Posts by Lace Sabatons

That's a whole big load of questions. You could start several threads based on that. I'll try to tackle it adequately.

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Well You know I have been searching answer for this question for a long time its not like I don't have an answer to it I do ... the thing is everyone has their own answer to this question ... their own version

Why are we born ... many will answer it in few lines or may in length

"Why are we here?" The answer is disappointingly simple. "Because our parents fucked."

That's really it. The only reason this question feels like a mystery is because we want to believe that our existence has some deeper meaning, but it doesn't. There is no hidden purpose out there for us to find. Life is exactly what you see in the day-to-day. Anything more that people imagine is just an attempt to feel more cosmically important than we really are.

I dunno about you, but I prefer it this way. How awful would it be if there was some kind of pre-determined plan or purpose for our existence? Some hidden agenda that our entire species was working towards without our knowledge? We'd be pawns.

The truth is that life has whatever purpose we give to it. Nothing more, and nothing less. And I find that beautiful and uplifting.

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but this question can not be answered without answering some other question...

What you wanna do in your life?

That's a question with a lot of answers. My life, after all, is everything I will ever know or experience. I suppose it is important to me that through all of the things I do and experience, I always act in an ethical and considerate manner. I also want to focus my energies on self-directed creative work. That's paramount to me. I want to play games and watch movies and eat good food. I want to connect with other people, be enriched by them and hopefully be a positive impact on their lives as well.

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And why you wanna do it?

Because those are the things that make me happy.

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What would you do If you reach there?

Probably come up with some more things to strive for. Life is struggle. If you're not struggling towards something, you're not living. You're stagnant.

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What is your philosophy of life ?

I don't really understand this question. If we're talking about "what is the philosophy that governs your life," then there are about 10,000 of those. I once wrote an essay entitled "The Philosophy of Gift Giving," and briefly worked on drafting an entire series of articles called "The Philosophy of World of Warcraft." There's really no single philosophy which governs my entire life, save perhaps the fact that life isn't as important as we want it to be.

Life is metaphysically meaningless. Metaphysical meaning is for suckers. Create meaning for yourself, and don't be a douchebag about it.

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What would you do If you become rich?

If we're talking "fabulously wealthy, wish-fulfillment" kind or rich, then I've always wanted to stage elaborate productions of reality-bending weirdness. Like flash mobs, but with a bottomless pit of money.

Like, I dunno, build a giant Majora's Mask moon and have some helicopters take it into the sky in the dead of night, so everybody wakes up with it hovering 300' above their town. Or some shit like that.

Of course if we're talking about a more feasible sort of wealth, I would like to have my needs securely taken care of. I've always wanted to really fix up my 1994 Ford Escort real nice. Make it look like it was fresh off the production line, and add in a bunch of odd little features to make it super comfortable. I'd love to pay to take classes in all sorts of professions, like carpentry and plumbing. I'd love to buy a small house in the city somewhere, get really creative with how I decorate it. Build a D&D room in the basement, a sex room in the attic, that sorta thing. It'd be great to support all the artists and creatives that I love, help them to do more of their work. And I'd love to have a fully decked out workshop where I could make things. Mmmmm. Good times.

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In these question you will see a bigger picture your true answer to the question Why are we born?

Because our parents fucked each other.

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Now many people give this answer life is for enjoyment ... and that They have a right to live happily so they shud live life to fullest and honestly I don't disagree people have full right to live they want to...

But I just fail to understand one thing .... How can I enjoy and live life to fullest when I know that So many innocent little children sleep hungry everyday and many die every year ... How Do I enjoy when I know women have to sell their chastity to feed them ... How Do I enjoy when I know young girls are kidnapped and how they fear for their safety ... How Do I enjoy when I know out there that in this world children are enslaved into slavery .....

Life isn't for enjoyment. Life isn't 'for' anything. As stated above, life has no metaphysical meaning. The world can be a horrific place, there's no denying that. We must do what we can, but we are individuals. We can't take the whole weight of all the world's evils onto our shoulders.

Personally, I just try to do what I can in my immediate vicinity. When I think I can help, I try to help. I think about my responsibility to make the world a better place within my means. Nobody can end homelessness, but anybody can keep a few spare rolls of socks in their car to hand out to homeless folks they meet. (Socks are really good, by the way. One of the most needed, and under-donated items).

I'm far from perfect. But I try, and I struggle to do better. Nobody is required to forgo their own wants and desires for the sake of curing the world of evil. Just do what you can within your means.

It's amazing how much you improve if you just try to improve consistently. Day-to-day the difference isn't noticeable. But after just a year or two the difference weill be larger than you'd ever believe it could be.

Shadows of the Empire was crazy difficult after the first couple levels.

Donkey Kong 64 was a pretty tame game overall, until you actually tried to get through the last hour or so of the game. Requiring you to master two arcade classics, then overcome amped up versions of those older games, THEN requiring you to go through that crazy fuckin' gauntlet of a final boss fight? It was a god damned nutty game.

I think I only managed to finish that last boss fight a single time.

In the far off, post-apocalyptic year of 1997, people use bikes. Because why does nobody use bikes in any other post apocalypse? Bikes are an excellent mode of transportation that is faster than walking, and doesn't require using any limited resource like gasoline. They ought to be exactly what a post apocalyptic world needs!

I mean, yeah, they look a little silly. But still, it's a good idea.

I was expecting something a little more like Kung Fury, but this movie takes itself a lot more seriously than that movie did. It's a full-on, hour-and-a-half adventure against some cool villains who are legitimately pretty scary guys.

The female lead certainly falls into the "Manic pixie dreamgirl" stereotype, but due to some plot developments that I won't spoil, I think she's really more of a subversion of that stereotype.

For reals, go watch this movie. It's great.

That's actually really interesting. I'm surprised I never knew that.

People get angry about being called kids until they aren't kids anymore.

Also, it's not terribly recent, but I was playing this game not long ago. Pretty good:

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Hibbert was old. He'd been a boy of 6 years when the world died. Barely old enough to remember. Like any good parents, Hibbert's had tried to protect him. They hid their fear. The way the dead earth had crinkled and crunched beneath his stomping feet had seemed like just another fun game at the time.

But now he was old. Old enough that most young folk couldn't tell he'd been a child when the world died. Old enough that they didn't care. He'd seen men and women younger than him beaten to death and torn apart for looking old enough to be responsible for the world's current sorry state. So when he saw a group of folk coming up the road with a pack-lizard, Hibbert quickly covered himself in roadside muck, and tried to hide from view.

I've said I'd never do this again. But it's difficult to say 'no' to @Aphelion . So here we are, a freeform forum RP.

If you post in this thread, it is expected that you've read this post in full, and whatever the most recent 3 posts are before contributing to the thread for the first time.

Off topic posts and spam will be strictly moderated in this thread.

Don't play other people's characters. Even small things, like saying they are surprised, are not okay. If you want to have an extended, complex interaction with someone, perhaps do it in private, then one of you can post the resulting back-and-forth here.

The Setting:
It wasn't that long ago that the world was better than this. There were fields and rolling hills of green, red, and purple glass. Trees of crystal, rivers of wine, sprawling cities of towers and domes. Robots tended our every need, and magicians transformed every inch of our world into a paradise. Paradise is a fleeting thing.

The world is dead now. The magics and machines that made our grandparent's lives so luxurious were poison to it. The human race will end soon. We may linger on for a few generations yet, but our numbers are ever dwindling. Already, new creatures are rising to replace us. Creatures suited to live in the world we made for them.

The Weird Wastes of the World that Was.

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You should hit up @Kaltaka. She was askin' about you a few months back, but she didn't stick around here very long before disappearing into a Guardian-scented mist.

This is all a huge improvement over the last piece of art I saw from you.

Which, granted, was a long time ago. But f'real, this is good stuff. I particularly like the pokemans.

I'm still open to doing this, though aside from Lexatom and Aphelion, I don't think there's a lot of interest in moving forward. Particularly given a number of folks being in crazy, unamerican timezones.

It's funny, because Aphelion was always the young one.

There's a character in Fallout 4 named Nick Valentine. When he's with you and you hack a computer, you get a little popup that says "Nick likes that."

I want to take a screenshot of that and post it here. "Nick likes that." But I have to go to work in 20 minutes, so I don't have time. So just imagine that I put in the effort.

I have produced LadyTK.

My powers of summoning old TSR members are infinite.

I still use a flipphone, so a blackberry would be a huge upgrade. But I don't like paying out the nose for service, so I'd probably stick with my flip phone.

I'm not currently facing any issues that I don't understand.

The Haynes Manual was something like $20 or $30. A little pricy, but worth it I think.

There are a lot of good and bad things about Fallout 4. But for the most part, yes it's very good.