Harrassment during RP

Wasn't that one of the April Fools Day jokes?

Heh, well each to their own I always say myself. But you are quite right about fuel for the rumor mill.

Maybe, just maybe... it IS the same idiot! Only the idiot isn't actually an idiot, it's an alien invader like in that movie, 'The Hidden', and it's possessing random players and making them throw snowballs are RPers!

It COULD happen!

Or, well, they could RP it that way...

I'm not directly familiar with Riolo (or maybe I just forgot him), but I am familiar with the research surrounding prisoner's dilema strategies, aka "tit for tat." It was a million years ago, but I believe I became aware of tit for tat around the same time I became interested in Core War (I probably first became aware of both around 1984 via articles in Scientific American).

The prisoner's dilema's contests are another line of research that suggests there is no inevitable specific evolutionarily derived biological imperative to be a jerk-wad.

Like the joke about the two guys facing a bear and one starts lacing his sneakers.
"What are you doing? You can't outrun a bear."
"I don't have to outrun the bear; I just have to outrun you."

The trick is to tie the other guy's laces together.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Obviously you never heard of what happened to alt.pizza.delivery.drivers, the well planned shenanigans of those who frequented alt.fan.karl-malden.nose, or the legends surrounding alt.syntax.tactical.

Hoorah!

This is probably the first post I've seen from FFM in months and it brought good news

lol, as much as I like the way you put that, I would have to say that life in general tends to be a bit more complex than the scoring system that the prisoner's dilemma game would imply.

Aye, I've not been posting much lately... Kind having a break and stuff... I'm in game once in a while for a little RP, but otherwise... Just biding my time until GR...

That's my plan for after Christmas, I sorta need a break. Got Tekken 6 L4D2 and hopefully a couple others to bide me over for some time

I was a BBS Sysop!

Originally Posted by eltonio This is over the top mental slavery.

Yup. The difference is, everyone CAN outrun the bear. There's just bound to be some guy who wants to give the bear a good talking to first.

Originally Posted by eltonio This is over the top mental slavery.

So, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?

That isn't true. The only way that it could possibly be true would be if I could turn off my feelings on command. But I can't, and I don't think that most other people can either. If I could turn off my feelings so that words didn't have power over me, then I could also turn off my feelings so that when someone dies, I wouldn't have to feel sad.

Words are symbols that we use to share our thoughts and feelings with others. If words didn't convey feelings, then we couldn't easily share them. Most people care what other people think of them, and caring is what makes people vulnerable to the words of other people.

If words didn't have power, then no one would ever speak an insult or a slur. Insults and slurs exist in the language. Those kind of words are intended to hurt, that is their purpose. Words can uplift and inspire as well as injure and demean. Words do have power.

The other thing that bothers me about the quoted statement, is the implication that it is the listener's fault if the words hurt. This isn't true either. If a word is spoken with the intent to injure someone, it is the fault of the speaker, not the listener. The speaker had choice. The listener cannot unhear a word. Volition and intent are what marks the speaker as the offender. It really doesn't matter if the listener took offense or not.

It is possible for misunderstandings to occur, for a listener to take offense where none was intended. Language isn't perfect.

I am only objecting to the statement I quoted above. I doubt 'lolrp' was intended to injure. It looked to me like a flippant thoughtless comment. I wouldn't have commented on the quoted bit either, except that I saw a couple of posts applauding it. I felt inspired to disagree.

They are loud, flashy and irritating?

It'd be some what like having some one flash their car lights through the window, while honking their horn loudly, while you are playing [Insert PnP RP Game OF Choice Here].

I just said it proves its not inevitable, not that it isn't more common than desirable.

First, a prerequisite "people play the game with the sound on?! :O"

Second, your metaphor doesn't really make too much sense given the nature of the game. A more apt one would be "it'd be like having someone flash their car lights while honking their horn loudly, while you've stopped in the middle of a busy parking lot before actually parking to play [Insert PnP RP Game OF Choice Here]."

I mean.. the only powers turned off in Pocket D are teleporting powers. Heck, I'd even say the Ski Chalet area almost requires power usage given the attractions.

Of course - it doesn't feel right without it on

Everyone and their cat was a Sysop.
Well, maybe not all the cats, but I was too.
And I was one of the first in the crowd to have a 2400 baud modem.

Let me 'splain. That basically means it communicated at 2400 bits per second over a phone line. If you have a connection like Verizon FIOS, you might have 10 or more Mbps (megabits, or millions of bits, per second). So basically, I was using two cups and a string.

And Teleport is only suppressed in the club itself to keep people from gatecrashing the VIP Room. It works fine by the chalet.