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You were totally right, they just played the actual Heavensward theme.

Some of us like shrill garage punk, thank you very much.

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If I remember correctly, what I just read in his post states that he is stepping down for personal reasons. I doubt I'm the only one - new as I may be - that sees this comment of yours as a bit of a stretch. 1. The thread is posted in Off-Topic, which I would believe everyone browses for some laughs and insanity. 2. The original posts were simply in place to establish how silly the accusation of "police state" was. 3. From there the conversation simply grew as a conflict. The masses love conflicts. Don't believe me, watch the news. Conflict conflict filler conflict. And so more people - such as myself - threw their hat into the ring. And so here we are. I don't think this thread as a whole reflects negatively on the RPC, and while everyone is entitled to their own opinions, I personally find that making obscure statements that impede upon the privacy that another has asked for is nothing short of rude. Let individuals discuss what they will, but don't name drop. And most certainly do not drop names for reasons which you do not truly comprehend. I'm just going on a limb here and guessing that in addition to this topic Freelance's private message box is probably stuffed with angry messages. I don't know Freelance at all really, but watching what goes on here all the time and having been a mod elsewhere I've seen what angry forum users will do to an inbox, and there's certainly a LOT more anger here than where I was a mod. So yeah, I'm speculating about private reasons, but that's a far cry from name dropping. Name dropping is something you do to make yourself seem more important in a certain community. I don't see how bringing up Freelance's PUBLIC statement to step down and speculating that it might be because managing this place is a nightmare is name dropping. Finally, I don't see the point in telling me to "let people" do anything. I'm not a mod and would never ever seek to be one here after seeing the shit this community is capable of stirring up. So how about we turn that back on you and I tell you to "let me" say my piece about a topic that I frankly think is shitting up the community here?

I don't think posts like this really help the situation any. I am lamenting that non game/RP related posts are taking over ^ This here. The RPC has increasingly become more about arguing the meta of the website itself than having to do with role-play. Hell, if it were me in control this topic would have been gone the moment I saw it. And if OP and others didn't like it or wanted to cry about a "liberal police state", I'd tell them that the RPC is a privately owned website and that I didn't owe them shit. They're free to go make their own role play website where tedious off topic debate is allowed.

Rakka'li had huge problems with impulse control and a depressive bend to his personality that caused him to lash out at people in very mean ways. The latter was occasionally so bad that RPers flat out disliked me OOCly because of it.

This topic having over a hundred replies and thousands of views is just sad. No wonder Freelance is jumping the admin ship.

While an interesting idea, I'm very, very hesitant to give approval to the idea of going around using modern astronomy understanding in character. Stuff like "gas giant", "type-O", and "thirty times greater than our own star" is making a HUGE number of assumptions regarding the cosmology of XIV's universe. Additionally, I suspect that Astrologians only study the MOVEMENT of the stars and use that as a way to divine predictions and cast spells, it remains to be seen if they have a real scientific understanding of what they are - giant balls of gas undergoing nuclear fusion to produce great amounts of energy. I actually think it very unlikely they have that great an understanding, though I could be wrong.

/profuse coughing fit Ok grow a pair, if you know about real-life kunoichi you'd understand Anime kunoichi are nothing like real life kunoichi in history, who were just regular spies that overheard conversations or built trust that masqueraded as priestesses, geisha, or flat out prostitutes. Heck, real ninja were nothing close to what's depicted in anime and pop culture.

I'm of the opinion there's an entire subset of internet people who attempt to co-opt actual illnesses specifically for the attention and inferred glamour or exoticism. They call it tumblr these days. Before that it was LiveJournal. Yes I know tumblr isn't all bad. I use mine to follow artists and reblog shit that amuses me.

On a more serious note.. The only time I've ever been put off is when someone RPs a character with a dozen mental problems, and mostly because they want to beat everyone else in the "tortured soul" race. RP them with the respect and gravity they deserve and you're fine. Except amnesia, because even if you research it and do it correctly people won't recognize it for what it is, as it's been so horribly misrepresented in pop culture that even many educated people are totally ignorant about how it actually presents and affects an individual.

I'm impressed this hasn't degenerated into "playing a character with mental illness is offensive and might land you in jail". Good show HRC,

Something I wrote for one of my many abandoned novels:

From the Silmarillion:

There is some inconsistency as illiterate people are inderrepresemted in the setting. But we could argue all day whether the in-game portrayal overruled the devspeak. Personally I think our PCs run in mostly educated circles.

Of course I have. None of these behaviors are shit talking. This is shit talking: Graeham is probably just another yaoi obsessed girl roleplaying a "bisexual" guy in an eye rolling way. You know that way where you can tell the person has never been in an IRL relationship before and you can just tell? Her only saving grace is that Graeham isn't Miqo'te. THAT is shit talking. It's subjective mean spirited opinion that doesn't even care about the truth. Also please note I don't think any of this. It's just an on the fly arbitrary example. This is not shit talking: Graeham made a post that conflates telling a friend about a dirty look as shit talking. I think that's way off the mark. It's kind of irritating that people think my public disagreements and opinions about how role play should be means that I must participate in the same closed door private shit talking they all do.

Speak for yourself, unless you just mean your own social circle? Seriously, this is not something "we all" do. Look over my post history, if I talk anything close to shit I'll do it publicly. It also helps that I don't really talk to anyone here outside of the forum itself. Yeah dawg that's what I'm saying, if you make call outs publicly, I'm pretty sure you make em privately. Everyone complains about something in privacy even the most openly vocal, regardless of your association. Except I don't. Like I said, it really helps that I don't interact with any of you outside of the forum.

Speak for yourself, unless you just mean your own social circle? Seriously, this is not something "we all" do. Look over my post history, if I talk anything close to shit I'll do it publicly. It also helps that I don't really talk to anyone here outside of the forum itself.

Speak for yourself, unless you just mean your own social circle? Seriously, this is not something "we all" do.

While there's certainly room for scholars in a world that's mostly illiterate, the word of god dispelled any doubt about the average level of literacy. Word of God: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/187844-Hunt-Bills?p=2375917#post2375917 I imagine it's much like early-mid Renaissance literacy rates, which means literacy rates are as low as 5% or as high as 40% depending on where you are. I'm basing that on Eorzea being most like the early-mid Renaissance period, and in no way should be taken as official. (The 40% rate would be found among merchant groups who employ notaries for example.) An example of Eorzean writing: Despite all this, I do think it's very likely that many people can recognize some written words, even if they can't spell them out themselves. Arbitrary example behind my reasoning: let's imagine an illiterate Eorzean whose job is to lug around barrels all day that are labeled "wine" or "ale". Illiterate or not you'll eventually pick up on what these words look like. Being illiterate isn't the same as being stupid after all.

In conjury spells are cast by concentrating ambient aether with a focus until it becomes the spell you need it to be, I don't think you actually have to be standing on ground to cast the spell 'stone', as the caster is making the element out of the ambient aether around you.

Duh, the hard part of ANY content in this game is coordinating everyone doing their part. Titan EX is easy if everyone does their part. Final Coil turn 4 is easy if everyone does their part.

SoF will probably just be possible to win now even if you miss the chains and dragon killer device.

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Livia's weapon? I don't see how it was lacking in effectiveness. She ascended to a very high rank within the Garlean Military and whilst the Warrior of Light succeeded at beating her that only happened after Limsa, Ul'dah and Gridania were persuaded to make a last ditch effort to fight against the invading Garleans. Applying real world 'realism' to fantasy weapons is a pretty slippery slope though. Yes... that's my point exactly. I brought up Livia's banghnaks as an example of something that would be even less effective than a gunblade IN REAL LIFE being effective in the game world as a response to the criticism that gunblades are dumb. This gives gunblades a pass in my mind.