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Creationism, if that is the extent of your religious views, is irrelevant to most things this is true. (Well, except maybe if you are a geneticist or something).

But it does tend to be comorbid with other stuff. You run across a hardcore creationist you have to start wondering what other hardline evangelical stuff do they subscribe to. Are they in the camp who believe certain things need to be achieved to bring about the end of the world? Because those people, the ones who want to help along the apocalypse, could make some poor judgements about middle eastern diplomacy. And if they are that evangelical, do they want to curtail the rights of others? People of other religions, or the irreligious, or fuck, even other brands of Christianity.

That's my first concern when I hear a candidate is creationist. If they are into that, what else are they into, and what affect might it have on their behavior? You know, it'd be like finding out your candidate believes he was abducted by aliens. Like, that belief when taken alone is pretty irrelevant as well, but it can be taken as a symptom of other peculiarities which might cause something of a problem.

And being a Brain surgeon doesn't really cast that concern away. I mean yeh, absolutely it is better to pick a guy with bizarre beliefs who is successful over a person with bizarre beliefs who lives under a bridge, but just because a bizarre belief hasn't hindered a persons ability to perform complex surgery doesn't mean it won't effect their judgement in leading a government.

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

Mostly all I ever see in the status bar is people alluding to some sort of personal crisis but not saying what the crisis actually is.

Which of these 'popular' lablels do you associate with?

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Really? Looks like almost every poll says that he won.

Personally, I thought it was a wash. They both came out looking horrible. He had her in the beginning on trade, and she was stuttering over herself trying to think of a comeback, but then the moderator started outright arguing with Trump closer to the end, and he had to completely go on the defensive. Hillary really just through out accusations faster than Trump could dispute them, but he seemed actually more solid on specific policies.

What's your take?

@Jotunn Draugr

Online polls were regularly declaring, like, 90% for Bernie back in the spring. Of course, the Media isn't exactly a better judge, but they seem to know that, and most media personalities I have seen have been tossing in grains of salt with their reports. You know, always talking about how bizarre this election is and how they ultimately can't figure out what is going on, before they go on with their opinion. I think the real indicator will be how the professional polls look, and we got at least a week if not two before those come out in large enough numbers to tell a story.

My own opinion, I expected him to do well, but I don't think he did well at all. I was surprised by it actually. He is good on the offensive but petulant and weak in the defensive, so I assumed he'd take the offensive. But instead he played his weakest hand and came off like he was way out of his league.

Hillary came off as robotic (The way she awkwardly felt her way up to that "I call it trumped up Reaganomics" line was like watching a blind man having sex for the first time). She always has seemed robotic. This is especially true when she is answering a moderator question. Clinton's debating style always comes off to me like a college freshman who practiced a few choice lines in a mirror and sort of ad-libbed the rest, because it always feels like she is setting herself up to deliver the line she had practiced. It's awkward and unimpressive. She did better when rebutting Trump's ideas, especially that one time where she did that aside to America's allies, I felt that made him look like a little boy getting apologized for by his mother.

But Trump comes off exactly like a cartoon villain in an old saturday morning cartoon. He starts off cocky, then slowly looses his cool, spouts generically evil lines, and starts falling apart near the end. It sorta felt like Batman should jump up any minute, kick him into the lava, say some corny line, and then credits role. He also has this thing for petulance. Like, let your supporters bitch about the media, don't do it yourself. A presidential candidate whining about the media... i mean, here you have a bunch of spineless milquetoast upper-middle class reporters and you're going to say they are being mean? How the fuck you gonna lead the free world if those people are enough of a challenge for you to call time-out? A billionaire whining about how the election is too hard... that doesn't inspire anything but disgust in me, guy. Man the fuck up.

The biggest danger for Trump in these debates I think will be himself. Clinton is not charismatic enough to do him in, he has to do it himself. He said Trumpy things in August and had bad polls. He toned it down in September and had really good polls. But if that is how he is going to act in a debate, he really is in danger of saying Trumpy things again, and he can't afford to do that in October. This is the home stretch. What happens in this next month will actually stay with the voters. He did really well with the TPP line, actually managed to choke her up, so whatever he did there he'll have to learn how to hold if he is going to win this thing. But if he plays it, like, basically the rest of that debate, he's going to have to hope for outside forces to get him the swing votes. Pray for an economic collapse (again), or something like that.

Meanwhile, I can say that the debate only really reinforced my resolve to vote third party this year. The next president is going to be some sort of disaster or another, so fuck it.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Holy shit! You guys are still doing this! I'm so impressed. Is there some kind of world record for longest-running online RP or something? Because we should get it.

How are things, famalam?

@wehr

holy shit we thought you forgot us forever

we been waiting for your next post

Which of these 'popular' lablels do you associate with?

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You see this? You see this call to violence?

This is why you have to vote for Donald Trump. He will keep us safe.

#makeAmericaGreatAgain

@Jotunn Draugr

He won't keep you safe though, wrong side of his reelection campaign wall. Might try to annex your healthcare or something.

How to write conversations/speech?

Nah, nothing wrong with giving the reader help. I've actually had an extremely nitpicky guy tell me that he read some of my dialog to his friends in the wrong voice because of where the hints were placed. So I usually have my character gestures in front of the dialog instead of behind it.

@BrokenPromise

That can create a redundancy problem though. Repeating any sentence structure too much can make the prose tedious.

Which of these 'popular' lablels do you associate with?

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Chinese and Japanese arent races, they are nationalities, this is where race realism sort of falls apart.

@Dynamo Frokane

some classic race realism

How to write conversations/speech?

The way I try and do it is to use "Said" when I think the speaker might be unclear, and otherwise I just leave it hanging and figure the reader will work it out based on context. Example...

"The bus is late." Joe said, looking down at his watch as if it had just insulted his mother.

"Bus is always late. It's been like that since I moved to this neighborhood." Larry replied, calmly rocking back and forth on his heels.

"I can't be late. Skipped two days of work this week already. If I skip a third..."

"Flu?"

"Yes." Joe said with a sniff. "I shouldn't be going. If I miss today, that's it. I'm done."

"It's been goin' 'round."

"I know. I don't recommend it."

The two men became quiet for a time. In the fog they looked to each other like outlines, bodies where one man could imagine the other as anything. Another form joined them. It started as a low moan on the street, followed by a high pitched squeal and the appearance by a behemoth of shadow in the fog.

"Ah." Joe said. "It's about time."

It is really easy in RP writing for a person to assume others aren't actually paying attention. That's probably one of my biggest flaws as a writer; assuming the reader needs everything spelled out for them. But if you worry too much about it, you can end up creating clunky sentences...

...or, god help us all, coloring the text like it were somebody's forgotten myspace page.

I JUST HAD SEEEEEEEEEEX... AND IT FELT SO GOOD!!!!

now i am intrigued. tell me, does Mahz plan on implementing sex in the forum?

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@Taaj

did he fall down the stairs tho?