Space

The solution is basic universal income. However that can only be feasible when a certain portion of the production is automatic. 

n-no, let the market prevail, zaeaze! the market won't fail us! the market the free market!

There can be no market if not everyone can contribute. 

I do all the time :^)

Is it fun?

Halflings plant children in the cabbage patch

Yes and you can say that that translation of location is velocity, no?

Not exactly when it comes to portals. As one moment you are somewhere, then the next you are instantaneously elsewhere.

ok nevermind

I don't think you believe that there are 'off limits' jokes, do you?

No, but those hosts do.

then they are dumb hypocrits

shut your computer down now

https://twitter.com/fucktyler/status/285670822264307712?lang=en-gb

i love how butthurt the replies are

they should really follow the advice they're criticizing 

>>>>Using the word 'patriarchy'

jesus can you SHUT THE **** UP I WAKE UP TO 21 NOTICFICATOIPNS **** OFF UFKC OFF **** OFF **** OFF

ok

',:'^)

You feel really strongly about this apparently. Ait man.

From my personal perspective, my frost witch having a relationship has been an important part of her character development because of her being a frost witch. Witches are basically the same archetypal creature as a vampire or werewolf, they are in a constant struggle between their humanity and their monstrous side. And look at how many vampire and werewolf stories involve romantic plots, and the conflict that comes when a monster tries to love a normal person. The human part of them wants to live a normal life, have normal relationships, and just be a normal woman, while the monstrous side compels them to kill. It makes relationships a struggle. I can't speak for other frost witches, but I've always RP'd that struggle. You, specifically, are just not gonna see that RP cause you're not in on it. Sorry if it offends you so much.

40 comments? ****

Sorry for the late reply -

I would disagree that the Frosties are the sole characters based on "sexist notions". In fact, there's a much bigger scale of 'sexism' on the server - Oren. Oren in general is or has been extremely "sexist" (although less so nowadays, there's been female saints and knights), although this can be justified by stating that it's mimicking the medieval ages. The only flaw I find in that is that the LOTC world is not analogous to the real one in terms of genders, unless you use the "four brothers" ancient lore to state that women are inferior, etc. Women are just as capable as men in the LOTC world, so it seems strange to have a patriarchal society just pulled out of thin air.

On the other hand, with the Mori, a sexist (in this case Matriarchal) society made sense, since Nemiisae loved the ladies and only bestowed various gifts upon her favorite gender, as far as I can remember.

I personally don't have a problem with either Oren or Mori. Characters are are to themselves, and they have to be justified. After all, people that murder for money, baseless religious reasons, and racism all happen on the server. I've seen an Olog try to eat a baby. I've seen a woman drowned for being an elf. A man flayed because he couldn't remember a prayer. Sexism is to be expected, as this isn't tolerance simulator 2015. That said, elder scrolls approach is one of my favorites: Don't worry about gender.

But like I think I will let this go lol. Dum notifications turning status updates into threads. 

put more salt on that GARLIC BREAD, friend

FMs are gonna be DISHING out Warning Points!

Salt 

not making a comic about your opposition like a sperg and actually making a detailed essay/argument/post on reddit after thoroughly researching the history of MRA, cross-sourcing, and developing counterarguments based upon more researched evidence (anecdotal evidence can be considered but is nowhere near as prevailing as quantitative) 

but that's too hard so the easy way would be to make a webcomic preaching to the choir for months on end, strawmanning, and asking for Patreon donations

not saying they can't do it, but I personally have no taste for political webcomics unless somehow they're genuinely well-fleshed out, but even then fitting an essay into multiple panels would be hard so I understand 

also holy **** you have nearly 100,000 profile views wtf man

I mean they can still be funny but they prove anything.

i mean i don't think you can use a webcomic of proof of something, and i've never implied that. i also don't really think that the intention of the web comic was to show a genuine interaction between Cyndi Lauper and an MRA, but rather an argument common to the political movement applied to a comedic situation. Y'know, a ******* joke

And I disagree I don't think the only way to discuss anything political is through intense scholary means, that seems completely out of touch with reality. People like humour and laughing and most aren't laughing at a comic on /r/comics because they want to be persuaded as to why MRAs are ******* retarded.

Idk I feel like you're taking this far too extreme my dude

also yeah i'm popular af dude xdd

reported

keep up the good work, chuck

Yes, that's the only way to be a meat eater I think. You have to have some sort of 'humanity' indicator that allows you to make the distinction. You can't have a line that doesn't include any humans while also including animals.

And you'd also have to accept that animals have no rights at all and are possessions and we should be able to do what we want with them, including torturing or killing them.

Ya'll eating animals is weird... watch Dominion and see: https://www.dominionmovement.com/

and it's not a matter of purity and all that is bad roleplay. it made the high elves cool an unique and they offered a different type of roleplay than any other group (except the kha I guess, but they ended up living with the High Elves a few times). but then the dark elves adopted it and the wood elves adopted it to an extent and it got sorta... not unique, not different, overused, etc.

I think its mostly because nationalists are the easiest to rouse roleplay. Playing a pacifist would involve having their values continuously challenged, and other factions will certainly target you for it (IE orcs and tribute demanding). 

If you dont have strong nationalism, you need something else that will form a core value to base the culture on. In the books of Divergent, they had 5 distinct cultures (daredevils, intellectuals, hippies, truth speakers, and unconditional kindness), but they lived together in a strange and forced understanding, to which in the end a faction inevitably tried to attempt complete take over.

Having a pacifist culture wouldn't be very sustainable in the world of LOTC, and the high elves are perhaps the most 'peaceful' among st all groups. Still have their own warriors to defend themselves. Can you imagine roleplaying to be a defeated faction over and over again? 

There are actually a decent amount of neutral territories, Sutica being a prime example. So no its not all 'death to every outsider'. And keeping in mind the war that Ames have fought with Aherals, there will always be tension present. You cant just turn the Ames into pacifists all of a sudden, especially since they were conquered and subjugated ruthlessly so many times. 

There is always more to a culture than strong nationalism, with overlaying themes and what not. Aherals with their stringent rules and careful social etiquette, Ames with their ferverent Aspect worship, Ker with their ancestral and shadowy themes. I dont think you can find a culture in real life that didn't have its share in bloodshed. Everyone was violent and peaceful at points in times. So to say that we are all the same really hurts us who put so much effort into developing them, and its why we do get defensive! 

You do present some very interesting suggestions, Space, but I cant see them being feasible unless the culture can sort of pay for its protection. Everyone's gotta live at the end of the day :P

Sorry for the long rant, this status debate was very interesting!

Wood elves are the way they are because of a few centuries of aggression from every race pretty much.

We disallow interbreeding because it's logical (why would you let your children **** something that'll die in ten years, and know their KID will ALSO die in 10 years? same principle for elves breeding w/ humans)

We dont let many outsiders into the city to prevent interbreeding for aforementioned reasons

We rigidly enforce the teachings of the gods of nature, the aspects, cause you know, we're wood elves

We put strong emphasis on nationalism and culture cause in our eyes that's what malinor lacked and that's what made it weak

So pls no complain on OOC statuses, everything you see happened that way cause of RP.

You're literally doing the same thing lol. Lotc bans aren't anything like trials so idk why you'd compare it to something like that. I agree Sky shouldn't have made a br in the first place, he should just ignore the irrelevant **** that drfate is. His behavior hasn't improved since he joined the server so I don't wonder why people dislike him, but unless Sky got somehow personally offended he shouldn't have made a BR. He should've just ignored Drfate and his **** talk because he should know better than what an infamous troll says. But you shouldn't go on about it either, you're complaining about someone doing something that you're now doing in return.

if you think so

Space, you're being a cry bully right now. Shut up and stop ******* publically shaming everyone. 

because this is something we care about and enjoy and wish to better? because why the hell not

I also attempt to devalue things by pointing out the environment in which they are being discussed. This proves that I am cool irl and totally play minecraft roleplay ironically.

^{PVP FUN ME WANT PVP}

Who cares.

Bet @Thomas

o i c they seem ok then

You never criticised one of my opinions you criticised a YouTuber @_@

your opinion on sargon ' Nah he's fine.'

'Lmao. You say all that with fury in your eyes but what actual evidence do you have

Because I'm lazy, out hiking in the woods and it's funny

Probably more of the former

as opposed to people who get paid millions to act, sing, dance, produce, direct, write, etc.

Yup

no you communist canadian, go back to russia. There's no legal requirement for it, and it's been handled in schools.  He was just being lazy and then had to eat all the bs he made by making some lochte level pr protest claim.

If your response was worded wrong why not clear it up? Don't think thee was any reasonable cause to lock that thread. People were acting pretty civil- Saying 'there are only 2 genders' or making some joke like 'if I had a dollar for every gender I'd have 2 dollars' isn't really 'bad.' It's off-topic and maybe he reasonable people of the world can see it's a stupid thing to say, but that was probably the comment that I could see as MAYBE bad, but hardly that even.

i bigly disagree with you

i guess the better question is 'what could i have done as the op to not have the thread removed?'

Sorry for taking a while to get to this, I was sleeping. The thread has been unlocked.

jfc you should've just asked for it for free with that as a reward, don't even need to pay that much more to get a better game...

**** man cheeeeel.

I'm forever Rand Paul. Yes I know, I do not support a woman that was part of the reason we still drop bombs on brown people, therefore, I'm sexist. 

He has more of a chance than Hillary now.

not to mention his absolutely mind boggling vp pic, who ' Congress should oppose any effort to recognize homosexual's as a discreet and insular minority entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended to women and ethnic minorities. '

http://web.archive.org/web/20020206052612/http://www.mikepence.com/issues.html

*Claps* This conversation explains exactly why so many people have left. Great job guys.

And both sides are equally guilty. You both "troll" (I use that term lightly, most of it isn't even trolling), you both take way too much offense at the others every action, you both don't respect each other, you both senseless dislike each other and you both need more vitamin C.

Fun fact im trolling lol

Probably just a coincidence, but

http://steamcommunity.com/id/juve9138

that's his steam account for the csgorumble website

one of the names it went by was 'BL Sniped'

well there is a steam account with that name

http://steamcommunity.com/id/blsniped

with a vac ban

no, I should have put a lol or something on the end

it's just funny to see

interesting

Any don't get me wrong-- I personally do trust Brules to act appropriately, without bias or whatever. But when BIAS is what you're talking about you can't let your own BIAS get in the way, y'know?

If a gm was present why did they just sit and watch instead of stopping rule breaking and trolling that they are aparently witnessing?

I did! Simply that wasn't included in the BR gyazos.

imagine actually believing these things

Oh yeah I'm sure having massive amounts of people subjugated and enslaved to produce resources for a far away country is a good thing for the world.

its a good thing for that far away countries economy at least