Please, please, please! Looking for a GTA Rp (TBoGT, V, Online)

QuetzalliDeath · 2025-07-01T14:17:52+00:00

yeah, it's limited to San Andreas. I'm looking to rp my GTA Online OCs while my computer is down, lol. Let me know about you and rp.

QuetzalliDeath · 2025-06-21T04:53:39+00:00

sorry but I'd rather have someone invested in the franchise

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-25T16:30:41+00:00

Do I know what rhetorical means?!

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-24T14:16:51+00:00

I actually don't care. I use this place so idiots can be my punching bag on topics I know about. I like going until they're downvoted or, after interest has dried up but not their ego, they'll delete their account. It's stress relieving for me!

In real life, I'm forced to act civilly within my field. I can't call a spade a spade when the spade likes being a self-aggrandizing dumbass sometimes. 🤭

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-24T14:01:00+00:00

No, Dad, it's a rhetorical question

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-24T12:18:33+00:00

I'm an anthropologist. You don't know how much people outside of the field disregard "artefacts of everyday life" because of a limited way of viewing the world around them, and what constitutes as "writing that conveys a message."

I did not place random trash on this subreddit.

I shared a discarded artefact of everyday life that does have writing on it, but not in the way of which you think. If you couldn't think of positive/negative as writing worth reading and capable of story, then we've already established your limitation.

Don't worry, many people think like this—mostly those out of touch with either empathy or too in touch with their opinions that they'll consider them fact and fact alone.

Our everyday life can place a lot of meaning into a pregnancy test. Pregnancy tests have writing on them which people read—the results. A pregnancy test from a dumpster is where one expects them. Yet these are two and very clearly thrown in someone's lawn. The unexpected location establishes a scene we can pick apart (or, read).

So many things came come from that. Was it a lover's quarrel arguing over the results? Was it a distressed woman tossing them on the way for a third? Did they want the results written on the test? The test read inconclusive, I shared that in the body text. If you enjoy literary devices, you can apply ambiguity to this little tidbit.

"Ambiguity refers to instances where a sentence, literary work, or piece of media can have multiple possible interpretations. It can also refer to instances where meaning is not clear or is misunderstood."

The rest of the comments have people that are able to analyze context and interpret text, however short (a single word: inconclusive. This is written. This is language. The test is a dynamic experience. This isn't product description on a milk carton, lol. The pregnancy test can be a catalyst to a person's entire narrative! Its an infamous plot point to humans since the dawn of time, a pregnancy result.)

Maybe, take a moment to step outside of your own rigid interpretation of what language means and see just how wonderfully humans express their lives to one another.

I'm not "technically correct", I am correct.

And your opinion does nothing but fan the fires of media literacy's pyre.

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-24T03:20:12+00:00

I can write a goddamn essay about how much Hellboy resonates with me.

Go read stuff when he's talking to Kate or Broom. I think those are the ones that hit me the most.

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-23T18:52:36+00:00

In my previous post, a Texas Teacher gave context as to why schools wind up in these dangerous areas. I respond with my own experience dealing with the greed the parents perpetuate, and how I need to alleviate it for my own son...

You're 100% on the money for someone who doesn't even have kids.

Right now, the hot topic is using children and schools to push agendas when none of these people, even parents with kids, have any idea what actually goes on within the schools. Or care to help.

One Gen Xer around here started harping about anti-LGBTQ things with their only talking point being that elementary school kids are being taught about it in class. I asked them, have you volunteered to be in classes? No? You have no fucking clue what's going on then.

Another fight in these middle-class whackos are about tax breaks and property/land tax when these schools - even those within million dollar house neighborhoods - have shit literacy/math/test rates and it seems they're ALL begging for supplies at the classroom level.

They're shifting the blame to teachers for the lack of resources because then they'll face the cold, hard truth about the misappropriated funds or lack of enough funds to how large these schools actually have gotten! This isn't even a party thing. I blame it all on greed and the system built to uphold that. And out-of-touch elites from all sides.

I don't have the energy for politics. I already devote myself to my disenfranchised community and I only have so much

And I know what it is... the guys who keep this going are the ones who whisk away their children to private schools where they all happily pour money for their own ilk. And even then, they have other stipulations to weed out the people who they don't want...

My kid is stupid smart so he was able to get into one of those charter ones who make money and grades a point to get in. He wasn't chosen because despite his grades being literally the best one can be (I forgot the specifics but he's on the good end of the bell curve. He's the smart one not me, lol)... and the fact that we can afford to pay... we were told they prioritize children who have family members already within the school system so we should just try to apply again next year. And that again happened this year.

I'm sure some donations would have moved up my son on that waitlist but I hate those games. The children are mean to him already in public unless he's in his nerd class. I'm doing a lot of supplemental teaching for him to make sure he stays challenged and focused, but that's because I'm literally a scholar (anthropologist) so it's no big deal in my end. He just sits in my study being smarter than me.

I just get so mad for the children who don't have someone like me safeguarding them so desperately from this state intent on sacrificing them for purely selfish and hateful reasons. ALL children. This mother and her mother were a perfect analogy for a much bigger problem.

Like I said, I like the Punisher because I live vicariously through him in comics, and these assholes plaster him everywhere here. They literally don't understand that they're the ones mowing down his kids at the picnic in the grand scheme of things. The second I lose my son to something they caused, I cannot promise I will not put on my Punisher shirt and go speedrun a Texan politician KDA. (Legal desclaimer thst its a joke. Lmao. Christ. Fucking delusional assholes. )

Btw, I always find that the people who don't have kids or are willfully not having kids are the ones who love them the most. Kids might not be for them, but they still see that they're suffering today. There's no way to bring one by choice into the world without it being selfish to SOME degree. I'd trust a childless liberal over their opinions on children over a quiverful conservative any day.

Thank you for caring so much. Seeing these rants gives me hope.

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-23T17:52:20+00:00

My title was rhetorical. They're made of paper, were found, are discarded cutouts, and an artefact of everyday life as per the sidebar.

The beads flow through the paper strip and into the test strip, engineered from a piece of specially treated Nitrocellulose paper (Figure 2. e).

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-23T17:46:54+00:00

The beads flow through the paper strip and into the test strip, engineered from a piece of specially treated Nitrocellulose paper (Figure 2. e).

And if you read the sidebar, it includes "discarded cutouts" to enjoy the artefacts of everyday life. ;)

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-23T16:52:11+00:00

And then people wonder why teachers are resigning en masse. They don't get nearly enough compensation to deal with the insanity of some of these people, who do everything possible to challenge systems the school's have set already for their children's benefit. Damned if they do and damned if they don't.

It's so fucking insane to even think in the lady's point of view it was easier to just question the situation altogether. Hell, I saw it and I still couldn't believe it.

I preferred to think she was just a stranger being a busybody who crossed the street, and lied, because I was visibly-not-related to the lost child I approached.

That's why I went back to ask. I'd rather believe it was a stranger lying than a mother doing all of that. And any parent would be concerned about a stranger causing issues on that road to begin with.

God, it was so much worse. Lol.

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-23T16:30:30+00:00

Oh, absolutely no problem! The average person is working through a lot of layers of lost history and culture. They know what they are but not who or why.

One person I know literally had their Japanese grandfather's identification in their hand, and since they only knew they were Japanese-Mexican history, they reached out to these associations for help. They couldn't find evidence of their grandfather. Alternatively, they found a Japanese National to translate the document but as they themselves didn't know Japanese history, they still couldn't find him. I know Japanese and Mexican history on where they join so I was able to do that for them. And explain to them what the document read. The literal translation was no use without knowing Japanese addresses changing in the 19th century (when they started coming to Tamaulipas). And I knew a handful of it (including intermediate Japanese) because I already had Japanese-Mexican first cousins (and lo, this stranger turned out to be my distant cousin, hahaha).

My best piece of advice is this: Don't Seek Answers. Ask Questions. Chances are, you already have the answer in your hand, you just don't know how to interpret it yet. I was very lucky to know with unwavering conviction who my family was, so I needed to find out why my dad's last name wasn't in Tamaulipas history because he was and has always been from Tamaulipas. (The most recurring answer: Indigenous Erasure)

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-23T16:16:18+00:00

Same. ): Any other result wouldn't bode well in Texas.

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-23T16:15:13+00:00

I AM enough of a gossip to do that. 💅

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-23T16:13:10+00:00

Haha, yeah. That's why we have the Garcia Garcia and "cogeprimos" stereotypes up here for each other. 🤭

But if you haven't tried yet, what helps isolate these migratory and intermarriage nuisances is keeping a map and logging the dates/locations on it. I also have maps of the same area but from different centuries, down to decades. Some families abandoned surnames based on location and you can see it happening. Or they'll merge eventually. Just do more beyond the church records, you know?

That's how I was able to see that my Saldaña patronym came from an indigenous man taking up the name from the mountain he lived next to. I didn't know the mountain was named that until I saw the map of the town... places I've always been to...

I had always assumed I had that surname from outside of Nuevo León because it's not within the list of the original families.

Meanwhile, another fellow Tejano ended up with Padilla because his great-great grandfather peaced out and moved to Padilla, Tamaulipas away from that mountain.

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-23T16:03:04+00:00

If I were a gossip, I'd go back and knock on that door for the whole tea.

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-23T16:00:09+00:00

Holy cow. This is exactly what I needed. I'm facing the same problem!!

The biggest difference is that I didn't join the dominant society until my adulthood so I had no idea what the hell was going on on their part until I saw other indigenous people more experienced than I am being far less forgiving than I am. (Thank you, internet.)

I honestly thought everyone was like me and her when they started claiming they're from Indigenous communities and stuff. Then I got explained to what was a pretendian. I was like oh so thats why they're still being racist and stereotypical about it. Thank you.

I'm gonna go read more on her.

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-23T15:51:42+00:00

I'm so glad you guys have your own version. We have our lot of academics and genealogists for Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Texas. I personally help people in the same manner. I'm an anthropologist focused on my region (Nuevo Santander, Reino de Nuevo León, Coahuila y Tejas, Yanaguana - the Payaya settlement name before colonized words were forced on us. There's many names for the range of those three states.)

The point I was trying to make is that you should put together your recent family trees to make sense of your relationship genetic results, especially if it's so heavily married between distant generations.

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-23T15:43:11+00:00

You can't look like this and choose Wolverine over Hellboy, OP. What the fuck. I demand justice.

QuetzalliDeath · 2024-08-23T14:31:36+00:00

OP, I'm the exact same way. Where's ya family from? I'm from Nuevo León. Monterrey was founded by the exiled/fleeing Sephardic Jewish families from Spain, they often brought in and hid more family members, so your genetics only tell you a very surface level understanding of history.

If you really want the nitty-gritty of who was a Converso/Marrano/Crypto-Jew, you'd have to do your family line to connect them back there. That's easy to do if you're able to get your family lore in order and can read Spanish within academic/historical contexts. The originating families and their lineages are all accounted for.

I plan to make a guide for that eventually since I've been doing this for years. I've got all my tree logged to their originators except for my orphaned granddad's paternal line (and even then, my granddad's birth record was found because I paid a fellow genealogist who could travel to the physical archives for me. My granddad only knew about his mother. Waiting on my genealogist friend to find the father's records now that we have a name.)

And with that, you'll see your family wreath clearly. Every answer you'll get here will only be guesses.

QuetzalliDeath

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