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Hey. Boss.
Come to think of it, this is the first time we got to sit together here, isn’t it? The others never want me on the sofa. Bad Yoru, they always say. Heh. They don’t like mud. I get it—the one thing I always have is mud. But they’re not here right now, and strangely, I feel comfortable, being able to sit on the sofa like you, like everyone else. It makes me feel almost human.
I don’t know why that matters. I’m a dog, after all.
Uh-huh. I look in the mirror, there I am. Floppy ears, tongue that hangs out all the time because it doesn’t fit in my mouth. Black fur that’s never really clean. Sometimes I get this weird feeling that I expect to see something else. I can’t explain why, though.
The moon is going to be full again tomorrow. Maybe for the last time. Everybody’s been antsy, I can smell it. Do you think their hopes will come true? Will it finally be all over?
I hear them talk about the things they want to do once the Dark Hour is gone. The lives they’ll finally return to, before this year, before it all happened.
Me, I still don’t remember anything. All I know are the crazy adventures we had. Hunting Shadows. Running away from the octo-arm menace with the swords. So much green and red, except it’s not Christmas. Heh heh... huh, Christmas. I’m not sure why that popped into my head. I don’t think I’ve ever had one. It’s coming up soon, isn’t it?
Well, this year has been fun in a way. Terrifying in others. I’m sure you understand.
… Hey. While we’re still here, there’s something I never mentioned. Just to let you know, this probably isn’t a good idea, but I feel like I have to tell somebody eventually. I figure that somebody might as well be you.
It’s about the Shadows. It took me a while to realize that you guys couldn’t hear them, not the way I did. Sometimes the Shadows say things you’d expect someone chasing you with a knife would say. Other times, they’re confused, they don’t know how they got there, they don’t remember anything, they ask for help.
I don’t know what the worst one is. When they beg us to stop hurting them, or when they beg to die. That usually comes right after they say they can’t control themselves and take a swing at us.
I mean, you can’t understand them, and... they’re Shadows. You do what you need to do. If it helps, I don’t blame you. I never did. Sorry, you’re probably better off not knowing any of that after all. Honestly, I’m glad you can’t hear the voices. Some nights, they get to me bad enough that I don’t want to go out anymore.
I still do, of course, because you’re going. And I’ll come tomorrow, of course.
There’s another thing I wanted to ask.
What do you think will happen to me when this is over?
I don’t remember a life before this all started, so maybe I’ll just forget everything again when it ends. Or maybe it’ll be even worse. Tell you the truth, part of me has this bad, sinking feeling that I might just disappear. The idea scares me a lot. I might just be sitting here, panting at you like it’s another Sunday evening. But I’m really scared.
Can you do me a favour? If I do disappear, you’ll remember me, won’t you?
Ha… maybe I’m being silly. It goes without saying that you will, after all. You’re the boss. And, maybe I won’t disappear, which means I’m scared for nothing. And, maybe if I do, it’s not that scary.
I know you can’t hear me, but thank you for listening anyway.
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#1350075 Manly Krusha
Posted by Dopple
on 11 November 2013 - 03:36 PM
#1349983 Final Fantasy XIV
Posted by Dopple
on 13 October 2013 - 05:37 AM

Of course I had the taste to be a handsome lalafell. Why would you make anything else? Your other choices are human, big human, really big human, cat person, or elf. Sorry, I said elf; I meant ELEZEN, who are actually tall French people with pointy ears. I don't know why the whole yeah let's name our human race 'Hyur,' or 'Hume,' or something vaguely like 'human' that you might as well just say human without dancing around the word, but all right.
Surrounded by Crispy Bacons and Box Lickers, I've fortunately yet to have anyone ask why my name is stupid. It's Valruki Manaruki, with the whole "nice poem" thing going on because if you're a plainsfolk male like me, your name follows the scheme AB CB, where each of A B and C is restricted to one or two syllables. Along with a number of other fun rules involving repetition and suspiciously Japanese-sounding vowels that make coming up with a non-weeaboo name a nightmare. What's this anal business? They have naming conventions depending on your race, home region, and gender. Obviously most people don't care, otherwise we'd have fewer Kirito Dualbladeses walking around.
I appreciate the amount of thought they put into it, even though the end results have a high chance of stupid. How do you go about figuring it out? Whatever the case, as long as you don't call yourself something like 'Fafajoni' or my favourite, 'Tatatucha,' I think we're good.
The writing is magnitudes better than TERA's, but that's not saying much because TERA barely made any goddamn sense. Here NPCs at least explain why they can't just take out the trash themselves, and they don't (usually) ask you talk on their behalf to someone standing 10 feet away. So wonderful... Actually, I'm tired of reading crap in general so I've been giving dialogue bubbles a fraction of a second at most. Besides the standard 'Woe is me, now help fetch some bug shells,' that's all I really noticed.
Oh, yeah, gameplay? I know a handful of folks dying to play this from the beta, and it occurs to me that they're dying to play WoW. It's been all right, think WoW with an extra few elements, different lore, a shiny world/UI, and awful latency.
Music is easily soundtrack of the year. 10/10.
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#1349587 Who are you?
Posted by Dopple
on 31 July 2013 - 01:46 PM
There is no justice in the world, Kabukiman.
Three decades. Three decades has our greatest unsung hero called to the spirit of adventure, beckoning us to join him in discovering foreign lands--always, always with excitement and wonder, never burdened by the disappointments of reality. And three decades had he remained unhassled by the banshee claws of BL fangirls. For the longest time, it was as though he were impervious to their poison, just as he remained impervious to wickedness and despair in his journeys.
That ended tonight. It ended as abruptly and surely as glass shatters against stone, the reverberations of which rot my heart to its core.
I tell you, the arrival of the Evil One cannot be soon enough.
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#1349413 Let's have some drama!
Posted by Dopple
on 14 July 2013 - 05:23 PM
Also on the contrary, I'm not good at trolling.
If we're talking about a hypothetical situation, though? I think subtlety is useful and overlooked. You wanna be abrasive enough to dig under people's skin, but not so overt that they can just get rid of you (for example, using the rules).
Posting shock images and flaming incoherently is easy and probably won't have much impact unless you're harassing eight year old children. There's more success to be found in the willful ignorance route, but a lot of the time they'll shrug you off or work harder to ban you.
It's a little more difficult to identify things that make a particular community or person tick, and exploit them. What makes your position more threatening is how valid it appears, and how close it is to striking home on something personal. At that point you can add on some ridicule, and you'll likely start seeing people get upset. I think really successful trolling isn't when others should refuse to respond, but when they can't.
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#1349396 Let's have some drama!
Posted by Dopple
on 13 July 2013 - 12:29 AM
For a second I forgot what I was doing in here and was confused. Then I started laughing. You got me.
When I was over in Macau, many stalls were selling jerky as their main souvenir. I remember two of these shops, located directly across the street from each other. One of them was crowded, and the other was empty with its owners standing sullenly by the entrance, staring at the other side. This continued for about twenty minutes. So tourists would come by and see these two hubs receiving wildly different traffic, and they'd immediately assume that there was something wrong with the unpopular one. Then they'd go join the crowd, and the other store stayed perpetually empty, not because it sold bad wares, but because it was empty.
(On the way back, there was a turnaround on the flow of costumers and the previously popular store was experiencing a serious case of tumbleweeds while the other store prospered. I bought some from both and honestly couldn't tell the difference.)
TL;DR: Average people making judgements based on those of their peers.
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#1349391 Let's have some drama!
Posted by Dopple
on 12 July 2013 - 07:48 PM
Gang up on a single member for no other reason than "he's weird".
People may very well use something vapid like "That fellow there is an idiot," as the reason for their own negative behaviour. Or "he's weird," as you put it. But how elaborate a reason is mostly depends on its validity coming under fire. You'd get a "No, [x, y and θ reasons]!" in response to directing your criticism there.
The reasons aren't that important I don't think.
I think it's got more to do with social aspects: My friend(s) don't like this person which predisposes me to dislike him also; my friend(s) disapprove of this arbitrary behaviour... et cetera. It can take just one opinion to tip the scale in that direction. When you don't like someone, it's a lot easier to find everything he says and does annoying, as well as inflate his flaws while downplaying his merits. Then add the fact that people generally feel more secure acting as a group, and you have a pretty good recipe for a bandwagon. (The opposite is also true: if nobody agrees with a certain position, someone taking that position can feel pressured into reconsidering it, even if it's correct.)
But anyone can become a "sheep" under the right circumstances and environment, so I don't like to fling that kind of accusation around. It's really just people being people.
... Huh, this wasn't what the topic was supposed to be about, was it? I don't exactly have a storied record of drama following me.
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#1349295 Which MapleStory Is The Best!
Posted by Dopple
on 06 July 2013 - 05:23 PM
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#1349288 ♥ ♥ ♥ Rengar ♥ ♥ ♥ cute kitty
Posted by Dopple
on 05 July 2013 - 03:59 PM
I'm so proud of me for neglecting homework. This is Rengar from League of Legends, by the way. Isn't he the sweetest?
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#1349161 1 kitty and 1 orc
Posted by Dopple
on 26 June 2013 - 09:58 PM
As I got closer, I saw the horror that had occurred. Lyra was laying there, a long, bloodied blade sticking from her back, impaling her, a draconequus with flowing white hair holding its handle.
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