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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.
I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.
I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.
Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.
Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.
-SoulRiser
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I'm bored and moody so let's write a story together with an RP game. I'll be the GM.
CREATE A CHARACTER
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Notes: extras are optional
Name: [last name] [first name]
Age: [number]
Looks: [appearance]
Race: [species]
(Optional)Element: [element]
Home: [Where they live]
~EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!~ [EXTRAS CATEGORIES]
EX.
Name: Boogarrt Sherry
Age: 3
Looks: A small purple bat with orange fangs and yellow eyes. Also has long blue whiskers
Race: bat
Element: N/A
Home: Norway
~EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!~
Favorite Food: oranges
Bat type: Fruit
Favorite color: Bright colors
RP STYLE
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Not this:
Quote:Sherry: *Flies into cafe* I'd like a cup of orange juice
This:
Quote:Sherry flew into the cafe and said, "I'd like a cup of orange juice." to the cashier.
WORLD FACTS
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Religions
Egyption Mythology
Roman Mythology
Norse Mythology
Greek Mythology
Playing as a god from one of those religions?
1. This is where head canon comes in to create a head canon for your god go here.{didn't make thread yet}
Location Location Location...
Our 7 continents, ya know our world present times
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CHARACTERS
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Name: N/A Ant
Looks: A twelve year old girl with white hair(with bits of clearness), Icy blue eyes and a light blue dress with a shirt and pants of the same color underneath.
Race: God
Element: Ice
Home: Antarctica
~EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!~
A weakness: damaged by heat
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Homework brings the hell of school home.
Gwedin Wrote: Dat feel when you get home, realise it's Friday, and itch your buttcrack.
(This post was last modified: 05-22-2014 03:05 AM by craxyguy562.)
We need a setting first. Tell us where (relatively speaking) the story takes place, what the conflict will be, and any other crucial information to starting the adventure.
I will create a character that would fit within the universe you describe.
Public Service Announcement: First world problems are still problems.
(05-20-2014 07:48 AM)DoA Wrote: We need a setting first. Tell us where (relatively speaking) the story takes place, what the conflict will be, and any other crucial information to starting the adventure.
I will create a character that would fit within the universe you describe.
This.
Also, what all counts as an element?
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What about ice, lightning, dark and so on?
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
Gods don't buy orange juice, they would just summon it...
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
(OOC: Here it is...)Centuries ago in Antarctica, Ant an ice goddess who rules over Antarctica was pacing back and forth. As much as she enjoyed isolation It would be difficult to rule over an area as large as Antarctica. She needed someone to rule by her side. She sat on a chair and thought harder. Suddenly an idea came to her. She created a crown and cast a spell on it so any mortal who found it and put it on their head would gain ice powers and become her fiance. When she was down she blew the crown very far away...
Centuries later in present time...
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Homework brings the hell of school home.
Gwedin Wrote: Dat feel when you get home, realise it's Friday, and itch your buttcrack.
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