As said, feel free to post in the Code Vault. I'm going to go ahead and close this. Any problems, PM me.
That is not always true. Animals at certain times of the year can be much more aggressive than normal, trying to scare off animals or people that go in their domains. Especially during mating seasons because they are in competition with each other and well, the males are extremely hormonal. Big herd animals like cows, buffalo, deer, caribou, elephants, etc can be very volatile at times. Other times they are just fine. Some animals attack humans to eat them. We are not always on the top of the food chain as we like to think we are. Also, some animals stroll into human areas and may be rather violent if hungry, whether we are on the menu or not. Bears, coyote, wild dogs, wolves, cougars, tigers, lions, alligators, komodo dragons when in their areas, etc have all gone into human areas to get food, smaller animals, or to find small humans. We can also roam in their territories and learn how rough it can be. Some smaller animals like vampire bats can even be a problem as they get into people's tents and bite them. There's an epidemic of rabies possibly going on in Venezuela now because of that. Some animals won't actively seek us out or go 'territorial' and do get 'surprised' by humans, sure. However, if you are being -attacked- by an animal and cannot scare it off, climb up a tree, step back slowly and get away from it, well...it's going to go after you. We can't help it if accidentally we step near a rattle snake. If I can avoid it and step back, I will, but if it's attacking me, I am going to stop it. If I get bit, I am going to try to kill it so I can verify to doctors what bit me. That's how it goes. I'm certainly not going to go out of my way ever to enrage an animal, but if I have to fight for survival and there's no way out, then I'm going down fighting or that animal is. Nature is not all as lovey dovey as some people here are painting it. I love nature and love going in the woods and nature seeing etc, but the fact is that it's not just always peaceful. I will feel bad if I had to kill something that obviously I probably am not going to eat, but eh, I'm not going to feel that I was wrong for it either as it is out of protection. I wouldn't feel guilty if a person tried to kill me and I ended up killing him or her. They made the stakes when they decided to -kill- me. It's the rules of life.
That was hard to guess. You are kind of a furry or into wolf clans, aren't you? I'd probably be a Liger. They just are cool.
That wasn't really that funny. It was mildly funny at best. >.>
I'd look for my favorite movie and make sure it was set so in an hour it would end, and my favorite song would begin, and then *boom* Of course, if I could do this in a bomb shelter, that'd be nice but if not, I'd be chillin at home.
I'm going to move this to the Help section so that it might be more addressed and it belongs there.
Please stop making 'who do you like better' threads. They are spam. Make them in the Spam Zone. This is your second warning here.
Giga-pets or something like that would probably be a good idea if they made something specific to the purpose of this. I do agree both genders should do the caring thing because I don't feel it promotes sex as much as people think. Instead it promotes natural parental care instincts to be awakened and to hone adolescents for learning benevolence and tolerance etc. Children actually play 'mom and dad' when they are little and part of growing up really is to play, for both humans and animals. I think people are way too worried that being given a doll promotes the desire to have sex and make a baby. Instead I think it promotes understanding and maybe there wouldn't be so many abusive parents or parents that just fail all around and neglect kids etc if a bit more attention were guided in this direction.
Rights are what a society deems that people in it are entitled to. Otherwise there really are no such thing at all as rights. Rights also can be taken away or given within any sort of power structure. We've definitely in history been able to see that rights are actually more equated to 'fancy privileges' for members of a society. Really, in the end, we probably should just call them privileges instead because they don't mean anything more and the only thing that makes them 'rights' is that people fought for them to be held stronger so that they can't just slip away so easily. As for religion in that view...throughout history again, people have been persecuted for believing in a religion or not believing in any. All religions in my view are just glorified cults that society has deemed is appropriate in that area to have. There is only one difference between a cult and a religion and that is a cult is not accepted by the majority of the society. My apologies to those I offend but it is a personal view and not intended to disassociate people based on their views. In the end, if people believe in religions, it certainly doesn't mean I would say they aren't friends. We can agree or disagree with what friends and family members think but it doesn't mean we have to hate them. We can certainly love them for other qualities. Should religion be banned though because some people (including myself) see it as people believing in imaginary friends that they can get stuff from, blame their problems on, blame their good fortune on, blame every natural disaster on, etc? No, I don't believe so. Where do we draw the line on our creativity? If religions are banned, it would be plausible to also ban role-playing games, cosplay, novelists and artists from creating works of art, children from having imaginary friends, etc. Though religions have definitely tried to ban all sorts of things from works of art, books, role-playing games, sexual things they feel are inappropriate, children's creativity and imagination, etc, they have failed to utterly do so. I believe that banning religion just because some feel it is fake and a crutch, as well as something that messes up many people's lives is just not going to happen either. I don't think it would be fair to do so. Religions even try to wipe out each other all the time and reduce other religions to cult status constantly, but in the end, our minds will continue to create, whether positively or negatively. However, there are some things I will say that I do not feel should be tolerated, and yet they are. If a person dressed up like a vampire and mauled someone because their 'RP' went too far, we'd arrest them without a doubt and lock them up for mental rehabilitation. If a child talks to an imaginary friend at school and such, that kid gets mocked the hell out of and parents become embarrassed and the kid may even have to go to therapy. If someone is cosplaying and wears clothes that are indecent or does it all of the time, people may have that person admitted or they may run into legal trouble or be beaten up. If someone doesn't want to do 'missionary' style and wants to do other things or a woman is promiscuous they are labeled all sorts of names unjustly and some people will try to mess with them awfully. Video games, fantasy and sci-fi things often are labeled very badly and some feel Harry Potter is the devil's work. Now if someone is put in jail or mental rehab, religion is often a way they can get out early, even if their crimes were religious spurned in nature. The way to rehabilitate people off drugs is to use a 12 step program that incorporates religion in it, despite the fact only 10% at -most- ever fully heal from using it and most people who do recover by other means say they did it by willpower and the thought that their lives could be better and actually mean something. Religion shouldn't replace willpower and self-esteem. Charities are given to lesser fortunate people and religion surrounds the 'good deed' making it not so charitable after all. You shouldn't need to read the Bible or attend a religious class to change your viewpoints to get an inoculation or a bowl of rice. People can go about knocking on people's doors and harassing them to join their religion and also make big money off religions and think that because they are delivering the word of God that they have a right to bother people because they are actually out 'saving' people. These are all wrong to me. Religion, just like role-playing, cosplaying, having an imaginary friend etc, is a personal choice. If someone wants to believe in a deity, that's fine by me but they should keep it to themselves and find other -like- people to share it with, just like role-players and gamers go and find similar people to themselves to hang out with and share good times. Soliciting is still soliciting whether it is for a religion or not. It should be illegal. I should also not get weird pamphlets on my door or in my mailbox -ever- that some religious nut put there, avoiding paying for a thing, and find it just as rude as when someone puts a food business flier on my door and doesn't pay for postage etc to mail me it. I can take one to court. I can't take the religious one to court because then I get asked 'why am I so offended?' and told it's their right to spread the word. I also don't think religions should get tax write-offs above being considered corporations that are 'not for profit'. People -are- giving them money and not all of it is going to charity or maintaining the church itself. Not-for-profit organizations get their members paid but with income that is reasonable. Religions to me are big corporations or small businesses based on the size and affiliation. They should be treated as such. Corps all the time do work for others. They aren't getting as many free handouts and why? They don't merit them. Attach the word 'God' to it and suddenly a group gets whatever they want. In the end, I think that religion in itself doesn't have to be a bad thing and I don't think it should be eliminated by force by any means. Some groups of religions have toned down dramatically and aren't so much a harm and I can even walk in believing as I do and no one discriminates me there. I sang for a choir for a Catholic church to help out and no one bugged me at all. Others like the Evangelical movement, I see as being more powerful at this time to the point their 'votes count'. Just because they try to suffocate out other things doesn't mean others should do the same to them. They have failed and those of us who don't believe in religion would also fail. However, I think there needs to be a defining line that is made to say what is allowed and not allowed for religious orders and groups to do, whether cults or big established religions. If charity is done, it should be wholesome and benevolent and without the goal of converting people to their religions. If soliciting is done, these people should be able to be taken away by cops and given orders to not carry out such acts anymore. If someone is in prison, good behavior should not mean finding a God. It should mean that the person is actually a changed person with values that will let him/her live in society with all people and others don't have to fear a relapse. Fanatics/zealots should get treated like other fascists that do things to harm people and put away if they steal, pillage, rape, kill etc. And people who are delusional and use God as a reason to do something heinous should be institutionalized the same way as a role-player that goes mad. The 10 Commandments idiots that want to put them in schools and courts or nutjobs that want to rewrite our Constitution to put 'God' in it like Huckabee should be treated the same way they treat kids with imaginary friends. Respecting the fact that not everyone feels as you do is a keen thing to learn so that we -all- have the rights to be -ourselves- and yet helpful in society. If people could keep their religion or lack of religion to themselves the world would be a far better place. We'd actually start to realize people are more than just if they believe in something or not. We have many facets to our natures and banning religion to me is no better than when religions have killed non-believers and labeled people as heretics. In the end there is no way to prove whether God exists or not anymore than the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It doesn't give a reason to eliminate religion, nor does it give a reason for religion to dominate over people's lives who don't want it. Either side could be right. Either one could be wrong. Both could be wrong. You take a chance either way and it's a personal decision to do that, regardless of what rights exist at any given time.
Changing the Fantasy RP to Sci-fi/Fantasy is fine by me as there were already sci-fi RPs in that section any way and it just gives them a place to belong. I fail to see how it in any way 'kills the rp mood' at all. It also lets for RPs like steampunk to be placed easier as they can go in Sci-Fi or Fantasy, depending on the creator's mood and storyline. Extended RP is different and if you'd but browse and read the rules for the area and check the RPs out you'd see why it's in its own section. People commit a lot of time to doing story RPs with focus to plot and moving them along in a different manor than other RPs. It's like free-form table top RPs and takes a lot of creative writing to do that is not found elsewhere and can be of any genre. It is there to help find the RPs because otherwise they get lost all of the time with how rapid other RPs move because people do post shorter posts elsewhere and there is no requirement elsewhere to do otherwise. Those of us who like the area may be a small number of members but it helps us to keep things organized too and have our section. In the end that's why all the sections exist, whether some areas have a lot of 'spam' or not. People can choose the type of RP they want to run and gain members for and have the freedom to do as they please. Classing the RPs means that members can browse around at leisure and find what they want easier. Some people love crossover RPGs and others don't. They'd be harder to find if just left in the regular Kingdom Hearts RP area and also some crossover RPs don't deal with KH at all. The organization is rough as the area gets cleaned up but in the end players can ask for RPs to be moved to other areas they find more appropriate and members can look through and see what they like. Maybe the place needs some more TLC to organizing it, but I don't find the divisions themselves to be a problem. If anything it's helped so that many RPs aren't lost behind ones that move more quickly and it saves time finding RPs by genre so it's actually less of a hassle than going through every single RP and finding one you want.
No more Roxas vs Sora threads etc. You can post if you like someone more in some other topics that are for characters in general. This is considered spam.
This is being closed. No more Sora vs Roxas or Namine vs Kairi threads. They are spam.
Tastes vary in RP style and a lot of people like to just do funny RPs with scenes that are more important than an actual plot. That's just the way it goes. There are some longer RPs with plot/story lines in there as well but you do have to search around. Since there are no rules for the area other than the guideline for the site as a whole, members can make what they want and express the RPs as they choose. Making your own RP is a good idea if you want something with more of an actual story line. There are members that will play and meet the standards of the creator of the thread and so far mine I created has done pretty well so not everyone is into just one type of RP. Go for creating your own if nothing meets your tastes.
The shortest time I've ever heard of someone leveling to 100 on Destiny Islands was 288 hours, which was also posted on Youtube. Not that I want to say there's a fib made, but it seems rather impossible since I was up to level 50 something on DI after a few days and said screw it and saved the game to come back to it. As for where I spent most time leveling up... Hollow Bastion and Traverse Town were my main stays for getting up in levels, though to get the materials for synthesis, that kept me moving around and I tended to just level up 10 at each world if I could.
NUUUUUU!!! Ok. :)
I don't mind in the end of not being included if it is that much work. I had no idea how long it was going to be and time consuming.
Pika, you miss the point of what it is all about. Post count areas are not just about members getting points. It is a way to help keep the forums clean in those areas and encourage people to keep on topic, not use txt talk, and be understood so that conversation and interaction can happen on various things that are important to the site. It is not about post count whoring. The Spam Zone and other areas where posts don't count exist so that members have a more free time to post what they want and they can go off topic, type how they want and have some freedom to express themselves so long as they follow the other rules that are general for the entire forum. The posts don't count for this reason but also the members can do what they want here and in that way, obviously not many people seem to care about post count if they post here and get the freedom to do so how they want. So some areas are more moderated than others to keep things in order. Others aren't as much but for keeping an eye on content to make sure it's appropriate for all ages. Post counts go for one group and don't for the other. You can post any way you want to in this section, with essays or two words. There's no way to sit there and go through and say 'well Pika wrote an essay here even though it's in the Spam Zone so let's give him a post count point'. You -chose- to do the deed there. No one forced you to or said there were any such demands to. You could have wrote 2 words for all we care in this area. That is the luxury of the Spam Zone, the Rp section etc. Just because you feel entitled to write such things does not mean that you should get rewarded more than someone who writes 'my lif sux'. If you write a paragraph that is on topic in another area that counts, good for you. You met the criteria and aren't going to get your post deleted. It contributed to the area and helped keep a topic moving in the right direction. Your suggestion just isn't going to happen regardless of how much you counter argue. Your counter-argument is all about 'points' and not every member really gives a care because most can figure out how to get to Premium and -most- do post quality posts in the sections for points. Yes, some do care too much about points and not about quality but they also sooner or later get caught up to. Why is this points issue so important any way? I just am not seeing the point as anyone can get Premium simply with a little work. A little work perhaps makes some things in life more worth it. So really...why all this 'points' discussion in the first place? Why care so much?
Repliku me me me me..just because I really am curious to see how this turns out.
Ah, very good then. So that's who taught you the pencil trick.
The above post is just too...furry for me. lol Any way, I'd give the cookies to some starving kids in some poor country where they aren't likely to actually get such cool things as cookies regularly.
