Just because your character doesn't like something and you know they are going to have a bad reaction to it/be hurt and upset doesn't mean you shouldn't let them respond to it. No one gets that right in life so why do you have to mess up the RP by having your character do it? Grr!

/small rant.

Gentle folk of BRPS, please take a word of advice from this poor old sock's misery. Be ever-so-cautious when inviting your real life friends into your online RPG life. True, if successful, it'll be a wonderful thing.

But when it fails, oh lordy, does it fail hard. Because unless you've got a really understanding, laid back friend (and if that's the case, you're one step closer to having a more positive experience with them online anyway), then you're going to have to either find some way of broaching the subject of breaking off your RPG relationship (often times a dance more complicated than flamenco) or else you're just going to have to deal with it, both of which quite possibly will end in tears for someone.

Beware! Beware!

Edit: Oh and just in case this wasn't specific enough to warrant a suck, my personal case is that said individual is a high maintenance person. In-person, I don't notice it much since we have quite a wide circle of friends and so I guess the massive desire for attention just gets so divided up it's no strain to anyone. But seeing as I'm the only person this person is role-playing with online, it's like, holy crap! Why have I never noticed your attention-whoring, high-strung, bitch-and-moan personality like this before?!

New Year's Resolution: I will not create drama out of nothing in 2010.

I was completely enjoying the game until last night when a small group of idiots just had to start nothing. I mean, it was NOTHING but I suppose they had to get one last drama-jab in there before the new year. When I see any of that group's posts, they all sound like illiterate children who snuck on to their parents 'puter.  And of course this little group moved on to the next 'shiny' within 24 hours, like they always do. Gotta love the attention span and writing skills of a six year old. Never decent RP from these folks, just the word 'fuck' and many other charming swear words with zero chance for any discussion. Nope, THEY are right and everyone has to bow down to them or they are going to POST a hundred times.. with more swear words and 'NU-UH!' logic. 

Absolutely ridiculous.

It's always a fight with this group of people and it's completely pointless. Much like most of their RPing.

Kids, just pull the damned stick out of your ass. The world DOES NOT revolve around you and your characters. The fact is, no one really likes you.. at all.. and that's your own fault. Every single post is nothing but negative, stupid bullshit and the only comments are from your brain dead friends. And once you find a new thing to be pissed off about, the rest of your lemmings come right behind you and pat your ass and comment as well.  It's pointless and stupid and just not even decent RP. It's just bitching for bitching's sake. Seriously, get a fucking life and just do us ALL a favor and drop out already. Please?  There. That's my Xmas wish a little late. If you hate the 'staff' that much at the school... LEAVE! If you had a decent argument, people might listen. But instead it's all 'fucking' this and 'fucking' that. Yea.. good on ya.. THAT will get their attention.

Stupid idiot.

Did I mention POINTLESS? Good. And in conclusion, SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU SELF CENTERED, ILLITERATE, MORON!  The sheer amount of anger you make me feel every time you comment on something just makes me wish I could climb through the screen and smack the living shit out of you. And I am not a violent person, until I see your name. More than anything, I just feel sick to my stomach. You are just being argumentative for the sake of hearing your own voice (seeing your own words) and frankly, no one fucking cares. You and your lemmings can just go die off a cliff now, thank you. Trust me, you jump, they will all follow.  I'll be glad to offer the first push.

Just thought I'd share what's coming in front of the VA legislature soon, so far. Good stuff, hope it passes! (All copied from the VCDL VA-ALERT, so the commentary is not mine.)


VCDL STRONGLY supports the following bills:

SB 3, Senator Smith (R - Roanoke), clarifies that CHPs can be renewed via the US mail.

HB 8, Delegate Carrico (R - Galax), matching House bill to SB 3.

HB 26, Delegate Wright (R - Victoria), clarifies that a Circuit Court Clerk may not ask for any extra documentation or information from a CHP applicant. This, hopefully, will stop abuse from Fairfax and certain other jurisdictions.

HB 49, Delegate Lingamfelter (R - Woodbridge), repeals "One Handgun A Month" completely! Delegate Lingamfelter already had this bill drafted when I called to ask him to put in such a bill for VCDL! How's that for clairvoyance? ;-)

HB 54, Delegate Cole (R - Fredericksburg), allows for the otherwise lawful carry of a handgun into a courthouse when the courthouse is being used for purposes other than judicial proceedings or official judicial activities. This will allow for lawful carry at things such as the Sussex County Board of Supervisors meetings, which are held at night at the Sussex County courthouse. This bill was put in at VCDL's request.

HB 69, Delegate Carrico (R - Galax), "Virginia Firearms Freedom Act" bill put in for the Virginia Campaign for Liberty (Tea Party group) declares that the Federal Government has no jurisdiction over firearms that are made in Virginia and sold in Virginia. The Federal Government has been overstepping its Constitutional powers for years and this will help put an end to some of those encroachments.

HB 72, Delegate Carrico (R - Galax), reduces the penalty for a firearm carried on K-12 property from a class 6 felony to a class 1 misdemeanor UNLESS the gun is intended to be used, or is used in a crime, in which case the penalty is still a class 6 felony. If the gun is unlawfully possessed and is discharged on K-12 property, there is a mandatory five-year prison term. This protects someone who means no harm, but has inadvertently carried a gun onto school property from having their life destroyed by a felony conviction. This bill was put in for VCDL.

HB 79, Delegate Lee Ware (R - Powhatan/Chesterfield), closes the "Chatham Star Tribune" loophole by preventing Circuit Court Clerks from releasing CHP applicant information to anyone except police in the line of duty. The Chatham Star Tribune continues to print information on concealed handgun permit holders and this will bring an end to such abuse. This bill was put in for VCDL.

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VCDL SUPPORTS the following bills:

HB 32, Delegate Bob Marshall (R - Manassas), allows faculty members with CHPs to be able to carry at state institutions of higher education without fear of being fired or reprimanded. VCDL prefers that students and staff with CHPs also be allowed to carry. The bill is a step in the right direction.

HB 52, Delegate Cole (R - Fredericksburg), sets the penalty for a CHP holder not being in possession of his CHP while carrying to a $25 civil fine that can be waived by the court. Note: the Virginia State Police already has the CHP holder's record showing his status. That information is automatically made available to officers in the field, so carrying the permit shouldn't really be necessary in the first place. However, this bill is a step in the right direction.

I like bubble skirts. There was a rockabilly chick at midnight mass wearing a white silk one. She looked very snazzy. I like this one in the picture even better though because I am pretty sure I had one like that in 1986. I am pretty sure it came from CP Shades.

We get that your character is sexy, a nympho, scantily clad, is rocking a great figure, large breasts, or hot ass, or whatever.

You do not need to include a description of your breasts and butt in every post you make in a chatroom game. It just makes you look desperate for attention.

Thanks.

Store Owner Hopes To Curb New Year's Eve Gun Violence

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/22092766/detail.html

Action Impact Gun Shop owner Bill Kuzak said Wednesday he’s placing a 48-hour moratorium on all ammunition sales.

Kuzak, a former police officer, opened the gun store and range on Eight Mile Road 18 months ago.

Kuzak said that last year he saw the sale of 9 millimeter and shotgun ammunition triple in the days leading up to New Year’s Eve. But, Kuzak added, he thinks the profit is not worth the price the public pays when guns are used recklessly.

“It’s no secret that on New Year’s Eve a number of people, for whatever reason, in an act of celebration, start shooting guns up in the air,” Kuzak said. “Those bullets come down. And I’d rather take a loss than have an innocent person in the Detroit metropolitan area injured.”

EDIT: Right now (12:08am) I hear lots of gunshots. I don't think it worked.

Haskell and his wife, Lori, were aboard Flight 253 when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to destroy the plane. They say another man tried to help Abdulmutallab board the plane in Amsterdam....

Please read and repost. Maybe it's true, maybe it isn't, the more people see it, the easier it will be to tell.

Thus it was, at the V&A, that as I stood in front of a splendid five-foot painted and gilt statue of St Roche and his dog (from about 1540), two women came up and glanced at it. "I like the dog," said one. "He's licking his leg," said the other, and they moved on.

In 1540, every peasant or Cockney in Christendom knew all about St Roche. They could see not only the statue but also what it was about: the saint of the plague years, whose dog licked his sores and brought him bread. For it was always a libel to call stained-glass windows "the Bible of the poor". The poor might not be able to read. But they knew their Bible and saints' lives, or they'd never have been able to make out what the pictures meant. Modern tourists are more ignorant and purblind than the most sore-smeared Chaucerian beggar.

I remember being shocked to pieces when I realized that a travel companion in Europe couldn't understand the first thing about the art she was seeing. I was 19 or 20. The other women in that picture have headcoverings, why doesn't she? Because she's Mary Magdalene. Who?

I still don't really understand how people get to adulthood with nearly nothing from the Western tradition available to them. This article blames TV, but Sister Wendy is on TV. Some people I have had this conversation with blame anti-Western feeling, or have a lot of anti-Western feeling themselves and so think it's obnoxious to expect anyone to know anything about Christian iconography. That doesn't explain why the same people who stand gaping at a picture of a lady with her eyes on a plate are equally incurious about all the little sections in a picture of the wheel of karma.

Interesting fact about the infancy of St Roche, which I discovered because I am curious: the Golden Legend says that he was so devout from such an early age, that when his mother would fast, he would only nurse once that day.

Due to the passage of AB 962 in California, which is designed to disallow most ammo sales, online retailer Cheaper Than Dirt has decided to suspend all ammo sales to every California resident, business, or government agency starting in 2011.

http://daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com/2009/12/ab-962s-real-purpose-realized-pt-ii.html
http://www.examiner.com/x-2581-St-Louis-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m12d31-Online-ammo-retailer-follows-Ronnie-Barretts-principled-example

I find this type of news very welcome.

In Finland on Thursday, a man went on a shooting spree in a shopping mall, killing his ex-girlfriend (who had taken out a restraining order against him) and four other mall workers, before killing himself.

Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media are spinning this story as an example of why guns should be banned (Finland is one of the few European countries without heavy gun control), but there are important aspects to the story whose significance is being ignored

( What Is That? )

But yeah. More gun control. Because someone planning a mass murder would never dare break any laws.

And of course restricting immigration by people who are culturally-conditioned to think of women as property and violence as manly could never cause problems. Better toss into prison anyone who points this out.

I'm glad I'm an American.

Right.

German hell-raiser Nina Hagen pens Jesus book

As a Nina Hagen fan, I'm slightly bummed out by this. She did covers of religious songs now and then (Spirit in the Sky, and her Om Namah Shivay album for example) but I took these more as artistic then spiritual choices (besides experimenting with Hinduism in the latter, but that's relatively harmless).

Oh well, it happened to Betty Page as well.