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Originally written by wz. As:

I remember the name; am I right in recalling that you had a fondness for classical music? That's about all I remember. Welcome back, from a not-very-active member.

As for major news, eh. Nothing big. Members come and go. Games get released. The usual.

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no, sorry!

Well, good to know somebody remembers the name, anyway. Didn't expect much. I've changed it because I go by finlay on other parts of t'internet, and it's my first name.

Anyway... what's the "social scene" like here? Worth staying around in a non-lurker state for? Who is everybody, anyway? I remember a lot of the "bigger" names, like the ones who create loads of scenarios and have enormous post-counts, but anyway... Who's cool, who's not cool, who's good, who's evil, who likes marmalade, who's old, who's young, who's wise, who posts too much, who's gay, who's loud, who's quiet, who's got a mental disorder, who's crazy, who's stupid, who's childish, who's simply worth mentioning? Just wondering! ;)

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Originally written by spy.there:

:) Welcome back, Cavanoskus!
Where have you been? :P I hope not in a hangover ...

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Originally written by Anomen:

plus alcohol gives the painful sideaffect of a bad hang over in the morn

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Originally written by Maxmillion:

... Come to think of it, he's talking through another Bush....

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Originally written by Bad-Ass Mother Custer:

Ah, a typical countercritique of the Old Glory of the roleplaying world: that if you don't like it, you're just not enough of an artistic personality. You're not creative enough, your imagination isn't free or wide enough, and you don't have the mental capacity to deal with this wonderful world of fantasy.

Bull, bull, a thousand times bull.

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D&D is perhaps the most stultifyingly oppressive RPG I've ever had the displeasure to play. It's a definite and marked anachronism. Rules for everything you could concievably do, determined by statistics and random chance, were fine things to waste tables and pages and books on in the 1970s and 1980s, but nowadays you have these things called computers for that.

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The only meaningful niche for tabletops in the future is going to be as a looser, more freeform and discretionary roleplaying system than the more calculated, gamelike computerized systems.

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Other rule systems try and give more leeway in creating a world and setting, whereas D&D shoves a horrible generic fantasy world down the throat and makes you gargle.

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It's honestly a few steps from Risk with elves.

The rules are literally the most important and distinctive factor, and that's not right.

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I resent D&D because it's the first introduction most have to tabletop roleplaying, and it's completely unrepresentative of what tabletops ought to be; it's an overelaborate board game stretched over an incredibly truncated and generic fantasy world.

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Yes, it was vital to the development of modern CRPGs as we know them, but nowadays it is not only unnecessary but counterproductive. It's the single worst factor in suppressing creativity among RPers and attracting the exact wrong crowd into roleplaying.

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As an RPer and and RPGer, as a player and a DM, I loathe Dungeons and Dragons, and they ought to do one of three things to it: put it in a museum, force it to the periphery and put a more deserving system in the role of first tutor, or reclassify it as a Goddamn war game. Any which way, it shouldn't corrupt new RPGers any more.

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PS- I know that they're interchangeable, but is that Rei Ayanami or Shinji's mother?

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It's Lilith. In other words, all of the above.

You have seen EoE, haven't you?

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Originally written by Cavanoskus:

cav - uh - NOSS - kuss.

The "uh" in the second syllable is an indistinct vowel of the type usually represented by an upside-down "e."

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Since it looks Latin, until now I've pronounced both a's as long...

Is the name derived from anything in any language?

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Originally written by me the master hahaha:

common at least he apologized you gotta give him credit for that and he didn't start flaming her or anything. :P

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Originally written by Solomon Strokes:

Try not to be more offended, but I'm more enamored with the art on your wall than you yourself.
(Hey! Watch where you swing that sword~ >_>)

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Originally written by blade1:

first of all i am yet another kid using this computer or basically another brother of genoforge UR_DRAKON loser3 and of course blade one Im genoforge i cant get into my account right now so ill use dimitris (blade 1)

( im very sorry Cavanoskus that pic was put on my site purely by accident really it was just laying around my computer and i found it and put it on my site that was my original homepage then i stumbled upon your site and saw it was your art but at that point i was purely to stupid to take it out and i didn't call you a liar you arent from what i know of you are a good person i thought i asked you i wasn't positive and me and my several brothers and sisters share what is it paulsmith something i did make the account but i shared it with my brothers and sisters so the all of you are idiots thing was not by me but i was almost positive that i asked you i put all of those links on my page now that you saw them ill take them down and im not going to start flaming you its my fault after all so why should i be mad at you for protecting your own property it's a perfectly fare thing to be mad at me. and no thank you about your offer to help me im just making the site for fun and its a very low priority thing thanks for the offer though

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Originally written by Kelandon:

We know that he stole your stuff, that he's an idiot, that he unjustly called you a liar, and that whatever he might say about you is false.

I'm not sure that there's anything that can be done on these boards particularly, though.

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