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The vote isn't closed yet. That's the problem.
The Perfectly Normal High School: A Slice of Life Quest! (Defunct)
- Thread starter LuciDreamer
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LuciDreamer
Maliciously Incompetent
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I'm not preferring one vote over another. Really.
I guess the way I worded that implies a preference, and I recognize that the fact that I'm keeping the vote open just seems to be in ill-faith.
...now that I think about it, it really does look suspicious. :<
But, I really am not delaying closing the vote hoping that the vote changes. Honest. My main reason for wanting to delay it was that I'm still working around in my head how to roll for the RikuRiku event - I've got to make it something interesting but mechanically consistent, after all!
I'm really sorry that it seems like I am trying to manipulate the votes. I promise that I have no vested interest in any of the vote choices.
2) No one bat an eyelid when Silas mentioned his nationality because few were paying attention, and the few that did assumed he misspoke and was saying he was part of some culture in the Mihoku periphery.
No one in Silas's class knows what Ozzetche is. Except for his senseis, of course. It's a rather obscure country, after all, and it only shows up occasionally.
Notice my wording. It's important!
Don't worry, though! It will only get worse. *evil cackling*
I'll fix that, though! Yes, if you want to have Silas talk socially with Big Sis, that'd be for the relevant suboption.
I forgot to add that tidbit into Shinohara and sensei's conversation, but Shinohara's parents opted her out of most physical education classes. She spends that time studying, occasionally.
As for that other part...
That's actually going to be a gag somewhere down the line. Whenever you see something that implies Silas knows something that you don't, know that it is definitely intentional!
I guess the way I worded that implies a preference, and I recognize that the fact that I'm keeping the vote open just seems to be in ill-faith.
...now that I think about it, it really does look suspicious. :<
But, I really am not delaying closing the vote hoping that the vote changes. Honest. My main reason for wanting to delay it was that I'm still working around in my head how to roll for the RikuRiku event - I've got to make it something interesting but mechanically consistent, after all!
I'm really sorry that it seems like I am trying to manipulate the votes. I promise that I have no vested interest in any of the vote choices.
For background information like this, I plan to dripfeed in the next news update. That's still a thing, don't worry!
1) Mandatorily, two. Besides the language of the country, Amberrish (both spoken and written) is required for political and cultural reasons. Pravic is an optional course available to schools that request it; Miyao, so far, has not requested a Pravic educational language package. Because most of the jungle/island nations to the south teach their students how to speak Mihokugo out of principle, most schools in Mihoku proper do not teach the native languages of those countries, although private tutors are usually available in large cities like Miyao.
2) No one bat an eyelid when Silas mentioned his nationality because few were paying attention, and the few that did assumed he misspoke and was saying he was part of some culture in the Mihoku periphery.
No one in Silas's class knows what Ozzetche is. Except for his senseis, of course. It's a rather obscure country, after all, and it only shows up occasionally.
Notice my wording. It's important!
It was a direct result of Big Sister's absence. I was going to make that more and more apparent as the week progressed, but honestly I don't trust myself to finish the week in a timely-enough matter for the revelation to be rewarding.
Don't worry, though! It will only get worse. *evil cackling*
...hum, that's strange, I could have sworn "Just talk" was an option the whole time...
I'll fix that, though! Yes, if you want to have Silas talk socially with Big Sis, that'd be for the relevant suboption.
And I have answers!
I forgot to add that tidbit into Shinohara and sensei's conversation, but Shinohara's parents opted her out of most physical education classes. She spends that time studying, occasionally.
As for that other part...
That's actually going to be a gag somewhere down the line. Whenever you see something that implies Silas knows something that you don't, know that it is definitely intentional!
Halowed02
Person who really needs to read things better
- Location
- Gensokyo
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- Earth
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- He/Him
Hey, it was worth a shot.
This is the first time I've seen the GM complain about being railroaded...
I mean, in-context it makes sense, but out-of-context it's kinda funny.
If it was the invisitext quotes about invisitext
I'm not exactly great at anagrams.
I completely forgot Reizei had a sister at all.
What vote?
Thanks.
[X] [-] Keep trying to contact Maeda.
I'm not sure I follow. SELF is intended as a check on the Federation, no? So wouldn't that be kinda like someone being interested in the USSR but not caring about the existence of NATO, except with less violence?
I'm pretty sure they count as net assets. Unless I've seriously underestimated how ditzy Rakuyama is.
We still use cars, and they've been around for more than a century...to say nothing of inclined planes and pulleys Some forms and functions continue to be useful long after they're invented.
...
Is it just me, or are the shipping plans starting to sound a bit creepy and pick-up-artist/stalker-ey to anyone else?
Oy, what are you implying?
- Location
- The state of Paranoia
For the record, I don't feel like you're trying to manipulate the votes at all. I wouldn't feel like changing my vote because of that.
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I thought it would make the spaghetti less obnoxious.
And I've never understood the problem with splitting up posts like that when you have multiple bits to respond to.
Jhin Lemon
Lawful Cute
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- Trapped in the interwebs, please send help
Plus it makes it hard to respond to without doing the same thing.The Rules thread said:
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The first is an assertion I've heard before, but never heard an explanation for why it would be more confusing and frustrating than someone responding to a monolithic block of text with another monolithic block of text. If you're not trying to follow the conversation, wouldn't you just scroll past in either case? And if you are, isn't it more convenient to have the point each counterpoint is responding to next to the original point, so you don't have to dig through the first block to find said point before finding your spot in the second?
The second is somewhat true, but I'd argue that it's also hard to respond meaningfully to any long post without spaghetti-posting. I mean, unless the whole post can be debunked with just a few sentences that apply equally to the whole thing, but anyone making an argument that long which can be taken down so easily has done something wrong.
I'm not entirely sure why some uses of spaghetti-posting being bad makes all uses of spaghetti-posting bad. I try to split apart individual points as best as possible, and while I'll freely admit I don't always succeed, it seems weird that my successes and failures are painted with the same brush.
So yeah, repeating the same things I've heard before still leaves me equally unenlightened about the problems with spaghetti posting. I still understand that people have problems with spaghetti-posting, but I don't understand why they don't have comparable or greater problems with every alternative I can think of which involves a halfway-decent response.
Karnewarrior
Leastmost of the Hanged Man Arcana
The best option, obviously, is to avoid making long posts, or strategically ignoring points that don't really matter.
In the end it's a rules thing. Even if they're stupid, it's usually smarter just to follow them and bring up your grievances formally with someone in charge. Maybe PM a mod or something?
In the end it's a rules thing. Even if they're stupid, it's usually smarter just to follow them and bring up your grievances formally with someone in charge. Maybe PM a mod or something?
- Location
- St. Petersburg
It's a rule made for the local cesspit - er, Politics forum - where all arguments eventually devolve into an incomprehensible mess. It is healthier for a discussion to address not certain words and phrases taken out of context, but the argument as a whole. That said, when there isn't an argument, the value of enforcing said rule becomes rather negligible, and it is outright waived when one comments on the updates.
I personally believe your use of quotes is mostly fine, since you were responding to five different posts, and it is impossible to comment on that without liberal use of quoting. But this is hardly the place to discuss rules. If you are truly interested whether your post breaks the rules or not, you can always ask one of the mods about it. It's not like they will ban you, and you will know for sure instead of relying on interpretation of the rules from other users.
Aaanyway.
But what I meant was - Reizei and Rakuyama could be interested in the existence of the Foundation in order to avoid it and keep out of their way, but otherwise live normal lives, which would make them unwilling to join SELF... or they could be interested in hanging out with supernaturals without joining a conspiracy that puts them in danger of occasional mindwiping.
An interest in SELF and/or Foundation should not be confused for a desire to join either. Metropolitan Police would be most interested to find out about both, yet I am not certain they would be our allies.
As an aside, due to how the tally program works, your latest vote invalidates all the previous ones. You might want to take that into consideration.
I personally believe your use of quotes is mostly fine, since you were responding to five different posts, and it is impossible to comment on that without liberal use of quoting. But this is hardly the place to discuss rules. If you are truly interested whether your post breaks the rules or not, you can always ask one of the mods about it. It's not like they will ban you, and you will know for sure instead of relying on interpretation of the rules from other users.
Aaanyway.
The SC is 'the Foundation', the Drama guys are 'the Federation'. We better not confuse them, or the intelligence reports are going to be a mess!
But what I meant was - Reizei and Rakuyama could be interested in the existence of the Foundation in order to avoid it and keep out of their way, but otherwise live normal lives, which would make them unwilling to join SELF... or they could be interested in hanging out with supernaturals without joining a conspiracy that puts them in danger of occasional mindwiping.
An interest in SELF and/or Foundation should not be confused for a desire to join either. Metropolitan Police would be most interested to find out about both, yet I am not certain they would be our allies.
As an aside, due to how the tally program works, your latest vote invalidates all the previous ones. You might want to take that into consideration.
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Karnewarrior
Leastmost of the Hanged Man Arcana
I dunno. Unless Mihoku as a whole is pretty socially regressive, I doubt the police are going to have seriously hostile relations with what is for all intents and purposes a civil rights group. We're just the Anomalous equivalent to the NAACP, and thus far we've barely even convened, much less posed any serious threat to the Mihoku citizenry or agitated any people with the legitimate power. When/if we get into fights with the Foundation and start ripping up streets and such with superpowers, that's when we have to worry about people going Incredibles on us and trying to ban Shinohara from existing.
Which is why I would suggest we try to remain peaceable, and at least in the very beginning not to consider the SCP Foundation as "enemies" so much as "potential hostiles". We should be cautious, and not let them know we're looking into them until we're reasonably certain they won't get aggressive about containing the Specially Enabled. Remember that the Foundation also deals in non-sapients, whereas we probably won't even want to contain hostile or evil sapients ourselves; if we determine that the Foundation is willing to tolerate us existing, I would have no problem letting them have most or all of the Anomalous Objects and the 106's of the world. It's definitely possible we'll be working hand-in-hand with them, as long as they're willing to let us move forward with rights issues.
- Location
- US
Yumika's text speak is pretty much exactly what I expected from her. Lots of enthusiasm and emoticons. As for Hana... I dunno. She's certainly a lot more reserved that Yumika, but at the same time I've noticed that ever since we officially became friends with her, shes actually surprisingly relaxed and casual.
I'm pretty sure this refers to the pact that she the has the same hair color and style as RikuRiku. And the same name. And also sings.
On the subject of Ozzetch:
The city where Silas' passport was issued is German for "New Hope". So part of this worlds version of Germany/Europe? speaking of which:
Karnewarrior
Leastmost of the Hanged Man Arcana
She's quiet, yeah. I'd imagine she doesn't normally use txtspeak in every message, but some of the more regular ones have slipped in, like gtg or lol.
You know, just enough that her and Yumika's conversation is utterly illegible to her parents.
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- St. Petersburg
Yeah, but.
What does he make out of it? That RakuRiku is a RikuRiku fangirl? That RakuRiku is RikuRiku's prototype?
I mean, her name was supposedly given to her by her parents, so it must either be a giant coincidence, or she would logically come first.
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- US
Upon rereading the last omake, a couple of things have occured to me.
Firstly, Renji is a blond-haired boy who apparently has a twin sister. It's already pretty obvious that Riku is based on Miku Hatsune. So now I'm wondering, is it possible that Renji and his sister are similarly supposed to be Len and Rin?
Secondly, concerning just what the deal is with Ozzetch:
Okay. I think I get it. Ozzetch isn't a continent. It's a gigantic, mobile, artificial habitat the size of a continent.
Okay then.
Firstly, Renji is a blond-haired boy who apparently has a twin sister. It's already pretty obvious that Riku is based on Miku Hatsune. So now I'm wondering, is it possible that Renji and his sister are similarly supposed to be Len and Rin?
Secondly, concerning just what the deal is with Ozzetch:
No one in Silas's class knows what Ozzetche is. Except for his senseis, of course. It's a rather obscure country, after all, and it only shows up occasionally.
Notice my wording. It's important!
Okay. I think I get it. Ozzetch isn't a continent. It's a gigantic, mobile, artificial habitat the size of a continent.
Okay then.
Karnewarrior
Leastmost of the Hanged Man Arcana
...That makes far too much sense for something so ridiculous.
nkd1325
KNIGHT OF ORANGE
- Location
- AT HIS MAJESTY'S SIDE
That or it exists in some form of anomaly where the land only exists sometimes. We are dealing with a world that has emotion eaters and living anti-memes.
- Location
- St. Petersburg
Yeah, they are vocaloid expies.
I was under the impression that Nanako was the older sister who graduated, but apparently she just changed schools for a more prestigious one, and left the two behind.
Hm. Atlantis?
This world certainly has some pieces of schizo-tech, so I wouldn't be surprised to find out Silas and/or Big Sister may have originated there.
- Location
- Earth
- Pronouns
- He/Him
This is a nice idea, but it doesn't always work out in practice. First off, there's a tendency for people talking in threads where multiple things are being discussed to discuss multiple things; for instance, in this kind of game, we have multiple immediate actions to discuss, various competing long-term plans, people who don't quite understand the lore and/or player terminology (hi!), rules discussions, etc, and that's when everyone's staying on-topic.
Second...if a given point didn't matter, most people wouldn't make it in the first place. That's the thing—in a well-constructed argument, there are no points you can just ignore. There are very few people in this forum who write entire paragraphs that I can effectively counter with a sentence or two. (A mixed blessing; while that would be a time-saver, it would probably be a boring discussion.)
Too late, I'm already confused.
[X] [Event] Acquiesce to Yumika.
-[X] We're planning to introduce the other two to the Foundation, right?
[X] [AS] (Event) Visit the Hypermall with friends to celebrate RikuRiku.
[X] Tale of Merika (???)
[X] [-] Keep trying to contact Maeda.
This seems like it'd be a big help for the GM, especially in this kind of game, but it's tricky to get used to.
Or possibly Tatooine?
Karnewarrior
Leastmost of the Hanged Man Arcana
I wouldn't mention the Foundation outright, or anyone connected to them. That seems like something it would be easy for the Computer Club to put a filter up for, so that they don't have to have a human sift through millions of texts from all over all the time. Instead, they only have to sift through the ones that say things like "Foundation", "SCP", or names like "Maeda" or "Ichiro".
Kind of like how the NSA isn't really tuning into your phone call until you say a trigger word that wakes up a bot to record it, like "Bomb" or such.
Kind of like how the NSA isn't really tuning into your phone call until you say a trigger word that wakes up a bot to record it, like "Bomb" or such.
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- Earth
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Fine, I'll clarify.
[X] [Event] Acquiesce to Yumika.
-[X] We're planning to introduce the other two to the Foundation once we get to the mall, right?
[X] [AS] (Event) Visit the Hypermall with friends to celebrate RikuRiku.
[X] Tale of Merika (???)
[X] [-] Keep trying to contact Maeda.
[X] [Event] Acquiesce to Yumika.
-[X] We're planning to introduce the other two to the Foundation once we get to the mall, right?
[X] [AS] (Event) Visit the Hypermall with friends to celebrate RikuRiku.
[X] Tale of Merika (???)
[X] [-] Keep trying to contact Maeda.
Karnewarrior
Leastmost of the Hanged Man Arcana
I meant by sending it over text message, to Yumika herself. Using the term "foundation" like that could give us away if they're using computers to wiretap at all.
The current vote uses Mystery instead because it's A) less likely to get caught in such a net, B) somewhat unclear without knowing the reference anyway (is it the Foundation? Just a random SCP? A missing bookbag? It'd take extra work to know.), and C) passes the information to Yumika succinctly and clearly while meeting the above criteria.
The current vote uses Mystery instead because it's A) less likely to get caught in such a net, B) somewhat unclear without knowing the reference anyway (is it the Foundation? Just a random SCP? A missing bookbag? It'd take extra work to know.), and C) passes the information to Yumika succinctly and clearly while meeting the above criteria.
- Location
- St. Petersburg
D) a cool word that lets Silas cosplay as the Master Spy who uses codewords and is all mysterious-like.
Let's be honest here, it's the main reason.