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No worries, Farro. I had a feeling you were full, I just had to type that up before I lost hold of the idea. Thanks for the compliment. I'll be hanging out and watching, it's always fun to see a story unfold

Very interested. I'd love to help set it up as well. I often wind up STing/DMing/GMing tabletop groups with friends, so I have more experience setting up worlds and NPCs than making/playing characters anyways. I'll start a discussion thread so that we can get the ideas rolling and get it up...

I must say, I rather like this idea. Having an established setting with established NPCs that characters could interact with of their own accord (meaning people could post actions for NPCs as well as the "host," so that the action would never stop as long as a couple people drifted in and out)...

Alright, I'm likely not the most qualified to give advice in this situation, since the only race to win a girl's heart I've ever had with a friend ended in him knocking her up, them getting married and then divorced all in the course of about a year... So, yeah, but I'll try. It looks like...

This is it. That's the one. Sums it up pretty solid right there. What society considers normal doesn't directly relate to what society thinks is crazy. Generally, societies are aware that other societies have different measures of normal, and account for that. Where it breaks down is when...

Sum1sgruj, just a tip of the hat to you, before I move on to lionheartcs' post - while I still disagree that there is absolute anything regarding morality - by your definitions, your logic is solid. The only thing I could really do at this point is argue with the way you're defining good and...

Bored of playing FF12, and hoping to dodge doing dishes until tomorrow evening (it worked), I decided to type this up regardless. Worst case, there isn't any room for me, and I can save it for another time, so I'm not too stressed about it. Critiques accepted and appreciated: Name: "Verth"...

I don't have any advice, and you weren't asking for any anyways, so I'll avoid trying to say anything to sound helpful. If it's any consolation, I've been in a similar situation before, so I really feel for you. It's rough, and it's intense, but you seem to have the best outlook possible for...

Being a huge fan of literature, it's safe to say that things come up in books that games would never touch, and books are considered socially acceptable - held up as an invaluable form of media, even. Placing the blame on videogames is just absurd, and won't get to the root of the problem. As...

I never, in a single instance, in a single playthrough of 9 ever experienced trance at a useful moment. Alternatively, watching my wife play the game, on one of the late bosses her entire party was dead except for Vivi, who was berserk. Vivi tranced, and brought it all back from the brink of...

This is going to sounds a little crazy, but my answer would have to be Lady Gaga. Not a big fan of her music, but she's clearly a trickster goddess. Her wardrobe is something that only an other-worldly being would conceive of or wear (meat. 'nuff said). The only other people I've seen with...

I realize that it's probably the final countdown before this game gets going, but I read through the entire thread last night, and had an intense flash of inspiration for a character today. Still have room for one more? I'd really love to be involved, but if it's full up, I'm not going to be...

Leaving my opinions on suicide out here, because they aren't helpful, I have for you two very noteworthy things to ponder: 1stly, you're only 19. Brain chemistry continues shifting until the age of 24-26. Making any major life decisions (killing yourself included, obviously) before you hit...

What a society thinks is right is simply the things it thinks is right, the good of others is optionally involved. Generally, it's for the good of all, but that's not guaranteed. Even then, by that definition, torturing prisoners of war in any manner is acceptable and moral, because the...

This does a pretty solid justice to how I feel about this. The voices I imagine for the characters go a long way to shaping how I think about them (food for thought, how many people on these boards do you know what they actually sound like? do you hear different posts in different voices?), and...

I'm sorry, but I can't find anywhere that defines morality as that. All of the sources I'm seeing define morality as a code set forward by society. Here's an example: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/ . If a whole world says that murder is morally just, then by their moral...

How can a socially/individually defined construct have an absolute version? I can see the concept of some perfect option where your actions only contribute positively and never detract, but I can't imagine a scenario where that would be more than a concept. Absolute morality, like all...

The entire cast of 7 seems to have this problem continually. No one gets moving when it really matters, and as a result they all have their moments of tragedy. Personally, I felt that the characters were all a bit hollow, and using these tragic incidents is an easy way to make people feel...

Alright, before this continues, I've got to make a request: Czen, please give us your definitions for the terms god and deity. I'm cool with arguing semantics, and I'm good for arguing philosophical ideas, but we have to establish which one we are actually doing.

Love it. The game did things to my math and memorization skills that nothing else could have when I first played it. There was something very rewarding about knowing exactly how much damage an enemy could take, how much you could dish out, and planning every attack just right to avoid attacking...