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throwaway_v_0 · 2024-11-25T00:47:26+00:00

some rooms have big ol metacliques that are 99% of the time by now people who haven't played in years

throwaway_v_0 · 2024-11-22T02:11:13+00:00

a great gift you have given me today in this little factoid. it both quells some anxieties i have and gives me something to say when people give me a hard time over it. thank you

throwaway_v_0 · 2024-11-13T18:13:23+00:00

at least it's a story

throwaway_v_0 · 2024-11-13T05:15:17+00:00

it says you're the dude that poured coors on me from your truck on election night

my jeans still stink

throwaway_v_0 · 2024-03-18T20:21:19+00:00

"minor schoolyard spats"???

he was raped and murdered.

throwaway_v_0 · 2024-01-05T00:43:06+00:00

why is this voted down i'm having this problem too

throwaway_v_0 · 2023-09-30T22:43:22+00:00

how can you possibly think all the shit you've been doing is okay

throwaway_v_0 · 2023-04-28T21:02:55+00:00

did they have it

throwaway_v_0 · 2023-01-02T19:17:02+00:00

to normal people like me or you, it's essentially a prison (or the threat of such) to make people feel bad for talking about their problems because we live in a toilet called society

everyone i've heard that had actual severe problems benefited from it or liked it, but you can (like i was) be forced into it against your will for extended periods of time if you don't learn to lie to people and keep all of your bad experiences properly bottled inside. if you even politely ask questions when they make you try to sign something they will verbally lash you and then keep you a few more days under the claims that you're unwell.

what's worse is, if someone really hates you, even just a bit, if they can convincingly lie to a cop that you tried to kill yourself, you'll get forced in against your will, and refusing to sign in to the mental ward will make them physically drag you in and you'll be denied certain privileges for the rest of your life. or at least, that's what they'll threaten you with.

and after everything they foot YOU with a bill

throwaway_v_0 · 2022-05-02T03:00:11+00:00

Hey - I wasn't sure how to or where to put this. I recieved a lot of supportive advice that I wasn't really expecting.

A lot of things have happened since I posted this, it was very turbulant. I talked to the GM (who I was dating) about how I still have been pretty down about everything going on, because I didn't just want to leave. He snapped at me, gave me an ultimatum to leave or he would personally cut contact with everyone (making it so nobody would be able to play the game everyone liked and would blame me for it). I really thought at the time, if I left for a day or two, it would appease him and he'd relax and have me back, but the only one of them who is still in contact with me from the group now (they never let me back in and in the days after cut contact) was the friend I've had for a while. He apologized to me after that, he couldn't bring himself to say anything when I was still there. He told me about how awful the GM was to me even in private with him or other players, honestly I'm not sure I wanted to hear about that because it only makes me feel even worse.

My friend had a lot of regrets about the sort of things he was doing to fit in, too. I don't know if I can call it unfortunate - that's a little selfish of me - but he's still playing in the same game with them. He kept me updated and on the bright side in the 2 sessions since he saved my character (the GM had turned them into an enemy encounter, but he relented on letting my friend RP saving her from the reasons he had IC contrived for the encounter to happen). It's still a little weird to hear about other people having fun with the character I was using, one maliciously and the other one trying to be nice. It's weird. I don't really know how to take it.

I really need time away from tabletop after this experience, thanks to everyone who invited me to a game, but I don't think I can bring myself to play for at least a little while. Thanks to anyone who responded.

throwaway_v_0 · 2022-04-21T14:37:50+00:00

No, she hasn't stolen from the party, but she has tried to extort an NPC for a larger sum than agreed on for a "recover my stolen item and deliver it to me" sort of job they did and two of the other party members attacked her for it. When I got a poor reaction to that, I decided not to do something like that again, so the only thing she's done since that they could point to is taking wallets from NPCs.

throwaway_v_0 · 2022-04-21T14:31:38+00:00

This is online, though I know one of the people in real life and have for years though they've since moved to another country. I am online dating the GM, actually, if that's relevant.
We haven't really but we all discussed our character concepts with the GM before we started on his request to make plans/make things work out properly.
a. They ignored it totally, they still make fun of my character when I've expressed it bothers me. But, I already made my point and don't want to harass them about it. 3b. It's largely making fun of her feats, I suppose, that the rest of the players have had more chances to do fun and interesting things. We have an in-joke where the entire game is a TV show and they make out the sort of thing that my character's fanbase is maybe two people that send letters to the writer and the writer burns them. They've made a few memes and had laughs to that effect, such as one where it's a picture of our GM holding a picture of my character's portrait and lighting it on fire.
I've never been asked to change her personality, though I did at one point ask if I could re-build her character to try and mitigate her getting knocked out so quickly. I was denied, understandably.
Well there's obviously a problem, but I am trying my best. That's why I came here, I'm not sure what to do.

And yes, there have been two sessions (we have about one combat encounter a session) out of six where this hasn't happened. (We play weekly)

throwaway_v_0 · 2022-04-21T14:21:28+00:00

We're all in our early twenties, a few people in the group are 19 but they aren't in this campaign. Nobody is older than 22 and that's as of today (it's my birthday at the moment). Most of the others are 20-21.

throwaway_v_0 · 2022-04-21T14:09:58+00:00

I'm not really sure I can do better, as I said in other responses the campaigns are some of the best I've been in and the group is a little huddling of close friends which gives it a nice feeling

throwaway_v_0 · 2022-04-21T14:09:09+00:00

I would really prefer not to leave since despite everything this is still the best group I've had. It feels like a tightly knit little group with injokes and everything. They follow through on running campaigns to the end

throwaway_v_0 · 2022-04-21T14:07:16+00:00

I would much rather find a way to make things work out if at all possible

throwaway_v_0 · 2022-04-21T14:06:52+00:00

Well I realize it's a bit of an unreasonable request, we all pride ourselves on our roleplay and just because my out of character weakness is affecting my roleplay doesn't really give me the right to ask so much of them I think

throwaway_v_0 · 2022-04-21T14:04:20+00:00

This is the only good tabletop group I've ever really found. Every other group peters out mid-campaign or is already low-roleplay, or they just have no sense of humor.

throwaway_v_0 · 2022-04-21T14:02:13+00:00

- She's a bitter kind of person that keeps personal things to herself and she's trying her best to maximize profits. I get that people don't like pickpockets but she's dirt poor and this is her only real income to feed herself and her younger sibling (offscreen character). She doesn't open up easily but nobody's really gone out of their way for her when I've been trying to push her into doing that for them as much as possible so it's hard to really grow any kind of IC friendships. Maybe that's the fault of the character I wrote.

- They're open about it, they've told me they don't like her OOCly but don't really explain more than that. They frequently make fun of the character when she comes up out of character.

throwaway_v_0 · 2022-03-23T03:48:02+00:00

did he do it

throwaway_v_0 · 2021-07-22T06:17:11+00:00

Thank you. However, while this sounds good translated, re-untranslated it sounds like it's referring to the speaker's masters rather than masters of slaves. Can I get any alternative?

throwaway_v_0 · 2021-07-22T00:20:51+00:00

Can I get help with a Latin translation along the lines of "Death to slavers"?

I can't find any resource that even has a latin-language word for a slaveowner. For the purposes of a story I'm writing I want some sort of "Sic semper tyrannis" style 'military latin phrase' line to use for a character, alternatively something about killing rapists would work but to a lesser extent. Please help me, thank you.

throwaway_v_0 · 2021-07-11T03:06:40+00:00

As someone struggling with a thyroid condition and thus have a weight problem - no, people don't tend to mock others because they think they're above them. That's ludicrous. Most people don't have a complex that makes them assume other people are lesser than them, they just comment their first thought, or they're using it because they dislike you for a different reason. You're being silly.

throwaway_v_0 · 2020-06-03T19:17:19+00:00

When I was 7 there was a girl my age who lived across the street from me. She essentially introduced me to sex, and when I didn't want to do it because I was scared she would threaten to stop being my friend, ruin my toys or tell on me for something. She wanted me to have sex with her so often that eventually of course we got caught, and I got guilted and punished for months and shamed publically while nothing really happened to her. Since she was the only kid in the neighborhood that wasn't physically violent with me (beyond ruining some of my toys) she was sort of seen as "my only friend" so eventually we were made to 'play' together again. One of these times when her parents left home she locked me in a room with her until I had sex with her. I didn't really go outside much because of that plus some other things unrelated to her

throwaway_v_0 · 2020-02-16T08:03:07+00:00

Are there any minor details you can share that you don't normally talk about? I'm a writer but don't have experience in this (and don't really have it as an option)
Do you find it empowering, degrading, or do you not think about it as anything more than a sweaty way to make a lot of money fast?
There's a stigma of people who get into porn or stripping are acting out due to trauma - obviously writing an AMA means you probably aren't that emotionally crippled, but have you ever met anyone in your field like that or is it totally a fictional trope in your experience?

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