*pats the fire on her out* Yeah. I think he disappeared when he realised no one weak or defenceless was on that he though he colour hurt either of us with.
Typical. He has two people on and he waits to torment Star. Though there isn't much left of her. If I could find her I'd heal her when he isn't around.
All I know is she's in a forest somewhere. Its so annoying! He said to me he's hurting her to break me. If that's true then I'm the reason she's suffering.
Never listen to Alastair. He wants to hurt you. Do not give him the satisfaction, he's like a bully, if you don't give him the reaction he wants he'll eventually hurt someone else. I know it sounds hard but you got to. Aro didn't want to hurt Ari but he did it to try to stop Alastair, notice Alastair can't be bothered with Aro now
But what am I supposed to do? I don't even understand! Do I have to carry on being 'irritatingly happy?' Do I not protect my friends from him? I don't get what he's wanting!
I mean, I asked him why he was hurting people. He said, I'm not overly selective. I just like to see people in pain. And may I say, you were so irritatingly cheerful. It's disgusting. There's also the fact that you think I can't break you. Because I can guarantee that no matter who you've met, there is no one on this planet like me. I'm always watching, vampire, and I'm more powerful than you can imagine. In a little over 500 years, I have devastated the human race time and time again. You're out of your league. I asked him why he didn't just hurt me. He said, Because you'd like that better. I've seen you in fights, vampire. You like them. Even when you're nearly killed, it hardly bothers you. But you're always quick to defend your friends. Pain isn't only about physicality. I wanted to see you desperate, tearing yourself apart to try to save the defenseless Star, all in vain. Torturing isn't enough on its own. I intend to break you. And you're already playing right into it.
Then carry on happy. Show him you can't be broken. Alastair thinks he's tough, he's done things to humans but prove him wrong. He knows what hurts me but you he can't totally hurt. If you just show him up.
I don't suppose just telling you how to get rid of you will make you understand, will it?
Well, you lot are just as dramatic. Perhaps it would do you good to learn a lesson about him, though I don't know when that will happen. I, myself, am one of the few from the previous summer to figure it out. Perhaps you all will as well...
Or perhaps not, in which case you all get murdered in the process.
I am unsure what this speech is for anymore, just that if you don't start thinking about the psychology behind his ways, then you all are certainly doomed.
You may have figured the creep out but not everyone can claim to be as 'intelligent' as you. So maybe if you have nothing helpful to say other then you figured out his ways, then don't bother. He isn't even targetting anyone from the summer who he did, so its pointless for me to work up fear of him.
Downloading? Tut tut zaf. Tut tut :-) I hope you like it! It nearly made me cry! The only reason I didn't cry was because I was at the cinema and I refuse to cry I in public!
Olaf is so cute. He represents so much of Elsa. Okay well I will hold back the spoilers for now. A soon as you've finished watching (and possibly crying) you have to tell me what you though of it!
Back! And star I know your not trying to defeat him. I don't think anyone is. I mean, I wouldn't mind trying to but for now I'm just trying to get him off our backs.
Silente could find you by your blood. It's all I've got. I mean I know if we wait for Alastair we'll never get you back, I just say go while he isn't around to stop us.
Er...tracking by blood is quite dangerous...I mean first of all I'd need some of her blood. Then there's a chance I wouldn't be able to keep a hold of myself. And its insanley hard to track WHILE human anyway. I mean what if I dont find her but I lose it and attack you instead..
Its fine! It was a thought. I just hate knowing...knowing he hurt her. I have Cleavers and operatives searching for Ari. Its just...it doesn't make sense. Niccolò was the dominant name, how did Alastair get control? I mean it'd be hard, he would have to surpress Nic and Ari....I just don't know how...*sighs* This is why he shouldn't have made that link with Ari!! He cares way too much for her and names take advantage!! Why is it he can't listen!!
Okay good. *grabs two needles* *comes back* Right here's the two needles we need. This one *holds up the clear needle* is my serum. This one *holds up a black solution* makes me turn. I'll inject myself with this. When I do give me the knife. After I change I should head after star. If not you need to use all your magic to get me under control and make me sniff that knife okay? Ready?
Okay. *takes off shoes and puts them in the bag of clothes* *steps back a bit* *takes a deep breath* *jabs the needle into her forearm and presses down the plunger* *starts shuddering and shaking* Knife!
*bites down on the knife between her teeth* *shudders and shakes violently back and forth* *claws sprout from fingers* *curls down onto her haunches* *moans in pain* *stands straight as her hands go to her stomach and rip free her human skin* *the beast beneath curls and sits a second* *it spits the now Clean knife from its mouth and starts running into the woods*
Down by the Riverside motel, It's 10 below and falling By a 99 cent store she closed her eyes And started swaying But it's so hard to dance that way When it's cold and there's no music Well your old hometown is so far away But, inside your head there's a record That's playing, a song called
Hold on, hold on You really gotta hold on Take my hand, I'm standing right here Gotta hold on hold on.
I like not knowing most of Tom Waits' music, because every so often I end up listening to a song of his that I haven't heard before, and it's so much more amazing than just listening to each album through, normally. It's all kind of spaced out, and I've already deduced how important all of the huge space between things is. So, yeah. :)
But then, it's kind of scary to think that one day I'll have gotten through all of them. And then you don't get that space any more. But... I guess that by then, you have all of those songs existing somewhere in your head, and maybe the full addition to your mental library, having them all there... Perhaps that's so good that you're kind of working towards that, anyway? Because then you CAN listen to all of the albums through normally, and you know all of the song, and that's positive, right? idk.
*pauses a second before lunging left* *weaves through the trees* *sees a small rocky overhang far in the distance* *starts going faster making deep furrows in the ground*
@Silente: He tracked her by following her blood. Like a breadcrumb trail, with blood. Blood trail. Trail. ("SHALLOW SKIN, I CAN PAINT WITH PAIN I MARK THE TRAILS OF MY ARMS WITH YOUR DISDAIN EVERY DAY IT'S TEH SAME, I LOVE, YOU HATE BUT I GUESS I DON'T CARE ANYMORE")
If I disappeared from one place and just appeared in another, there will be no trail. Just, like, a dot in one place and a dot in another, rather than a line. So how are you meant to track me?
You could just wander around looking for the other dot, I guess, but . . .
((No because remember that creepy scene where he's perched at the window outside her house and said he always knew where she was, that he'd always follow her, that he'd be her guardian angel. It might have been before she was cut with shadows by the 'death bringer'))
And furthermore, the forest is massive. I could be days away.
(Really sorry for raining on your parade. D: I'm a pedant. I get stuck on small detail. Me and my friend C, when writing a method for an experiment, spent about five minutes arguing over things like whether we needed a test tube holder or whether we could hold it whilst we put the magnesium in, who would hold it, which order we should write it in (like, whether we should say 'put the magnesium in then start the stopwatch' or the other way around, and all that kind of stuff. That is how bad I am with all the little details. So yeah.) (I'm sorry. D:) (But I have to nitpick and complain about these small things, because . . . Well, because you can't just DISREGARD THEM. . . . Maybe I should just shut up. :P)
@Silente: *sighs* Look. Following Valkyrie is easy. You just follow her blood trail. When she teleports with Fletcher, it is hard, because then you have to wander around until you find her again, but you can guess where she might be and stuff. But she doesn't suddenly teleport a few billions miles away to somewhere she would never be expected to be and stay there without coming back, like I did. (I'm sorry. D:)
((Okay I can't find it but then again I haven't looked very well. I swear its in there. He's crouched outside her living room window and he says he'll be her guardian angel. He says he can always find her now he'd tasted her blood. He also rambles on about controlling the beast...anyway)) *sprints towards the rocky outcrop dodging between the trees* *her vision can make out two figures* *her gaze locks onto one and she speeds up*
Hm. I can't comment - I don't know how tracking abilities work. Is it a trail, as Star says, or an "I CAN SMELL YOU. Always. *creepy smile*" deal? idk. Good luck with that? ^^
Aw, *hugs Adra* Awesome for him, though. Maybe you'll get your own chance another time?
*sits up* *brushes self off* *returns hat to its accustomed jaunty angle* *stands up* *and sets off down the street* *whilst whistling 'Singing in the Rain'*
((For reference- he didn't put her far from the clearing. She's not really hidden, either. She's just barely too far from the clearing to see it. It isn't far.))
Ha found it! Mortal Coil Hard back page 296 chapter 29 'Her Guardian Angel' 'Caelan sat back against the wooden fence of the garden. Finding her had been easy. Now that he had tasted her blood, there was nowhere she could go that he couldn't follow.'
*waves hand* Don't mind me. I'm just bumbling along.
*wonders what to do with my newfound riches* *makes a beeline for the nearest slushy shop* *returns with a blue raspberry slushy* *sips it as I continue down the street* *in search of adventure*
Injured Magical Prince Lying In A Ditch: Please, pretty lady! Won't you help break the curse that the wicked witc-
*walks past him*
Injured Magical Prince Lying In A Ditch: Well, screw you! *sulks*
(Just gonna drop in that I suck at rp, don't actually have myself a character, get confused quickly, and am too lazy to amend any of those problems, so I probably won't be joining the action-ly-part, fun as it looks. :P ) (which is fine, bc watching is good. It's easier to see things, kind of.) (though seeing things is kind of the whole point of watching so I'm not sure what I meant by that) (I think I'm just giving myself reasons to self-contradict) (which kind of turns into a form of rambling) (aimless, aimless rambling) (I don't know) (idk) (I think my point is that I'm not, like, neglecting the rp or anything, I'm just watching) (it's cool) (like... Listening to a band, rather than actually being in that band. If that makes sense?) (Or... idk) (yeah.)
*RIPPLE EFFECT* *the world turns sepia-tone* *as I fall into a flashback* *recalling my oft-recalled failed career as a stand-up comic* *RIPPLE EFFECT*
*back in the present* *I look up at the decaying theater* *and sigh*
*stand-up comedy is not my destiny* *but what is my destiny?*
I don't know.
*I stare sadly at the ground* *and slowly slurp my slushy*
*sighs* *looks at the sky* *continues walking* *kicks a tin can* *adjusts hat* *sighs* *slurps slushy* *juggles flaming chainsaws* *stares at the ground* *drearily paces the sidewalk*
@Taia: Oh, I don't have a character either. XD Well, I do, but I don't know who she is. :P Which puts me in rather a predicament. How is she meant to use her powers to defend herself when I don't know what they are? *facepalm* Anyway, yeah. :P
I have no idea what you smell like. I don't have a nose. XD
@Annika: *laughs* XD
@Silente: Oh, I get horribly stuck on making points when I think I'm correct. :P But I don't mind if I'm not correct. Which is kind of good. But I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE STOP ARGUING BECAUSE THEY CAN'T BE BOTHERED SO I CAN'T CARRY ON PROVING HOW I'M CORRECT. IT ANNOYS ME SO MUCH. D:
*ponders Star's comment to Taia* *wonders what my character is* *I have my six OCs* *and they're all parts of my personality* *the OCD part* *the forgetful part* *the frightened part* *the sad part* *the cold part* *and the flamboyant part*
*but I don't know what MY character is*
*frowns* *slurps slushy* *beginning to feel a little upset*
*glares at a pigeon* *the pigeon flies away* *good*
((Also for reference- I'm unconscious, and won't wake up for anything. If any sensitives try to force me awake, the only thing in my mind is a detailed three dimensional image of the Grand Canyon. No thoughts or people, nothing to force awake.))
*shivers and hisses as her human skin begins to reform* *snarls as the beast is locked away and the girl is left laying on the forest floor*
Ergh. Where am I? *squints up at the sunlight* *sits up and remembers what happened* *squeeks and hides behind a tree* Hey zaf. You got that bag of clothes?
@Annika: Do we ever known what our character is? :)
I must spend some much of my life analysing myself, and do I know who I am yet? (You know the true names in the Inheritance Cycle? I don't think I'd want to know mine. I'd have nothing left to do with myself. :P)
. . . The problem is is that people are so COMPLEX and so UNIQUE, so nothing has ever existed like them before so comparisons are hard, and also - Well, I've worked out I argue loads and not at all, I'm always angry and never angry, my memory is terrible and wonderful, I am serious and not serious, I have to know exactly what I'm doing and can't just guess and yet I don't and can just guess, and I care a lot and don't care very much, and I could probably continue. I am the person I have studied the most in my life, and I am so COMPLEX and so CONTRADICTORY and make SO LITTLE SENSE that - well, it's just - well. :P
@Star: Maybe you'll figure her powers as you go? It could be interesting to go that way around? ^^ :) And- *laughs* The creepy Slipknot voice was a ploy, then? :P
@Annika: Maybe your character is all of those things? Because it's one thing to be obsessive, another to be frightened, or cold or sad or flamboyant or forgetful. But it's another thing completely to be all of those things, y'know? It adds all of these other dimensions and triggers and responses and actions and reactions, because you have all of those different layers which change the cause/effect relationship. And maybe it's all of those different layers and relationships between qualities that makes your character? How all of those traits fit together and cooperate and collide and contradict each other, and the effect of those co-operations and collisions and contradictions? So maybe your character with all of those quirks and traits and idiosyncrasies will never be the same as one of your other OCs, really, because the other quirks contained are different, so the reactions are different? I don't know.
(I mean, you have so many people in the world, literally billions, and - urgh. When you think about how complex and nonsensical all of them are, it's just - urgh. Everything is so tangled up. D:
*quickly gets dressed behind the tree* *slides her boots and and walks towards the others* Oh good, it worked. *feels slightly drained* Hey star how are you? *sits down on the cave floor*
*nods at Taia* O_O I don't have much to add to that.
And - he whispers "I CAN SMELL YOU" in a song and it's just . . . O_O So yeah. I would go around just whispering things like "I CAN SMELL YOU" and "YOU WILL LIVE FOREVER" and "IT'S YOU AND I KNOW, YOU KNOW" and "I FUCKING TOLD YOU", but whispers are so QUIET that it never seemed to work. :P Uh ranting. D:
@Zaf: *frowns, still waking up* Come again? *brain slowing clicks into gear* Why can't Aro know?
Look at her, she'd have moved by now. Alastair did something to her. I just need to get her back to the Sanctuary so Alastair can't mutilate her. I doubt the creep is here
Tired. And still a little dazed. Hey said I'd find you didn't I? And I didn't kill you when I found you either! I sorry about all that..before. I'm sorry I couldn't stop them from..yeah..
*cautiously lets self get dragged* *stands there, not saying much, just silently hoping* *she doesn't want it to happen again* *the pain* *she doesn't want it to happen again*
What will I do to you for what? You all seem to think that I am somehow bound to your standards. That if you call me weak, or a coward, I'll be compelled to prove you wrong. If you had any inkling of intelligence, you'd get over yourselves and think up some strategy more useful than empty claims. Take Zafira, for example- I've had you begging, terrified, screaming, desperate, pleading for release more times than I care to count. So when you pretend invincibility or immunity, when you claim that you're too strong for me to hurt, I don't buy it. Insults and challenges mean nothing to me. The sooner you figure that out, the sooner things will start getting interesting.
((He's still here)) Ah but Ali you haven't broken me yet. And zafs gotten stronger. Plus I already know you don't care for insults or threats. It just makes me feel better to insult you and what not. Anyway. *turns and flips her hair in his face* Stuff to do. People to see. You coming star?
Nobody. Will touch me. *draws knife* Release Ari. And get the hell out. I'm not afraid of you Alastair. Not anymore. If you think you can scare me, you know my worst fear. But you won't do it because some part of Niccolò keeps you back.
@Star: Idiosyncrasies is a great word. :) And- :) And- ah, I see. :P Wow, though. Fair enough. *nods*
In psychology, we look at the self and personality and whatnot, and one of the theories we look at, because the other one is 'unscientific' and 'subjective' and 'impossible to measure', is Trait Theory. And we look specifically at Eysenck, and the figuring that there are these two scales of personality types. Introversion/Extroversion, and Neurotic/Stable. And that's literally it. You find how far along that extroversion scale a person, is and how far along the neuroticism scale a person is, and you look at the map-thing, (which is kind of split into four sections, and each section contains eight traits) and you have the exact trait that that person is. And that's it. Just that one dimension. ANd I'm sitting there thinking how the HELL can that possibly be believed? Because there is SO MUCH to every human being. And you think of all of the billions of different people of the planet - there is no way that they all are one of only 36 personalities. And there's a boy in our class, when she was talking about qualities of extroversion and qualities of introversion, and he put his hand up to say that there were qualities in both categories which applied to him. And she said, she said he couldn't be both introverted and extroverted. Eysenck would say that's not possible. Maybe he likes quiet every now and again, but that's not who he is, it's not his main outgoing/loud character. And I'm sat there thinking, Why not? Because surely, the fact that he DOES sometimes like quiet and alone-liness means that he's NOT all extrovert? I'm terrified of talking and panic when I'm with humans and expected to DO something. People scare me. I think it's probably agreeable that I'm not exactly an extravert, right? BUT, if introversion is being predominately or wholly interested in your own self and feelings and whatnot... I care about other people. I am terrified of hurting people, too. And I just... I enjoy being around other people, but it terrifies me, too. And neither of those two things, I think, can just be dismissed as 'oh but it's not your actual personality' because, what the heck? It's the enjoyment/fear relationship -and the way that I choose to work around it- which makes the social character that I am. If it wasn't be there, people wouldn't recognise me when I talked to them.
And I think about how we look at that theory because the one about self-actualisation and self-concept, and how you're always aiming to become your ideal self, that theory is subjective and unscientific and impossible to measure, so we look for one that ISN'T those things. But the one that isn't those things is WAY too simple, because people are WAY more complex. YOu can't just be ONE trait. It doesn't happen. Because layers and experiences and situations and causes and effects... Maybe the point isn't whether or not you can MEASURE it or not, because it's not a PHYSICAL thing. It has no depth or breadth or height, you can't measure it. It's a mental concept of who you are, and because everybody is different, there's no standard to compare against. idk. People are complex. You can't simplify a person and still expect to know them. It doesn't work. Y'know?
*frowns and flips her hair back* *gasps and quickly puts out the flames* *glares over shoulder at him* Actually I think I'll stay. *looks at the end of her hair* *pulls some scissors out of her pocket and cuts of the burnt bits* *glares up at Alastair* Leave us alone.
@Taia: I have grown as a person by reading that rant of yours. O_O Ugh, though - I contradict on the people one, too. I prefer being alone but I prefer being with people. . . . And sometimes I think I'm definitely a people person but I'm really not a people person, and I've always been an alone person, like, forever, and - I DON'T EVEN KNOW. And you CAN'T be one trait. It's just, like . . . *shrugs helplessly* I don't know. I will just totally agree with you, Taia. :)
And people CHANGE, as well. I mean, I change so much every year. And - yeah. And if your actual personality is constantly CHANGING, then how are you meant to measure it and can it even be measured anyway? No. . . . People are incredible. :) :) :) :) And - no, you can't simplify a person and expect to know them! :) *stores it in my head to quote* I read a book once, and one of the major themes was the fact that people start seeing you a certain way, and then they stop looking and they don't notice when you aren't that way anymore. If you think you have a person sussed out, nailed, you know them, then suddenly, you know them less than a stranger does, because a stranger would base their knowledge on what they see, but you're basing your knowledge on memories of someone else and not even looking at that person, so you're not seeing anything. . . . Yeah.
Damn. There was me thinking "oh but it's only a SMALL long paragraph", that was more that I thought, and seemingly without reaching any new level of anything at all, really. Just... rant. Sorry. :P *hopes that had some use in some way/shape/form* *but then, maybe the use of some things has to be that they're not useful* *so perhaps that's not necessarily a bad thing* *or maybe it's just me rationalizing. :P* *um* *stops rambling* *and drops the asterisks which are supposed to indictate action of some sort, so rambling in asterisks makes not much sense at all, really :P*
@Taia: Haha, I ramble in asterisks. XD Or, when roleplaying, use asterisks to display thought, because I can't just slip into it on the blank page like I do whilst writing . . .
He knows Silente he always knows. When he took my consious he knew I feared my name being stolen. He made me think he did too, he didn't isolate me entirely from the names. I could hear them screaming and was with them. Then he'd isolate me and torment me with images of friends and family dying. I have nightmares but I'm not afraid to stand up to him, if he takes my name I'll try like hell to hurt him to my ability.
@Star: My rant didn't exist just to be pointless! :P *hugs* Thank you. :) And, wow. Yeah. Change. That's also true. And- :) I remembered last weekend that I was supposed to be rereading Chaos Walking, so I fished TAATA off of the bookshelf, worked out where I was and cried(:P) and finished that, and I'm a little way into MOM now. And I don't want to spoiler anything, but I really like the demonstration of that changing of people... and how you can suddenly see a person and not know them because they're not who they were before, but they are, but they're not. idk. And- wow. "You're basing your knowledge on memories of someone else and not even looking at that person" Yes. Just, yes. :) People are incredible. :)
I just know he won't do it. He'll never take a name, the one thing holding back is Niccolò's will. He could take my name and have the Necromancy but also the fact I need simply experience or see magic to perform it. Any discipline...Adept or Elemental. I'm telling you its Niccolò's will to not take my name.
@Zaf: I wouldn't be so confident, if I were you . . . D: About everything, like. It's wise to fear him. . . . I would really advise you all to read The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. Most people won't understand why I like it, but it's fantastic.
I feel like having a rant about violent video games, just because I think they're used as a scapegoat a lot.
For a start, in terms of health shooting games have been proven to actually help your hand-eye coordination. That's my first point. Second point: Games have age ratings for a REASON. You wouldn't buy like a seven year old a 12 rated game, a 16 rated game or an 18 rated game. You wouldn't buy anyone younger than the age rating one of the games unless you thought they were suitably mature and able to cope with it. Going with the age rating thing, I started playing shooting games at age 14. With a 16 rated game, so it wasn't too bad. But from a young age, children are exposed to violent fairytales. Fairytales where everything is always perfect at the end, no matter what happens to the characters throughout. Stories where there are NEVER consequences for anything that happens, other than the antagonist getting either hurt or tortured at the end. That, in itself, does more harm than violent video games ever could. It's too easy to blame them. It's less easy to blame what they are exposed to as a child rather than as a teenager. A shooting game - especially the good ones - not only shows what killing DOES do to people, but it shows the consequences of it. EVERYTHING has a consequence - which fairytales completely miss out. If I ever have a child, I'd rather them play violent video games as a teenager when they're old enough to understand and acknowledge what they see is wrong, rather them as a child that there ARE no consequences to anything that happens. Something fairytales also misses out is the fact that sometimes tough decisions have to be made - not everything is "yes, just make the right decision and everything will be fine and everything will be happily ever after" - it completely misses out that sometimes there IS no right decision. That no matter what you choose, you'll lose in one way or another. If someone makes a wrong decision in fairytales, they always end up winning. ALWAYS. Make a wrong decision in a shooting game and you see the consequences. In fact, it can screw you over. Seriously screw you over. Which is better for children to learn than every decision makes everything right, and there are no consequences to actions.
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@Dragona: *HUGS* OKAY THIS IS SOMETHING WE CAN NOT DISAGREE ON I THINK. Yes! If you're taught that if you do terrible stuff, everything will be okay - what? Realism. *nods* Yeah. I am a big fan of realism. Plus, Tom and Jerry. Tom and Jerry and that stuff is actually dangerous because kids (little kids, like) see people do all these violent things and they're absolutely fine, and then they try to recreate it . . . ! Sometimes, happy endings are bad. I mean, I understand that when we're little, we like everything to be okay. When it wasn't, when things went really wrong in books, I just used to cry because it felt so horrible and wrong and it wasn't SUPPOSED to be like that. And I mean, having your feels crushed is ace when you're older, but when you're little, it can be a little more . . . yeah. But yeah. Um. If I was going somewhere, I forgot.
But, Dragona - people do buy unsuitable video games for their kids. We all know kids whose parents pressure them into watching 18s when they really don't like it, don't we? People were speaking about that last year in English when we were discussing this, when they were, like, thirteen to fourteen years old . . . . . . I miss English in year nine. :P We'd just end up talking about TV the whole time and I could never contribute because I don't watch anything. *facepalm*
Although, Dragona, it has been proven that aggressive music makes you more aggressive. And I'm only saying that in particular because I remember it. And I think . . . well, I think the atmosphere in violent video games . . . *nods*
I'd rather my children grow up thinking that the things they do can and WILL have consequences on people, and themselves, and that hurting people is never right. Get one of the better shooting games - games with actual SUBSTANCE to them - and it'll show them exactly that. Yes, there are some which are just mindless killing - but NO good parent would buy them for a child who would be unsuitable for them. It's the parent's fault in that case, not the fault of the video games for existing.
As for the atmosphere, yes - I agree that some of the video games are very stupid. Not pointing anywhere mainly but *points at Call of Duty*. I NEVER buy Call of Duty's. I used to play them, then disagreed with the mindless killing - there's nothing to them. They shouldn't be a true representative of the entire shooting video game category. Some games are extraordinarily good. Some games will teach people the difference between right and wrong and the atmosphere is not at all violent or horrible. I mean, some shooting games - as stupid as it sounds - are not at all the focus of the games. It isn't used for entertainment purposes. It's used for effect - it's used to put you into your character's shoes and know what they have to go up against. It lets you know what dangers the characters put themselves in - when they don't have to - for what is right, and what they believe in.
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Olivia: *looks furious and clicks fingers holding fire now* Let go of me or I burn you both alive, or well undead for Silente.
*hold on tighter flinching at the heat*
No Olivia. Burn me all you want I am not letting go. I'm trying to help you.
*watches the flame warily*
Oh...oh my.
I might just faint.
But fainting is so....old woman-ish! As Valkyrie would agree! :)
So excited though! Thank you Derek!
Kai.
Olivia: Let me go!!!
Ravel: Give her to me. I can watch her.
*looks over at Ravel*
Its cool. I got her.
Olivia: Ravel!!! *tries to get free to see him*
Let him. She'll listen to him.
Okay then
*sets Olivia on the ground*
*let's go of her*
Olivia: *hits Silente with a trail of fire and goes to Ravel*
Ravel: *takes into the treehouse*
He's talking to her. He usually can scare her into listening. Now I just hope creeper isn't around.
*pats the fire on her out*
Yeah. I think he disappeared when he realised no one weak or defenceless was on that he though he colour hurt either of us with.
**could
Coward. He always is one.
I agree. He's a yellow bellied coward.
He was like that last time. He just lurks and thinks he can hurt us. He can't.
Not when we're alone or together.
For now. Bet he'll wander in eventually
Probably later. I think he's waiting for star...
Typical. He has two people on and he waits to torment Star. Though there isn't much left of her. If I could find her I'd heal her when he isn't around.
All I know is she's in a forest somewhere. Its so annoying! He said to me he's hurting her to break me. If that's true then I'm the reason she's suffering.
Never listen to Alastair. He wants to hurt you. Do not give him the satisfaction, he's like a bully, if you don't give him the reaction he wants he'll eventually hurt someone else. I know it sounds hard but you got to. Aro didn't want to hurt Ari but he did it to try to stop Alastair, notice Alastair can't be bothered with Aro now
But what am I supposed to do? I don't even understand! Do I have to carry on being 'irritatingly happy?' Do I not protect my friends from him? I don't get what he's wanting!
I mean, I asked him why he was hurting people. He said, I'm not overly selective. I just like to see people in pain. And may I say, you were so irritatingly cheerful. It's disgusting. There's also the fact that you think I can't break you. Because I can guarantee that no matter who you've met, there is no one on this planet like me. I'm always watching, vampire, and I'm more powerful than you can imagine. In a little over 500 years, I have devastated the human race time and time again. You're out of your league.
I asked him why he didn't just hurt me. He said,
Because you'd like that better. I've seen you in fights, vampire. You like them. Even when you're nearly killed, it hardly bothers you. But you're always quick to defend your friends. Pain isn't only about physicality. I wanted to see you desperate, tearing yourself apart to try to save the defenseless Star, all in vain. Torturing isn't enough on its own. I intend to break you. And you're already playing right into it.
Then carry on happy. Show him you can't be broken. Alastair thinks he's tough, he's done things to humans but prove him wrong. He knows what hurts me but you he can't totally hurt. If you just show him up.
He's very dramatic...
I don't suppose just telling you how to get rid of you will make you understand, will it?
Well, you lot are just as dramatic. Perhaps it would do you good to learn a lesson about him, though I don't know when that will happen. I, myself, am one of the few from the previous summer to figure it out. Perhaps you all will as well...
Or perhaps not, in which case you all get murdered in the process.
I am unsure what this speech is for anymore, just that if you don't start thinking about the psychology behind his ways, then you all are certainly doomed.
You may have figured the creep out but not everyone can claim to be as 'intelligent' as you. So maybe if you have nothing helpful to say other then you figured out his ways, then don't bother. He isn't even targetting anyone from the summer who he did, so its pointless for me to work up fear of him.
Be happy don't break. Be happy don't break. Be happy don't break. Okay.
*takes a deep breath* happy.
*shudders* happy.
Zaf I can't wait! Frozen comes out in England on Monday! Its going to be mazing! I'm going to watch it like all the time! I can't wait!
**amazing
Its out here....I hve to finish it
Yeah I heard it was out there. It made me real jealous.
I'm downloading it to finish Frozen
Downloading? Tut tut zaf. Tut tut :-)
I hope you like it! It nearly made me cry! The only reason I didn't cry was because I was at the cinema and I refuse to cry I in public!
I saw right when Anna meets the snowman. Thats as far as i got in school. The snowman Elsa made
Olaf is so cute. He represents so much of Elsa. Okay well I will hold back the spoilers for now. A soon as you've finished watching (and possibly crying) you have to tell me what you though of it!
Olaf is so cute! And Anna and Elsa.. ahh <3
Gtg food bbs
Hey!
And, you know, I'm not TRYING to defeat Alastair.
I'm just trying to survive.
It's working remarkably well for me, I must say. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Wbd. D:
#ChaseForBookNine
I'm scared of what he'll do
Back! And star I know your not trying to defeat him. I don't think anyone is. I mean, I wouldn't mind trying to but for now I'm just trying to get him off our backs.
@Silente: *nods* :)
#ChaseForBookNine
Star maybe we could find you? It'll be easier without Alastair
Yeah do you have any inkling of where you are?
Star is a bubble
I know I'm in the forest, under a cave-like overhang. Ari is with me.
It's Alastair, though - do you thinl he'd put me somewhere easy to find? D:
You can look for me, though, I guess . . .
#ChaseForBookNine
Silente could find you by your blood. It's all I've got. I mean I know if we wait for Alastair we'll never get you back, I just say go while he isn't around to stop us.
She has a point, Alas won't have made it easy to find her..
I know....I'm just saying....*sighs* He really annoys me. I just want to hit Alastair.
Er...tracking by blood is quite dangerous...I mean first of all I'd need some of her blood. Then there's a chance I wouldn't be able to keep a hold of myself. And its insanley hard to track WHILE human anyway. I mean what if I dont find her but I lose it and attack you instead..
I'm sorry I can't be more helpful, here, but I can't help where I am . . . D:
Do you have a helicopter to fly over the forest in?
Could you hire one?
YOU COULD HIRE A HELICOPTER. :O
#ChaseForBookNine
Its fine! It was a thought. I just hate knowing...knowing he hurt her. I have Cleavers and operatives searching for Ari. Its just...it doesn't make sense. Niccolò was the dominant name, how did Alastair get control? I mean it'd be hard, he would have to surpress Nic and Ari....I just don't know how...*sighs* This is why he shouldn't have made that link with Ari!! He cares way too much for her and names take advantage!! Why is it he can't listen!!
But what if your in a different forest? We don't know if its this one or a different one..
Aw screw it! Zaf do we have any of stars blood?
Well...*shows Olivia's broken knife* this has her blood
Okay how confident are you at controlling a vampire?
*walks off to the big oak tree*
*grabs one bag and empties it out*
*refills it with clothes*
Well I guess I can stop you. I have the serum but its just nightfall I have to worry. We need to get Star before Alice is back on.
Okay good.
*grabs two needles*
*comes back*
Right here's the two needles we need. This one
*holds up the clear needle* is my serum. This one
*holds up a black solution* makes me turn. I'll inject myself with this. When I do give me the knife. After I change I should head after star. If not you need to use all your magic to get me under control and make me sniff that knife okay? Ready?
I'm ready *has serum* lets do this.
Okay.
*takes off shoes and puts them in the bag of clothes*
*steps back a bit*
*takes a deep breath*
*jabs the needle into her forearm and presses down the plunger*
*starts shuddering and shaking*
Knife!
*hands the knife over and backs away quickly*
Hey, wait - if Alastair just teleported me or whatever, how the hell're you gonna track me?
*sorry for distance, making that damn card*
#ChaseForBookNine
*bites down on the knife between her teeth*
*shudders and shakes violently back and forth*
*claws sprout from fingers*
*curls down onto her haunches*
*moans in pain*
*stands straight as her hands go to her stomach and rip free her human skin*
*the beast beneath curls and sits a second*
*it spits the now Clean knife from its mouth and starts running into the woods*
((Like celean track Valkyrie, by tasting your blood))
*follows after Silente, using shadows to glide as fast as she runs*
*leaps over boulders and rocks*
*glides through the forest heading away from the mountains*
*snarls back at zaf and runs faster*
Down by the Riverside motel,
It's 10 below and falling
By a 99 cent store she closed her eyes
And started swaying
But it's so hard to dance that way
When it's cold and there's no music
Well your old hometown is so far away
But, inside your head there's a record
That's playing, a song called
Hold on, hold on
You really gotta hold on
Take my hand, I'm standing right here
Gotta hold on hold on.
I like not knowing most of Tom Waits' music, because every so often I end up listening to a song of his that I haven't heard before, and it's so much more amazing than just listening to each album through, normally. It's all kind of spaced out, and I've already deduced how important all of the huge space between things is. So, yeah. :)
But then, it's kind of scary to think that one day I'll have gotten through all of them. And then you don't get that space any more.
But... I guess that by then, you have all of those songs existing somewhere in your head, and maybe the full addition to your mental library, having them all there... Perhaps that's so good that you're kind of working towards that, anyway?
Because then you CAN listen to all of the albums through normally, and you know all of the song, and that's positive, right?
idk.
Anyway.
Hey, y'all. :)
#ChaseForBook9
((Hey Taia!))
*keeps hidden from Silente still following her*
*pauses a second before lunging left*
*weaves through the trees*
*sees a small rocky overhang far in the distance*
*starts going faster making deep furrows in the ground*
Hey, Taia! :)
*hugs*
@Silente: He tracked her by following her blood.
Like a breadcrumb trail, with blood. Blood trail.
Trail.
("SHALLOW SKIN, I CAN PAINT WITH PAIN
I MARK THE TRAILS OF MY ARMS WITH YOUR DISDAIN
EVERY DAY IT'S TEH SAME, I LOVE, YOU HATE
BUT I GUESS I DON'T CARE ANYMORE")
If I disappeared from one place and just appeared in another, there will be no trail. Just, like, a dot in one place and a dot in another, rather than a line.
So how are you meant to track me?
You could just wander around looking for the other dot, I guess, but . . .
#ChaseForBookNine
(I don't evenlnow anymore
((No because remember that creepy scene where he's perched at the window outside her house and said he always knew where she was, that he'd always follow her, that he'd be her guardian angel. It might have been before she was cut with shadows by the 'death bringer'))
*THE
And furthermore, the forest is massive. I could be days away.
(Really sorry for raining on your parade. D: I'm a pedant. I get stuck on small detail.
Me and my friend C, when writing a method for an experiment, spent about five minutes arguing over things like whether we needed a test tube holder or whether we could hold it whilst we put the magnesium in, who would hold it, which order we should write it in (like, whether we should say 'put the magnesium in then start the stopwatch' or the other way around, and all that kind of stuff.
That is how bad I am with all the little details.
So
yeah.)
(I'm sorry. D:)
(But I have to nitpick and complain about these small things, because . . .
Well, because you can't just DISREGARD THEM.
. . .
Maybe I should just shut up. :P)
#ChaseForBookNine
(Well...if you sit and nitpick you'll be dead. Its others interpertation, and we don't have Alastair on to sit here and tell us what he did.)
@Silente: *sighs*
Look. Following Valkyrie is easy. You just follow her blood trail.
When she teleports with Fletcher, it is hard, because then you have to wander around until you find her again, but you can guess where she might be and stuff.
But she doesn't suddenly teleport a few billions miles away to somewhere she would never be expected to be and stay there without coming back, like I did.
(I'm sorry. D:)
#ChaseForBookNine
Well
probably
okay.
But I have to go for dinner now, either way. D:
Sorry . . .
#ChaseForBookNine
((Okay pause tracking star a moment I am finding this quote!))
(I'm going to clean my gerbils
((Check your email, Star. XP))
#ChaseForBook9
((Okay I can't find it but then again I haven't looked very well. I swear its in there. He's crouched outside her living room window and he says he'll be her guardian angel. He says he can always find her now he'd tasted her blood. He also rambles on about controlling the beast...anyway))
*sprints towards the rocky outcrop dodging between the trees*
*her vision can make out two figures*
*her gaze locks onto one and she speeds up*
((Oh oka then zaf *hits pause button* we'll wait til you return))
@Silente: . . .
Fair enough. :P
You may proceed.
However, sadly, I must soon depart. D:
(I'm sorry. D:)
#ChaseForBookNine
I have to wait for zaf to come back first. Then I'll hit the play button :-)
*lands face-first in Blogland*
Ow.
Hiya, Silente! :)
Hey, Star! :)
Hi, Zaf!
Hm. I can't comment - I don't know how tracking abilities work.
Is it a trail, as Star says, or an "I CAN SMELL YOU. Always. *creepy smile*" deal?
idk. Good luck with that? ^^
Aw, *hugs Adra* Awesome for him, though. Maybe you'll get your own chance another time?
#ChaseForBook9
((Hey annika!))
*sits up*
*brushes self off*
*returns hat to its accustomed jaunty angle*
*stands up*
*and sets off down the street*
*whilst whistling 'Singing in the Rain'*
((For reference- he didn't put her far from the clearing. She's not really hidden, either. She's just barely too far from the clearing to see it. It isn't far.))
#ChaseForBook9
Hullo Silente, Taia, Adra, Star, Zafira, etc.
And Aretha.
Also Aretha.
*strolling*
*skips once*
*skips twice*
*spins around a lamppost*
*laughing at clouds*
*so dark up above*
*singing*
*singing in the rain*
((Hello!))
#ChaseForBook9
*leaps off the lamppost*
*adjusts clothes*
*continues down the street, with great dignity*
Thanks, Ari. :)
*creepy Slipknot whisper* I CAN SMELL YOU.
*uneven laughter*
I CAN SMELL YOU ALL.
Hey, Annika! :)
#ChaseForBookNine
Ha found it! Mortal Coil Hard back page 296 chapter 29 'Her Guardian Angel'
'Caelan sat back against the wooden fence of the garden. Finding her had been easy. Now that he had tasted her blood, there was nowhere she could go that he couldn't follow.'
@Silente: Okay, fair enough. XD
You win. I was wrong. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
*walks down a dark alley*
*there are lots of punching noises*
*and sounds like someone being thrown against the wall*
*and a jangling*
*and a meowing*
*I leave the alley*
*counting the money in my mugger's wallet*
*nods smugly* yes. Yes I did. Sorry I get ridiculously determined when I have a point and I think I'm right.
*wonders when zaf will be back*
Okay lets do it ill just do it
((Hits the play button*))
*carries on running towards the rocky overhang that shelters two figure*
*targets the one to the right*
*speeds up and snarls in anticipation*
*waves hand*
Don't mind me. I'm just bumbling along.
*wonders what to do with my newfound riches*
*makes a beeline for the nearest slushy shop*
*returns with a blue raspberry slushy*
*sips it as I continue down the street*
*in search of adventure*
Injured Magical Prince Lying In A Ditch: Please, pretty lady! Won't you help break the curse that the wicked witc-
*walks past him*
Injured Magical Prince Lying In A Ditch: Well, screw you!
*sulks*
Hey, Annika! :)
Hiya, Aretha! :)
(Just gonna drop in that I suck at rp, don't actually have myself a character, get confused quickly, and am too lazy to amend any of those problems, so I probably won't be joining the action-ly-part, fun as it looks. :P )
(which is fine, bc watching is good. It's easier to see things, kind of.)
(though seeing things is kind of the whole point of watching so I'm not sure what I meant by that)
(I think I'm just giving myself reasons to self-contradict)
(which kind of turns into a form of rambling)
(aimless, aimless rambling)
(I don't know)
(idk)
(I think my point is that I'm not, like, neglecting the rp or anything, I'm just watching)
(it's cool)
(like... Listening to a band, rather than actually being in that band. If that makes sense?)
(Or... idk)
(yeah.)
#ChaseForBook9
*follows trying to keep hidden*
@Star: ... WHat do I smell like? :P
#CHaseForBook9
*passes a vaudeville theater*
*looks at it*
*RIPPLE EFFECT*
*the world turns sepia-tone*
*as I fall into a flashback*
*recalling my oft-recalled failed career as a stand-up comic*
*RIPPLE EFFECT*
*back in the present*
*I look up at the decaying theater*
*and sigh*
*stand-up comedy is not my destiny*
*but what is my destiny?*
I don't know.
*I stare sadly at the ground*
*and slowly slurp my slushy*
*leaps into the outcrop*
*overshoots the two bodies there*
*turns and snarls*
*pounces towards stars body*
I . . . I . . .
*stands up straight and tall*
*raises chin*
I should sing a song about my feelings!
. . .
*waves a dismissive hand*
Nah.
*sighs*
*looks at the sky*
*continues walking*
*kicks a tin can*
*adjusts hat*
*sighs*
*slurps slushy*
*juggles flaming chainsaws*
*stares at the ground*
*drearily paces the sidewalk*
*sneaks up ane injects serum in Silente* down girl
@Taia: Oh, I don't have a character either. XD
Well, I do, but I don't know who she is. :P
Which puts me in rather a predicament. How is she meant to use her powers to defend herself when I don't know what they are?
*facepalm*
Anyway, yeah. :P
I have no idea what you smell like. I don't have a nose. XD
@Annika: *laughs* XD
@Silente: Oh, I get horribly stuck on making points when I think I'm correct. :P
But I don't mind if I'm not correct.
Which is kind of good.
But I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE STOP ARGUING BECAUSE THEY CAN'T BE BOTHERED SO I CAN'T CARRY ON PROVING HOW I'M CORRECT.
IT ANNOYS ME SO MUCH.
D:
#ChaseForBookNine
(Msd, sorry. D:)
#ChaseForBookNine
*hisses and reels back from zaf*
*locks gazes with her and bares her fangs*
*starts shuddering and shaking*
*moves back further*
*ponders Star's comment to Taia*
*wonders what my character is*
*I have my six OCs*
*and they're all parts of my personality*
*the OCD part*
*the forgetful part*
*the frightened part*
*the sad part*
*the cold part*
*and the flamboyant part*
*but I don't know what MY character is*
*frowns*
*slurps slushy*
*beginning to feel a little upset*
*glares at a pigeon*
*the pigeon flies away*
*good*
((Also for reference- I'm unconscious, and won't wake up for anything. If any sensitives try to force me awake, the only thing in my mind is a detailed three dimensional image of the Grand Canyon. No thoughts or people, nothing to force awake.))
#ChaseForBook9
God damn it!!! What did he do to Ari?! *kneels beside Star and heals her*
*sighs*
*checks watch*
*it is time for my adventure to end*
*for now*
*before I leave Blogland, I look back*
*and swallow grimly*
I would be an Energy-Thrower.
I know that, at least.
*and I mount my magnificent great dane, Lothar, and ride him out of this comment thread, into the glorious sunset*
*shivers and hisses as her human skin begins to reform*
*snarls as the beast is locked away and the girl is left laying on the forest floor*
Ergh. Where am I?
*squints up at the sunlight*
*sits up and remembers what happened*
*squeeks and hides behind a tree*
Hey zaf. You got that bag of clothes?
@Annika: Do we ever known what our character is? :)
I must spend some much of my life analysing myself, and do I know who I am yet?
(You know the true names in the Inheritance Cycle?
I don't think I'd want to know mine. I'd have nothing left to do with myself. :P)
. . .
The problem is is that people are so COMPLEX and so UNIQUE, so nothing has ever existed like them before so comparisons are hard, and also -
Well, I've worked out I argue loads and not at all, I'm always angry and never angry, my memory is terrible and wonderful, I am serious and not serious, I have to know exactly what I'm doing and can't just guess and yet I don't and can just guess, and I care a lot and don't care very much, and I could probably continue. I am the person I have studied the most in my life, and I am so COMPLEX and so CONTRADICTORY and make SO LITTLE SENSE that -
well, it's just -
well.
:P
#ChaseForBookNine
((Bye anni!))
(I was mostly healed anyway, Zaf.)
*wakes up and sees Zaf* Oh, hey.
There is something very wrong with your daughter.
#ChaseForBookNine
@Star: Maybe you'll figure her powers as you go? It could be interesting to go that way around? ^^
:)
And- *laughs* The creepy Slipknot voice was a ploy, then? :P
@Annika: Maybe your character is all of those things? Because it's one thing to be obsessive, another to be frightened, or cold or sad or flamboyant or forgetful. But it's another thing completely to be all of those things, y'know? It adds all of these other dimensions and triggers and responses and actions and reactions, because you have all of those different layers which change the cause/effect relationship.
And maybe it's all of those different layers and relationships between qualities that makes your character? How all of those traits fit together and cooperate and collide and contradict each other, and the effect of those co-operations and collisions and contradictions?
So maybe your character with all of those quirks and traits and idiosyncrasies will never be the same as one of your other OCs, really, because the other quirks contained are different, so the reactions are different?
I don't know.
#ChaseForBook9
*tosses the bag to Silente* I see. Now. We have another problem Star. Thats Ari and I don't need Aro to tell she's not right.
(I mean, you have so many people in the world, literally billions, and -
urgh.
When you think about how complex and nonsensical all of them are, it's just -
urgh.
Everything is so tangled up. D:
#ChaseForBookNine
*quickly gets dressed behind the tree*
*slides her boots and and walks towards the others*
Oh good, it worked.
*feels slightly drained*
Hey star how are you?
*sits down on the cave floor*
IDIOSYNCRASIES! :)
*nods at Taia* O_O
I don't have much to add to that.
And - he whispers "I CAN SMELL YOU" in a song and it's just . . . O_O
So yeah.
I would go around just whispering things like "I CAN SMELL YOU" and "YOU WILL LIVE FOREVER" and "IT'S YOU AND I KNOW, YOU KNOW" and "I FUCKING TOLD YOU", but whispers are so QUIET that it never seemed to work. :P
Uh
ranting.
D:
@Zaf: *frowns, still waking up* Come again?
*brain slowing clicks into gear*
Why can't Aro know?
#ChaseForBookNine
I'm good, Silente.
I'm not being tortured, so I must be good.
*nods, wincing at memories*
How are you?
#ChaseForBookNine
Look at her, she'd have moved by now. Alastair did something to her. I just need to get her back to the Sanctuary so Alastair can't mutilate her. I doubt the creep is here
Tired. And still a little dazed. Hey said I'd find you didn't I? And I didn't kill you when I found you either! I sorry about all that..before. I'm sorry I couldn't stop them from..yeah..
Don't doubt, Zafira.
And, vampire- get used to that feeling of powerlessness.
*smiles and turns* Hey Alastair! How are you?
*turns to Alastair and punches in face* You!!!'
Quite lovely, thank you. I've been enjoying myself.
@Silente: Yeah. It's fine . . . *voice suffering from lack of animation* let's just, uh, not think about it.
*turns around at looks at Alastair* *freezes, getting a sense of deja vu* *but for fuck's sake, what am I meant to do?*
#ChaseForBookNine
*her fist passes right through him* Never change, Zafira.
*struggles not to laugh* zaf. Calm down. Hitting him won't help. Well it will but not much.
*doesn't think hitting him will help* *can't bring self to say anything*
#ChaseForBookNine
*moves next to star*
*lightly bumps her shoulder*
*smiles up at her*
What did you do to Aretha?! And don't say I'm afraid of him I'm not afraid. *shadows form* I'll kill you Alastair
Zaf, he'll only make it go through him. You know this.
*moves and stands next to him dragging star with her*
**her not him
Your subconscious betrays you, Zafira. You said yourself that you still have nightmares.
I've just kept her quiet. She won't wake.
So Alastair what's on your agenda today? Paint a pink picture? Cover yourself in glitter? Dance around at a hippie convention?
I may have nightmares but you have yet to actually break me. If you really scared me, I'd have have ran. And what will you do to me for this?
*cautiously lets self get dragged* *stands there, not saying much, just silently hoping*
*she doesn't want it to happen again*
*the pain*
*she doesn't want it to happen again*
#ChaseForBookNine
((Has he gone..?))
(Idk?)
#ChaseForBookNine
((I can't tell if he's gone or is just taking a long time..))
(Same...
What will I do to you for what?
You all seem to think that I am somehow bound to your standards. That if you call me weak, or a coward, I'll be compelled to prove you wrong. If you had any inkling of intelligence, you'd get over yourselves and think up some strategy more useful than empty claims. Take Zafira, for example- I've had you begging, terrified, screaming, desperate, pleading for release more times than I care to count. So when you pretend invincibility or immunity, when you claim that you're too strong for me to hurt, I don't buy it. Insults and challenges mean nothing to me. The sooner you figure that out, the sooner things will start getting interesting.
((Do we just wait for ages? Star can you email him?))
((He's still here))
Ah but Ali you haven't broken me yet. And zafs gotten stronger. Plus I already know you don't care for insults or threats. It just makes me feel better to insult you and what not. Anyway.
*turns and flips her hair in his face*
Stuff to do. People to see. You coming star?
Nobody. Will touch me. *draws knife* Release Ari. And get the hell out. I'm not afraid of you Alastair. Not anymore. If you think you can scare me, you know my worst fear. But you won't do it because some part of Niccolò keeps you back.
@Star: Idiosyncrasies is a great word. :)
And- :)
And- ah, I see. :P Wow, though. Fair enough. *nods*
In psychology, we look at the self and personality and whatnot, and one of the theories we look at, because the other one is 'unscientific' and 'subjective' and 'impossible to measure', is Trait Theory.
And we look specifically at Eysenck, and the figuring that there are these two scales of personality types. Introversion/Extroversion, and Neurotic/Stable.
And that's literally it.
You find how far along that extroversion scale a person, is and how far along the neuroticism scale a person is, and you look at the map-thing, (which is kind of split into four sections, and each section contains eight traits) and you have the exact trait that that person is.
And that's it. Just that one dimension.
ANd I'm sitting there thinking how the HELL can that possibly be believed? Because there is SO MUCH to every human being. And you think of all of the billions of different people of the planet - there is no way that they all are one of only 36 personalities.
And there's a boy in our class, when she was talking about qualities of extroversion and qualities of introversion, and he put his hand up to say that there were qualities in both categories which applied to him. And she said, she said he couldn't be both introverted and extroverted. Eysenck would say that's not possible. Maybe he likes quiet every now and again, but that's not who he is, it's not his main outgoing/loud character.
And I'm sat there thinking, Why not? Because surely, the fact that he DOES sometimes like quiet and alone-liness means that he's NOT all extrovert?
I'm terrified of talking and panic when I'm with humans and expected to DO something. People scare me. I think it's probably agreeable that I'm not exactly an extravert, right?
BUT, if introversion is being predominately or wholly interested in your own self and feelings and whatnot... I care about other people. I am terrified of hurting people, too.
And I just...
I enjoy being around other people, but it terrifies me, too.
And neither of those two things, I think, can just be dismissed as 'oh but it's not your actual personality' because, what the heck?
It's the enjoyment/fear relationship -and the way that I choose to work around it- which makes the social character that I am. If it wasn't be there, people wouldn't recognise me when I talked to them.
And I think about how we look at that theory because the one about self-actualisation and self-concept, and how you're always aiming to become your ideal self, that theory is subjective and unscientific and impossible to measure, so we look for one that ISN'T those things.
But the one that isn't those things is WAY too simple, because people are WAY more complex.
YOu can't just be ONE trait.
It doesn't happen.
Because layers and experiences and situations and causes and effects...
Maybe the point isn't whether or not you can MEASURE it or not, because it's not a PHYSICAL thing.
It has no depth or breadth or height, you can't measure it. It's a mental concept of who you are, and because everybody is different, there's no standard to compare against.
idk.
People are complex. You can't simplify a person and still expect to know them. It doesn't work. Y'know?
Sorry for ranting. Words and things. But, yeah.
#CHaseForBook9
Actually, Zafira never changes. *throws fire at her hair as she flips it* By all means- go tend to whatever trivialities you like.
I'll deal with him just go. He can't really hurt me like he can with you guys. It'd be too hard for him
*frowns and flips her hair back*
*gasps and quickly puts out the flames*
*glares over shoulder at him*
Actually I think I'll stay.
*looks at the end of her hair*
*pulls some scissors out of her pocket and cuts of the burnt bits*
*glares up at Alastair*
Leave us alone.
((Hey dragona))
He won't hurt me zaf. I got your back.
*pulls out her two daggers*
@Taia: I have grown as a person by reading that rant of yours. O_O
Ugh, though - I contradict on the people one, too. I prefer being alone but I prefer being with people.
. . .
And sometimes I think I'm definitely a people person but I'm really not a people person, and I've always been an alone person, like, forever, and -
I DON'T EVEN KNOW.
And you CAN'T be one trait. It's just, like . . . *shrugs helplessly*
I don't know. I will just totally agree with you, Taia. :)
And people CHANGE, as well. I mean, I change so much every year. And - yeah. And if your actual personality is constantly CHANGING, then how are you meant to measure it and can it even be measured anyway? No.
. . .
People are incredible. :) :) :) :)
And - no, you can't simplify a person and expect to know them! :) *stores it in my head to quote*
I read a book once, and one of the major themes was the fact that people start seeing you a certain way, and then they stop looking and they don't notice when you aren't that way anymore.
If you think you have a person sussed out, nailed, you know them, then suddenly, you know them less than a stranger does, because a stranger would base their knowledge on what they see, but you're basing your knowledge on memories of someone else and not even looking at that person, so you're not seeing anything.
. . .
Yeah.
#ChaseForBookNine
Damn. There was me thinking "oh but it's only a SMALL long paragraph", that was more that I thought, and seemingly without reaching any new level of anything at all, really.
Just... rant. Sorry. :P
*hopes that had some use in some way/shape/form*
*but then, maybe the use of some things has to be that they're not useful*
*so perhaps that's not necessarily a bad thing*
*or maybe it's just me rationalizing. :P*
*um*
*stops rambling*
*and drops the asterisks which are supposed to indictate action of some sort, so rambling in asterisks makes not much sense at all, really :P*
#ChaseForBook9
(Sorry, got caught ranting. D:)
*carefully backs away, quickly*
*looks around*
*getting lost or staying here?*
*getting lost*
*definitely*
*runs away*
#ChaseForBookNine
@Taia: Haha, I ramble in asterisks. XD
Or, when roleplaying, use asterisks to display thought, because I can't just slip into it on the blank page like I do whilst writing . . .
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I can handle him. I promise.
And I can help. I promise.
((And you know, that's what you're doing with Alastair, you people.
You think you know him, but you don't.
*points to rant*))
((*LET IT NOT BE SAID THAT MY RANTS TO NOT APPLY TO REAL LIFE*
*OR VIRTUAL LIFE*
*WHATEVER* :P*))
#ChaseForBookNine
*DO
#ChaseForBookNine
Well he won't bother using my fear, he'd have to steal my true name.
And he doesn't know my worst fear, so he can't use it.
This unit has no concept of fear. There is nothing to use.
He knows Silente he always knows. When he took my consious he knew I feared my name being stolen. He made me think he did too, he didn't isolate me entirely from the names. I could hear them screaming and was with them. Then he'd isolate me and torment me with images of friends and family dying. I have nightmares but I'm not afraid to stand up to him, if he takes my name I'll try like hell to hurt him to my ability.
Hi, Dragona! :)
@Star: My rant didn't exist just to be pointless! :P *hugs* Thank you. :)
And, wow. Yeah. Change. That's also true. And- :)
I remembered last weekend that I was supposed to be rereading Chaos Walking, so I fished TAATA off of the bookshelf, worked out where I was and cried(:P) and finished that, and I'm a little way into MOM now. And I don't want to spoiler anything, but I really like the demonstration of that changing of people... and how you can suddenly see a person and not know them because they're not who they were before, but they are, but they're not. idk.
And- wow. "You're basing your knowledge on memories of someone else and not even looking at that person" Yes. Just, yes. :)
People are incredible. :)
Gotta go.
*hugs all, & offers cookies, also*
Bye!
#ChaseForBook9
(Hi/Bye, Taia!)
Well in that case I aint letting him use it if I can help it.
((*waiting to see if Alastair'll stop me running away*
*it's cool if he doesn't and all, you know, but I ought to check*))
((But for the record
Star fears him
very much so.
And I fear him.
I mean, you fear sadists. It's just kind of an accepted fact.
. . .))
#ChaseForBookNine
Fours, Taia! :(
Thank you. :) *looks at Chaos Walking in the eyes of my rant* *nods approvingly* :) :) :)
#ChaseForBookNine
I just know he won't do it. He'll never take a name, the one thing holding back is Niccolò's will. He could take my name and have the Necromancy but also the fact I need simply experience or see magic to perform it. Any discipline...Adept or Elemental. I'm telling you its Niccolò's will to not take my name.
Well good I don't need to worry about that happening.
((Has he gone?))
(Not sure. Ari usually is distant)
Olivia: *sits in room laughing holding her knife which has Alexis's blood on it*
Aro: Lexi come on...we'll go to New York.
Alexis: I'm fine! *gasps* bloody...knife...
Aro: Lexi. Now. Lorcan'll have me if I let you get killed.
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I POSTED
(Idk?)
@Zaf: I wouldn't be so confident, if I were you . . . D:
About everything, like.
It's wise to fear him.
. . .
I would really advise you all to read The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. Most people won't understand why I like it, but it's fantastic.
#ChaseForBookNine
FINISHED THE CARD!!!!!!!!!!!!
ONLY TOOK ME ABOUT EIGHT HOURS. :O
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I just don't fear Alastair.
. . .
Well, good for you.
Foolish, but good.
Well, good until you realise how foolish you're being. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
He doesn't bother me.
*nods*
*repeats previous comment*
#ChaseForBookNine
*blows a bubble* Go bubble Star powers
BUBBLES! <3
#ChaseForBookNine
Star loves bubbles
I feel like having a rant about violent video games, just because I think they're used as a scapegoat a lot.
For a start, in terms of health shooting games have been proven to actually help your hand-eye coordination.
That's my first point.
Second point: Games have age ratings for a REASON. You wouldn't buy like a seven year old a 12 rated game, a 16 rated game or an 18 rated game. You wouldn't buy anyone younger than the age rating one of the games unless you thought they were suitably mature and able to cope with it.
Going with the age rating thing, I started playing shooting games at age 14. With a 16 rated game, so it wasn't too bad. But from a young age, children are exposed to violent fairytales. Fairytales where everything is always perfect at the end, no matter what happens to the characters throughout. Stories where there are NEVER consequences for anything that happens, other than the antagonist getting either hurt or tortured at the end. That, in itself, does more harm than violent video games ever could.
It's too easy to blame them. It's less easy to blame what they are exposed to as a child rather than as a teenager. A shooting game - especially the good ones - not only shows what killing DOES do to people, but it shows the consequences of it. EVERYTHING has a consequence - which fairytales completely miss out. If I ever have a child, I'd rather them play violent video games as a teenager when they're old enough to understand and acknowledge what they see is wrong, rather them as a child that there ARE no consequences to anything that happens.
Something fairytales also misses out is the fact that sometimes tough decisions have to be made - not everything is "yes, just make the right decision and everything will be fine and everything will be happily ever after" - it completely misses out that sometimes there IS no right decision. That no matter what you choose, you'll lose in one way or another. If someone makes a wrong decision in fairytales, they always end up winning. ALWAYS. Make a wrong decision in a shooting game and you see the consequences. In fact, it can screw you over. Seriously screw you over. Which is better for children to learn than every decision makes everything right, and there are no consequences to actions.
Ok, that ended up being a little longer than I expected...
Hmm silence
Sorry poofed doctor who came on..
It was on but I have the DVD's.
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Hear hear
Zaffy ma dear how lucky you are! Has your download finished yet?
@Dragona: *HUGS*
OKAY THIS IS SOMETHING WE CAN NOT DISAGREE ON I THINK.
Yes! If you're taught that if you do terrible stuff, everything will be okay - what?
Realism. *nods* Yeah. I am a big fan of realism.
Plus, Tom and Jerry. Tom and Jerry and that stuff is actually dangerous because kids (little kids, like) see people do all these violent things and they're absolutely fine, and then they try to recreate it . . . !
Sometimes, happy endings are bad.
I mean, I understand that when we're little, we like everything to be okay. When it wasn't, when things went really wrong in books, I just used to cry because it felt so horrible and wrong and it wasn't SUPPOSED to be like that.
And I mean, having your feels crushed is ace when you're older, but when you're little, it can be a little more . . . yeah.
But yeah.
Um.
If I was going somewhere, I forgot.
#ChaseForBookNine
Hear, hear! :)
#ChaseForBookNine
But, Dragona - people do buy unsuitable video games for their kids.
We all know kids whose parents pressure them into watching 18s when they really don't like it, don't we?
People were speaking about that last year in English when we were discussing this, when they were, like, thirteen to fourteen years old . . .
. . .
I miss English in year nine. :P
We'd just end up talking about TV the whole time and I could never contribute because I don't watch anything.
*facepalm*
Although, Dragona, it has been proven that aggressive music makes you more aggressive.
And I'm only saying that in particular because I remember it.
And I think . . . well, I think the atmosphere in violent video games . . .
*nods*
#ChaseForBookNine
I'd rather my children grow up thinking that the things they do can and WILL have consequences on people, and themselves, and that hurting people is never right. Get one of the better shooting games - games with actual SUBSTANCE to them - and it'll show them exactly that. Yes, there are some which are just mindless killing - but NO good parent would buy them for a child who would be unsuitable for them. It's the parent's fault in that case, not the fault of the video games for existing.
As for the atmosphere, yes - I agree that some of the video games are very stupid. Not pointing anywhere mainly but *points at Call of Duty*.
I NEVER buy Call of Duty's. I used to play them, then disagreed with the mindless killing - there's nothing to them. They shouldn't be a true representative of the entire shooting video game category.
Some games are extraordinarily good. Some games will teach people the difference between right and wrong and the atmosphere is not at all violent or horrible. I mean, some shooting games - as stupid as it sounds - are not at all the focus of the games. It isn't used for entertainment purposes. It's used for effect - it's used to put you into your character's shoes and know what they have to go up against. It lets you know what dangers the characters put themselves in - when they don't have to - for what is right, and what they believe in.
Wadda ya arguin bout?
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