Sombrero

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

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I don't like dating sites, it just doesn't seem natural

@Weird Tales

As Hitler-y a thing it is to say, some people just aren't in a position where relationships come naturally. People have to find their niche, and when that niche isn't in real life, you don't just give up when alternatives are available. I mean, you can try to pretend you're above it, but if you're getting rejected or can't bring yourself to do things any other way, you're probably the only person who thinks that.

I love how everyone in this thread knows what dating websites are and how they are used but would swear theyve never used one.

"I made a Tinder profile for a joke, but I didn't take it seriously"

@Dynamo Frokane

I'm very familiar with the idea of dating sites, from the media, but I'm not exactly sure how they work. Kind of been assuming they're forums with amazon-style suggestions on the side until now. I guess Tinder is some sort of profile-browser, based on what I've heard on Game Grumps... I can't help but feel like that undermines my credibility somehow, even though I haven't said too much about dating sites.

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

@Sombrero

Harassing the user for posting something on the internet, while the thread was stupid, is hardly a good idea. It makes you no better than them. And if they're trolling, you're just feeding them by "harassing" them. I'd rather someone post a troll/offensive thread than harass someone. Harassing is highly malicious, and just because this user trolled or was misguided in posting that thread doesn't mean he needs people to start doxxing him or telling him he should die, etc.

Sorry, I usually don't post in these threads, but trying to see someone justify harassing one dude over a thread he made online, offensive or not, just rubbed off of me the wrong way.

Also Tulpa, I'd dispute the fact that GG conducts massive troll campaigns, but I guess this isn't the place for that.

@Nytem4re

Oh, I'm really not into that kind of thing. When I "Harass" someone, I just consistently give them a hard time about things in not-necessarily-related things. kind of like what was happened in the thread but with less posting density, volatility, and spread throughout other threads if he did something similar. You can get sued over this flavor, if one party or the other is highly motivated enough. Telling someone to die is an inherently silly thing, and Doxxing is also pretty stupid since it clashes with the victim on a technical level and not on the grounds in which you disagree. I just vocally disapprove of his actions on the internet, and that disapproval will remain on the internet.

Then again, he is just a troll, so it's best the subject is just condescendingly dismissed rather than met with justified salt.

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

Pick-up artists are kind of like martial artists, in a sense. Except with way more bullshit and placebo built around it.

In martial arts, you learn skills, you have to get into a certain state of mind, and you have to practice, but they're trying to prepare you for something with a billion variables that nothing short of experience will ever be able to properly prepare you for. All those highly specific fight-ending maneuvers you learn you will probably never get the opportunity to perform, and when you do, it probably won't end the way you predict, because f*#ping nothing will. They do give you one thing that always helps your chances, though, and that's physical conditioning.

That's what pick-up artists are, basically, but, as I said, with all the potentially useful teachings stripped away for plain bull, among other, more destructive lessons. They give the less skeptical student the courage and willingness to ask the girl out, which is the most important aspect. They don't have chances if they never tried to begin with. Of course, it'll probably never work for someone *aherm* aesthetically disabled, but a guy with no eyes and only one of each limb just isn't boxer material, is he?

Invariably, there will be at least one woman in a million that would accept his proposal, (And the unfortunate boxer may be able to beat the crap out of one in a million guys, but I'm done with this entertaining analogy) but he has neither the time nor resources to meet literally a million women. That's what dating sites are for, the ability to ask one million women out at once.

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

Well... That certainly was... An experience to read. It caused all kinds of emotions to happen in me. It could be my shitty sense of humor, but I feel like the post would've been kind of funny, in a South-Park-ey way, if he hadn't gone to the effort to post an actual picture of the actual event occurring...

I definitely think Mr. Sinatra was right in deducing that this guy was a migrating /pol/ user. If he's trolling, which, in the first stage of grief, I have chosen to believe he is, then there's few other places that commonly breed a user who puts that many paragraphs of effort into his "work" to upset people. If he isn't... Well, he's got that specific vibe of mental disorders and oddly casual hardcore racism that they tend to give off.

Either way, I'm caught somewhere between laughing, growling, temple-rubbing, and pitying this man's state of mind. I would definitely harass him, criminal offense or not. My day's darkened just a little bit. I forgot what I even came here to complain about before reading this! Kind of puts everything I've seen before into a new, horrible perspective, really. I thought I'd seen it all before this point, but in hindsight, every other terrible rp idea I've seen was rather innocent compared to this.

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

Not to stoke the fire or anything, but... What happened? I mean, I shouldn't draw attention to all this, and it's likely that the answer I get could be biased one way or the other, but having no idea of what you guys are talking about is kind of boiling my bacon. It's cool, though. I understand if it's guild policy not to talk explicitly about deleted things, because in my past experiences that's done nothing but resurrect the whole thing and cast bring bad juju upon us all... But at the same time, I really have to ask, since it's getting pretty specific anyway...

Cheers!

Welcome! It's great to be eclectic around here, because there's so many different things! It's also great to have a ton of different inspirations when you get everyone together for a worldbuild.

Um, Hello...

Welcome to the guild! I hope we may someday meet this marvelous creature!

_{Although my minor OOCP (Odd Obesessive Compulsion for Pedantry) has forced me to list a bunch of animals that kill for sport... Domestic cats are the obvious ones, but dolphins also murder porpoises for... No real reason? And they (as well as lions) will kill babies just so their mothers will have sex with them. Weasels walk into chicken coops, kill all of them, and then leave, on a daily basis. Chimpanzees will also eat babies of their own kind if they are so inclined, and bully each other to death because dominance is how ape culture works. That kind of falls under killing for fun. Tigers and other big cats slaughter birds and other animals simply because they ran into them along the way. Elephants have been known to just kill rhinos, and not particularly because they were competing for food, they've just killed rhinos. I'd like to think that there was at least a motivation for this (like entertainment) other than pure evil. Male Polar Bears kill anything that moves and cannot be mated with, because sex and killing is the only thing you can do for fun in the Arctic. Granted, they have nothing else to eat, but they'll still kill you because they are bears and you are living. Predators often store their excess food for later, and you could argue at length about whether the animal really is experiencing pleasure from killing, but that doesn't rule out the notion that sometimes they kill things just because... I'm not sure there's any explanation other than "amusement" for Orcas volleyballing smaller animals to death, though.}

⟣ The Golden Tree Hotel ⟢

@Daxam?

Wouldn't want to get too far into this without you.

Omniverse: Brink of Annihilation

Pofski raised an eyebrow as he heard an annoying, pestersome croak outside, disturbing the quiet and solitude of this investigation. He didn't particularly care to go birdwatching... But then it hit him that perhaps there would be another body in the fields, one that would perhaps provide a better idea of what the hell was going on out here, so that he could get another job that wasn't so far below his standards. The evidence inside could wait, but the evidence outside would be eaten by birds if he wasted too much time looking for booze that might not actually be there. He trotted outside, looking for any source of crowing, glancing at the man in yellow to make sure he heard it too.

⟣ The Golden Tree Hotel ⟢

@Eviledd1984
"Oh, no. It's all pre-paid, assuming you got one of those invitations." The clerk said, smiling, "You know, promotional stuff. We'd just appreciate a good review on Yelp."

The clerk went back to her work, addressing another guest, providing him with a room number, (106) and passing him a... Rusty card?

[DJAtomika]

The wing of the hotel she was in was shaped a bit like an 8 on a digital clock. Each floor was mostly hallways, with rooms on one side and a pleasant view all the way down to the lobby and balconies of the other "floors". The next hall presumably led to yet more 8-shaped balconies.

The room was well-lit, even without the lights on. The fog cleared over the ocean, of all places, and there was just enough of a gap in the clouds for a late-afternoon orange to peak through... That was on the other side of the building, however, so it looked rather like a glowing orange beach was literally melting away into nighttime.

Aside from the view in the big window-doors, (which also led to a balcony that seemed even higher) there was plentiful art-deco furniture. Soft, comfortable, and charmingly dated. All very nice, though the room may have been a little warm. The maid or whoever set the thermostat might have been trying to compensate for the unseasonable chill outside this evening.