.

The only theory I can really come up with is that, since males tend to get easier dopamine fixes establishing dominance and doing dangerous things, that the social constructs formed naturally over the generations so that all men could act like/establish themselves as the ultimate badass, because that's the guy who gets to survive and breed all the kids. Eventually this becomes the unhealthy notion that every man has to be the ultimate badass at all times, which leads to them refusing to talk about shit and denying their pain, even if it tears them apart. 'Because the movie cowboys can do it, why can't I?' Nobody informs the subconscious that the ultimate badass you're supposed to be isn't particularly human...

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

People who say "Today's (Insert shit here) sucks! It was way better in (insert generation here)!". I'm sure people will be saying the exact same thing about today's (Insert shit here) when we've had a generation or so for everything mediocre-bad to sink into obscurity. It's all a matter of preference. Were there good things in those days? Yes. There's also good things now. The video game market may seem overrun with brown shooters, but decades ago, the video game market was overrun with neon-colored platformers. Pop is terrible today? Rock was terrible back then. There was good stuff, of course, (just like there's good pop, if you know where to look.) but all those glam stock characters and caricatures of metalheads? Their jabs aren't based on exagerrations.

There's good stuff out there, you just have to go through the effort of finding it, just like people did way back when. Do you think that if something's good, its fandom will just spring up out of nowhere? Of course not! Everything starts small, people have to find out about it. You can be someone who just sits there and grumbles about everything being shitty these days, or you can actually go about finding things that suit your interests.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

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It was proven that male domestic abuse much like lesbian abuse victims do not talk about their abuse most of the time out of fear of facing ridicule or no one believing them.

Again several studies have shown that abuse is almost fifty fifty when it comes to men and women. And I've never seen an ad showing a male domestic abuse victim which is disgusting in my opinion and wrong.

It paints a narrow minded feminist narrative and is not equality

@Weird Tales

I'm not sure feminism is the boogeyman you're looking for here. Men don't talk about their problems because of the "manly" ideals that have been instilled in them over hundreds of years, before Feminism even existed. You don't see men in ads because women are the ones addressing this, because no one has spent generations building a social construct that tells women not to tell people about their shit and only deal with everything themselves.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

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Domestic abuse awareness is extremely one dimensional and there's been several social experiments that show people come to the defense of a woken over a man

@Weird Tales

That's because women usually are the ones getting hit. It's not that it doesn't happen to men, but can you name a case that's happened recently where a man's partner got away with abuse just because? If there's abuse, and there's reasonable proof for it, the offender usually gets penalized.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

Still hasn't landed me a one-night stand, but at least I don't get shat on as much.

@ASTA

I'm pretty sure the only way to land a one-night stand is to ask if she wants a one-night stand. And the only way to get a date is to ask someone if they want a date. That's really the only thing I've seen that A. Works and B. Isn't particularly awful when it doesn't work... Though you probably shouldn't go around asking for one night stands...

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

I also hate self described 'nice guys'.

Supremely Nice

@Dynamo Frokane

God, they make me sick. If they were actually nice guys, they wouldn't pretend it's an actual reason that women should be interested in them. Being 'nice' shouldn't be something that sets you apart, it should be par for the course. That's not the case, of course, but have you ever considered the fact that women may not be flocking to you because you've given them literally no reason to be interested in you other than the fact that you won't grab their ass or slap them? My goddamn Tivo Remote doesn't grab asses or slap anyone, but do you think he gets laid very often?...

_{Alright, maybe I did rent him out to one of those porn studios, but she was being paid to do that to him... Y'know, to portray a lady desperate enough to go for one of the "nice guys".}