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#76973 - 11/15/06 01:58 PM Maybe it's just me...
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but everytime someone posts a "what if" scenerio isn't it a form of role-playing?

-Blast, who has watched "Bambi" six times this week with his sick daughter and thinks maybe Thumper's mom needs to come here and talk to people...



Edited by Blast (11/15/06 02:40 PM)
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#76974 - 11/15/06 04:00 PM Re: Maybe it's just me...
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Yes but we don't start talking gibberish and whip out a time machine.....that was a little wierd....

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#76975 - 11/15/06 04:50 PM Re: Maybe it's just me...
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Yes but we don't start talking gibberish and whip out a time machine.....that was a little wierd....


Only to someone unfamiliar with RPGs (which, in reality is a fairly small group). I guess it's kind of like when we start talking to PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER. about being prepared. They don't understand and start calling us weirdos.
Her "gibberish" was just a scene from one of her role-playing games. Boiled down to it's essence it's just another way of responding to the question, "What would you do?"

Different people have different frames of reference, that's all. Think of it as "Diversity".

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#76976 - 11/15/06 06:38 PM Re: Maybe it's just me...
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It was just that she went into "role playing" as if we would all follow along.
Talking about a "what if scenario" on this forum to hone your survival skills is reasonable but to just jump into fiction like that without prefacing it with an explanation makes no sense at all.
She showed up at a new forum and assumed we would appreciate her fantasy.
Look at how the thread unravelled when the gibberish started.
And it was gibberish IMO.
I have nothing with RPGs and folks who play them; in fact I played a lot of D&D back in middle school. I don't need to play RPGs anymore; my reality is pretty exciting. I live in a crappy part of Oakland. That keeps it interesting.

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#76977 - 11/15/06 06:45 PM Re: Maybe it's just me...
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I live in a crappy part of Oakland.


Oh man, you have my sympathy. Move to Texas! Pretty much any job you can get in CA you can get here with a much lower cost of living. <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Of course, we don't have beautiful mountains, majestic redwoods or stunning beaches but we do have all the, uh...hmmm...uh, let me think about this for a while and get back to you. <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

-Blast

p.s. Ah, would swampland and mosquitoes be appealling?
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#76978 - 11/15/06 07:59 PM Re: Maybe it's just me...
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Sure, it's a form of role-playing, but it also gets people to thinking. If you've noticed the Extra Information down at the bottom left of the main forum pages, you may have noticed that the unregistered users often outnumber the registered ones by 8 to 1. Suppose one single person sees someone's post on keeping your shoes beside their bed instead of their closet, and they think, 'You know, that really makes sense' and they do it. And then a week or a month later, an earthquake or explosion blows their window into their bedroom window at 3 a.m. Has this forum served a useful purpose?

IMHO, if someone even THINKS about what they could do in an emergency, those thoughts may come back to them in the crucial instant that they really need to do something. Even something as seemingly inconsequential as keeping a flashlight beside the bed could make the difference between life and death or injury, and being able to help someone else.

And, if you come right down to it, this whole site is based on What If.... Only a tiny fraction of the people here will probably ever need their kits or their food storage for anything. But if you need it and you don't have it.... THAT'S when the S really HTF.

Besides, new people are constantly joining the forum and some of the old ones leave. Ideas are constantly being refined and adjusted to current conditions.

And if you stop thinking, your brain rots.

Sue

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#76979 - 11/15/06 09:07 PM Re: Maybe it's just me...
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And now we're talking about it "behind her back" in another section of the forum... Must be a bad netiquette day.
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#76980 - 11/15/06 10:53 PM Re: Maybe it's just me...
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Man, I am so far behind the power curve, and probably the wrong generation. I thought a RPG was for blowing stuff up from a distance...
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#76981 - 11/16/06 01:47 AM Re: Maybe it's just me...
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Me too for the first minute or so.
I thought how did he get an RPG ain't those illegal?

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#76982 - 11/16/06 05:12 AM Re: Maybe it's just me...
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*bows to Blast, in the form of a teacher to a student* Exactly, grasshopper.

Step back, close your eyes, and think aboutat TEOTWAWKI +5 years. See anything familiar? Maybe something from a Faire? <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> That's just roleplaying, with a subconcious purpose.
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