Anonymouswizard's Random Banter #227 and Free Cup of Tea

[Iruka]

I baked cinnamon buns today!

Those look delicious. I should try baking some, too.

[PopeLinus1]

I baked cinnamon buns today!

Oh geez, those look extremely tasty.

Man, I wish I could bake.

[Insane Jeenyus]

First, wow! we are already on page 4!!

No but it will scar up. Since I have to get some very large chunks of skin taken off this year it is more like practice.

I had a colostomy for two years. The scar [just one of many] is eye shaped, 3 " long and 1" wide. I have been told by women tht my scars look ''hot". Seriously?? Well, it seems to be a thing.

I baked cinnamon buns today!

Oh frauline Hoffenpeper, those are sooooo yummy!

[Anonymouswizard]

I have a sudden urge for pastries, not sure why

Also for cuddling a very specific woman, although that urge is less sudden.

I really should go to sleep soon.

[Aotrs Commander]

MOTHERFRACK-

Frag damn Consecrate/Desecrate/Hallow/Unhallow damn turn/rebuke into channel energy conversation zombie-stanked vampire-copulating ghost-slimed wight-buried ghoul-crapping MUMMY-DUSTED WRAITH-WITHERED BLASTED SCUM OF A LICH!!!

[PopeLinus1]

MOTHERFRACK-

Frag damn Consecrate/Desecrate/Hallow/Unhallow damn turn/rebuke into channel energy conversation zombie-stanked vampire-copulating ghost-slimed wight-buried ghoul-crapping MUMMY-DUSTED WRAITH-WITHERED BLASTED SCUM OF A LICH!!!

...Are you okay?

[el minster]

MOTHERFRACK-

Frag damn Consecrate/Desecrate/Hallow/Unhallow damn turn/rebuke into channel energy conversation zombie-stanked vampire-copulating ghost-slimed wight-buried ghoul-crapping MUMMY-DUSTED WRAITH-WITHERED BLASTED SCUM OF A LICH!!!

Maybe its a bot.

[Aotrs Commander]

THree.

HunDREd.

PageS.

*eyeglow twitch*

*eyeglow twitch*
*eyeglow twitch*
*eyeglowtwitcheyeglowtwitcheyeglowtwitcheyeglowtwitcheyeglowtwitch*

[PopeLinus1]

THree.

HunDREd.

PageS.

*eyeglow twitch*

*eyeglow twitch*
*eyeglow twitch*
*eyeglowtwitcheyeglowtwitcheyeglowtwitcheyeglowtwitcheyeglowtwitch*

Oh god, oh god, please calm down, please calm down, please don't hurt anybody.

Are they... are they gone?

[Aotrs Commander]

*sounds of fire, distant explosions, incoherent screaming, shattering metal, disturbing liquid splorthcy sounds and a SK-Series rocket launcher being used as an extremely fervent bludgeonging implement*

Oh god, oh god, please calm down, please calm down, please don't hurt anybody.

*slowly peeks into thread*

Hi, Friendly Banter Thread! *waves hoof* I'm Ensign Derpy! I'm part of Bleakbane's station crew, long story, don't ask! I'm here because Hopereaver (that's his number two, she's magical lich-girl, even more don't ask) ran away and hid!

So, uh... Yeah. Miiiiiight be a little too late on that.

Are they... are they gone?

I mean, define "gone..."



*distant incoherent scream of rage*



♫We're all go-ing to die-ieeee!♫

Woohoo! I think!

I mean, not just on the station, like.. everyone.

[PopeLinus1]

*sounds of fire, distant explosions, incoherent screaming, shattering metal, disturbing liquid splorthcy sounds and a SK-Series rocket launcher being used as an extremely fervent bludgeonging implement*








*slowly peeks into thread*

Hi, Friendly Banter Thread! *waves hoof* I'm Ensign Derpy! I'm part of Bleakbane's station crew, long story, don't ask! I'm here because Hopereaver (that's his number two, she's magical lich-girl, even more don't ask) ran away and hid!

So, uh... Yeah. Miiiiiight be a little too late on that.







I mean, define "gone..."



*distant incoherent scream of rage*



♫We're all go-ing to die-ieeee!♫

Woohoo! I think!

I mean, not just on the station, like.. everyone.

Oh god, oh geez, oh no...

I always assumed we were all going to die because someone on this forum went mad with rage after their gaming project didn't work out, but I always assumed that person would be me!

Oh god, I don't have the time for all the paperwork my funeral is going to cause...

Godspeed, Ensign Derby, Godspeed.

[Aotrs Commander]

It's all gone quiet. I think he went outside. Which is Spaaaaaace! So we're probably...

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Huh.

So, everypony, it turns out Space is flammable if you get a magical space lich angry enough!



Who knew, am I right?



Oh, there's Hopereaver now! *waves* Say hi to Freindly Banter, Hopereaver

Derpy, not n... *sigh* Look, just... Don't panic, everyone, I've got a literal ton of chocolate here, like an actual metric ton for the Emergancy Storage... That might just do it we if chuck it at him out the airlock and...

Huh.

That's what I said!

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I don't even know how he's doing that, and I'M a magical space lich too.

Okay, LT, just chuck it out the airlock and hope; and if we're all still undead-slash-alive in the morning, we're probably fine.

Probably.

[PopeLinus1]

It's all gone quiet. I think he went outside. Which is Spaaaaaace! So we're probably...

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Huh.

So, everypony, it turns out Space is flammable if you get a magical space lich angry enough!



Who knew, am I right?



Oh, there's Hopereaver now! *waves* Say hi to Freindly Banter, Hopereaver

Derpy, not n... *sigh* Look, just... Don't panic, everyone, I've got a literal ton of chocolate here, like an actual metric ton for the Emergancy Storage... That might just do it we if chuck it at him out the airlock and...

Huh.

That's what I said!

...

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I don't even know how he's doing that, and I'M a magical space lich too.

Okay, LT, just chuck it out the airlock and hope; and if we're all still undead-slash-alive in the morning, we're probably fine.

Probably.

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Ya'll have some serious baggage.

[The Fury]

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Ya'll have some serious baggage.

...Think they're gonna be alright?

Also, I finished a playthrough of Vacant Sky. It was... OK. As free-to-download RPGs go, it's pretty decent so what complaints I do have about it aren't serious dealbreakers for me. The story is pretty damn dark though. Also, the soundtrack slaps.

[el minster]

They have this fun RPG on Kongergate called Foe: Remains. It's a combination of my little pony and the Remains games. It has "language befitting a distpian world" though.

[Bartmanhomer]

I think I've fallen in love with a Youtuber.

[DataNinja]

I think I've fallen in love with a Youtuber.

Well, you can have your crush privately, but don't go acting on it. Seriously, unless you know these people personally, all it'd do is making it awkward. Not only do you only know their public persona, the one that they project out - as opposed to their more personal one - but getting random comments and stuff from strangers is... weird. If they're a bigger one, too, guarantee that they see this a lot, and it's just awkward for them.

It's fine to appreciate them for who they are, but just know that it's not really something attainable - so don't let it keep you from elsewhere.

[Bartmanhomer]

Well, you can have your crush privately, but don't go acting on it. Seriously, unless you know these people personally, all it'd do is making it awkward. Not only do you only know their public persona, the one that they project out - as opposed to their more personal one - but getting random comments and stuff from strangers is... weird. If they're a bigger one, too, guarantee that they see this a lot, and it's just awkward for them.

It's fine to appreciate them for who they are, but just know that it's not really something attainable - so don't let it keep you from elsewhere.

It not even a major Youtuber. It's a smaller YouTuber who has 200+ subs. I subscribed to her and you're right I can't help it.

[el minster]

It not even a major Youtuber. It's a smaller YouTuber who has 200+ subs. I subscribed to her and you're right I can't help it.

distract youself it will help you get over it.

[Anonymouswizard]

It not even a major Youtuber. It's a smaller YouTuber who has 200+ subs. I subscribed to her and you're right I can't help it.

I mean, if you know her in real life or match on a dating site (and I do mean match, not just like her) then pursuing the crush might be okay, but seriously don't be the creepy fan who tries to go out with her. If it's hard to stop yourself then just unsubscribe, the less temptation the better.

[DataNinja]

I mean, if you know her in real life or match on a dating site (and I do mean match, not just like her) then pursuing the crush might be okay, but seriously don't be the creepy fan who tries to go out with her. If it's hard to stop yourself then just unsubscribe, the less temptation the better.

What? Who could ever know a Youtuber in real life? They're clearly rare and magical creatures who would never deign to stoop to the levels of us mere mortals. Would never happen. Preposterous. They just appear out of thin air.

[Aotrs Commander]

Ya'll have some serious baggage.

I'm an Evil-aligned-by-choice, omnicidal, megalomanical Undead abomination with a mithril-allot skelteon that rage-quit ouf of humanity the first second the chance to do so arose who second-in-command Lich is now is magical-girl-transforming Lich with another direct subordinate acquired from local reality hopping that is a magical talking pony with a muffin obession who learned necromancy so well she can create muffin zombies; said volentary horror opposed to light and life being also the... "trainer" of several hundred Pokémon of Carnage Team, the most prominent member of who is the living refutation that "Pokémon are nevr inherently bad;" who hasn't Done A Roleplaying once a week for two months for the first time in thirty years, let alone Play With Starships and who has spent nine months of several hours per day 5-6 a week writing 900+ pages of houserules.

YA THINK?!



If I have to re-paginate another 300 page document again in the same 24-hour period, I make no promises about the fate of the universe.

[PopeLinus1]

I'm an Evil-aligned-by-choice, omnicidal, megalomanical Undead abomination with a mithril-allot skelteon that rage-quit ouf of humanity the first second the chance to do so arose who second-in-command Lich is now is magical-girl-transforming Lich with another direct subordinate acquired from local reality hopping that is a magical talking pony with a muffin obession who learned necromancy so well she can create muffin zombies; said volentary horror opposed to light and life being also the... "trainer" of several hundred Pokémon of Carnage Team, the most prominent member of who is the living refutation that "Pokémon are nevr inherently bad;" who hasn't Done A Roleplaying once a week for two months for the first time in thirty years, let alone Play With Starships and who has spent nine months of several hours per day 5-6 a week writing 900+ pages of houserules.

YA THINK?!



If I have to re-paginate another 300 page document again in the same 24-hour period, I make no promises about the fate of the universe.

Alright pal.

Keep up the good work!

[Aedilred]

easydamus.com/alignmenttest.html



Yes, it took me many tries in the past which I got Lawful Good and Neutral Good. So I got the right question which the results are Chaotic Neutral.

I've seen this test a few times and almost started filling it in again before I remembered that it annoyed me so much that to complain about it here would be a better use of my time than completing it.

Let's start with question 1. 1. Family elders are expressing disapproval of you to the rest of the family. Do you:

Who are these "family elders"? What is the extent of their disapproval? Is what they are saying true? How large is this family and how influential is it to my life? Do you mean "my grandparents"? Or is this more of a clan situation where the family elders are more like an informal government? In which case how am I supposed to relate to that?

Bringing it back to my own experience, the "elders" of my own family (my grandparents) expressed disapproval of me to other members, and to my face, fairly regularly. What I actually did was ignore it. That option is not available.

2. Would you give up a promising career to aid the family in time of need?

Again, "the family". Am I a member of the cosa nostra? Is this some sort of Waco situation? Are we talking about the Manson family? What is this need and who needs my help? Is it a particular member of the family, or just "the family" in general? How much do they need my help: is it essential, or just nice to have? If we're talking about "the family" as a whole, wouldn't the best thing to help their interests to be to continue with my career and use that to promote their interests, or pass on the money I make?

If it's a member of the family, which member? A sibling? My parents? My child? A distant cousin? The weird pervy uncle I've never liked?

Let's leave aside "The Family" because that's obviously causing problems, and move on to the next series of questions about friends.

7. A powerful but corrupt judge offers you wealth if you'll testify against your friend. Do you:

What is my friend accused of? Do I think he's guilty? Surely these are the key questions? Is this a case where he is guilty but the prosecution will fail unless I testify? Or is he innocent and the judge wants me to set him up? Is he on trial for his life, for scrumping apples, or is it a question of a two-week deferred commuity service program after burning down an orphanage?

It's a question where the right thing to do is completely dependent on the context. Obviously, you shouldn't take the money, but everything else is up in the air. And why does it matter that he's my friend anyway? Surely the right thing to do is the right thing to do even if I don't know him from Adam?

8. Do you become close to friends, or hold most people at a safe distance?

These two things are not mutually exclusive.

9. Have you ever betrayed a friend?

What do we mean by "betrayal" here? Have I lied to a friend? Yes. Have I passed on information told to me in confidence? Yes, occasionally. Have I stolen from a friend? No.

Have I done things which friends have considered a betrayal even though I didn't and don't? Almost certainly.

It's too subjective. We need specificity.

10. How do you view lifelong commitment to a single romantic partner?

Here it's not the question that's the problem, it's the answers. They're too strongly worded, and make no real allowance for people who aren't interested in romance at all. The second one is the closest to a neutral response but there's still no middle ground between "really want that romantic ideal but am prepared to be realistic" and "want to sleep around", and I suspect that middle ground is probably where most people actually fall.

11. Do you insist on repayment when lending money to friends?

OK, this one is a bit better. It would still be useful to know how much money we're talking about. If I'm going to lend a friend £10,000, I'm probably going to treat that a bit more seriously than buying them a kebab when they've forgotten their wallet. Still though there's no option to just "forget about it"; even the "nicest" option is to say they just owe me a favour, whereas for small debts, forgetting about it might genuinely be the norm. I suppose we are talking specifically about loans rather than gifts, and there is more nuance than usual, but there is still a problem of context.

And it goes on like this.

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I think what bothers me most is that the way the questions are devised encourages you to think about what alignment you think you are, and then pick the option that seems most likely to correspond with it, rather than answering the question in isolation and then discovering the answer at the end. It doesn't provide any useful output. At best, it provides some prompts to think about what alignment you're really in.

Which makes it doubly curious that it took BMH several goes to get the "right" answer...

[Bartmanhomer]

distract youself it will help you get over it.

I mean, if you know her in real life or match on a dating site (and I do mean match, not just like her) then pursuing the crush might be okay, but seriously don't be the creepy fan who tries to go out with her. If it's hard to stop yourself then just unsubscribe, the less temptation the better.

Maybe this crush is just only a phrase.

[PopeLinus1]

Maybe this crush is just only a phrase.

So like, have you communicated with this person at all?

[Bartmanhomer]

So like, have you communicated with this person at all?

I've communicated with her on live stream and I expressed my feeling to her. And she feels flattering. I even subscribed her Youtube channel.

[Jasdoif]

I think what bothers me most is that the way the questions are devised encourages you to think about what alignment you think you are, and then pick the option that seems most likely to correspond with it, rather than answering the question in isolation and then discovering the answer at the end.

I think the questions are partly designed to measure what your mind fills in the blanks with on first glance, similar to how a character's alignment is most readily apparent in a situation where they (and their player) don't have most of the details but need to make a choice anyway.

If alignment wasn't such an overgeneralized hodgepodge of morals/ethics, having genuinely viable quantitative standards to test on would be possible (and a far better choice)...but alignment is precisely that sort of vague and subjective mess; so alignment tests are, too.

[Fyraltari]

I've communicated with her on live stream and I expressed my feeling to her. And she feels flattering. I even subscribed her Youtube channel.

You’ve made a love confession on a live stream? As in, in front of who-knows-how-many people?

[Bartmanhomer]

You’ve made a love confession on a live stream? As in, in front of who-knows-how-many people?

Yes about by 30 people in the live stream.