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Jon : "It's a whirlpool, Gareth"
Gareth : "Yeah, I'm seeing what it does"
Jon : "It's a WHIRLPOOL, Gareth"
Gareth : "Yes, And?.... Oh. I just died"
Jon : "Yes, it's a whirlpool, Gareth"



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Sounds alarmingly like the Dread Gazeebo sketch.

No, it doesn't. What's wrong with it?

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Actually I'd go to say that likely that character would fit in fine with the current crew. About half the statue have nigh infinite cosmic power. Without the itty bitty living space too!

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I can think of one. Three if you push the definition of ultimate cosmic power.

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As for feeling a little off, to be honest most of the people at GG have no real reason to be there (5 CEO's and counting!). It's just something we happily gloss over as long as you're not going to try end the world right in front of us.

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Of the two CEOs I know, one is barely ever there and probably turns up for purely nostalgic reasons (Zortel) and the other does so for perfectly good psychological reasons (Shadowe).

I realise you're being flipant and got narked because you felt everyone was ignoring you, but shall we try to be faintly sensible?

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so I have made a rod for my own back it seems.

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You sure have. If you really can't make a character that isn't uber-to-the-max in some way, shape, or form, then you probably shouldn't be worrying about roleplaying in an environment like GG. It works best when one or two characters can't ruin everyone's plots by one-upping everyone, and we already have enough of those as it is.

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aye but those guys buying it at midnight have to wait to get home to install it, me come 11:30pm the installiation begins and by 12am, I'm on my sweet way to Northrend.

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Yeah... sure... Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Sorry.

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Shy characters are best left for when people already know you as a player fairly well

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Depends. Shy characters can work if they are trying to get over their shyness. Annette started out like that. She would come to the statue after autographs, get one or two, and then dash off after a while. Eventually, she turned into the fun loving nutcase she is now.

Genuinely shy characters... what are they doing in a public gathering place like GG on their own anyway? Sometimes, people come up with character concepts and try to play them in settings which, frankly, aren't suitable.

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I will remain subbed and pop in when I've had enough of Elves, Dwarfs and Undead.

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I come pre-fed up. Plus, your ability to early buy does not phase me since I'm not buying a copy anyway.

I feel groaning heavily is acceptable at this point.

To be honest, it's nice to see stories about characters who crop up less often in fiction. I know next to nothing about 'Damia, and my current main is supposed to be working with her...

(( Yup. Nature of the universe and all that. ))

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Helluva a lot of re-enactors used when they filmed LotR as well...

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Didn't Orlando Bloom say something about wanting to make a fourth film in the trilogy?

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He made 6. The other three have Pirates of the Caribbean in the title.

(( More proof reading needed, but I liked it. ))

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Try explaining LARP to someone who hasn't got a clue what that means...oh boy do you get odd looks.

"So you dress up in a costume, use foam weapons and then spend a day hitting people with them while pretending to be a caveman down Chislehurst caves?"

and deathly silence follows...

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"So, do you know what re-enactment is? Yeah, well it's like that, but more fantasy and less chance of injury."

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This all reminds me of Sharpe - where they populated the entire series with Napoleonic re-enactors (to create a piece of fantasy without any real chance of getting injured ). I t wouldn't surprise me if some of those guys were mocked down the local pub one day, then afterwards, when people realized that those guys had been shooting a TV show with Sean Bean in the Crimea, it suddenly appeared pretty cool.

Context, is all...

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Helluva a lot of re-enactors used when they filmed LotR as well...

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You take the other halves of those of us who roleplay:

Ruth: Why do you still play those childish games?
Louise: If I must I'll put up with you doing it.
Jo: Are you still pretending to cast spells. At your age.
Vicki: It doesn't matter if you miss it, it's not like it's important.
Charmaine: It's not a real hobby is it, it's kids game.


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I really don't want to get into marriage councilling, but I'll tell those other halves one thing: down those roads lies divorce. It isn't so much this one thing, it's the attitude. "What you do really isn't important." And from the gamer side, if they give it up, it's a festering soar that eventually will come back and bite their partner real hard. Been there, done that.

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The guys I go to football with just laugh about it.


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Well, to be fair, I have pretty much the same reaction to people who want to run around a field playing a dumbed-down version of a once-a-year village rivalry contest.

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When it was brought up by the best man at a wedding of one of the group, all the couple of us who were there got all night was, "Are you one of his D&D friends?"


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I'm starting to pity you.

Went to a friend's wedding recently. Both of them LARP. We met them through LARP, discovered they lived close by. My other half helped with the wedding arrangements. LARP is pretty important to this couple, but by no means all their family are LARPers, nor do they 'get it.'

The wedding was held at a local castle. Everyone came in costume. Everyone. Most of the LARPers (by no means the majority) simply came in some variant of their LARP kit (I play a real clthes horse anyway, so it was cool). If the others couldn't afford to hire something (and they were given the addresses of hire shops in the invitations) then they cobbled something together out of what they could find.

The woman doing the ceremony said she had never seen any group so fully togged out in costume for a themed wedding. The photographer had an absolute field day.

Friends from LARP did the evening entertainment, as there are talented writers and artists on these boards, so there are talented singers and song writers in LARP circles.

Great fun was had by all.

If you're embarassed about the hobby you have, and expect people to think it's childish, then I guess you get the attitude you expect.

Or maybe I'm just lucky. I kind of doubt that though.

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Try explaining LARP to someone who hasn't got a clue what that means...oh boy do you get odd looks.

"So you dress up in a costume, use foam weapons and then spend a day hitting people with them while pretending to be a caveman down Chislehurst caves?"

and deathly silence follows...

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"So, do you know what re-enactment is? Yeah, well it's like that, but more fantasy and less chance of injury."

It's a sunny, but cold day here in Paragon City. A high of 9C and weak, west northwesterly winds. However, clouds will gather in the afternoon into the evening, thickening overnight, so those night time temperatures will be kept up above freezing, though not by much. Overnight low should be 1C with very little wind.

Tomorrow there's a high chance of heavy rain, but at least it will be a little warmer.

One of your better ones. Kind of fits the pattern, somewhat. Useless, buff/debuff, and now offensive.

Annette raised an eyebrow. Well, I guess they really are getting short on cops then? Ni commented. There's a programme about weird mutations and deadly superpowers on Discovery. "Sounds aweful," Annette replied aloud, and switched channels.

(( No way is she watching Prison Break. I mean, that got tired quickly... ))

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you wouldn’t mention it to due to the stigma or lack of understanding attached to it.

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More like, after quite a few years doing it, I've got tired of explaining what 'roleplaying' is.

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whereas the reaction if I’d suggested they roleplay would have been a lot more adverse.

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This suggests that you didn't try and don't actually know what the reaction would have been, you're just making the assumption that they wouldn't understand it, or would consider it 'odd.'

I spent a considerable portion of one family wedding discussing just this kind of thing, though I'll admit that my aunt and her sister are 'non-typical' people. The rest of the family 'get it' to some extent, becasue they've had to put up with me doing this stuff for over 30 years.

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I remember a conversation with a woman at a party a few months ago

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I find it interesting that you consider this the norm. Perhaps I just move in more accepting circles.

And some of my characters will come preconfigured with the badge for Patrol Time

She's a busy girl... lunch with Richard tomorrow, Thursday lessons with Dinah... Friday?

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If anyone deserves a statue for all to see ingame it would be Mothers_Love.

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Um, suck up much?

I would imagine the CoX Vault system was designed to handle this kind of thing. It just hasn't actually made it to a live web server anywhere near anyone.

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I don't know in real I've never though about write it with all its rules but I can try if you tell me that it can be possible in game ...

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Despite GG's protestations, the degree to which a body model can be deformed is almost certainly not enough for the kind of animation I would want to see for this kind of powerset.

So, no, it probably isn't possible with the current graphics engine.

Now... just have to know when...