Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Umbran]

A few years back, I played in a live-action game set in cyberpunk, virtual reality setting.

My wife got to play a badass mercenary captain, who, unknown to everyone, was actually cybernetically enhanced and uplifted dog, who escaped from a lab with her entire pack.

I played the god Marduk, reborn into cyberspace.

It was a weird game.

 

[Scribe]

 

[Umbran]

2. It's weird how you perfectly understand the knee-jerk reaction of defending something when a thing you like is attacked, but are also somehow utterly mystified by the knee-jerk reaction of others when they are defending something you've attacked.

It is not weird when you recognize that humans are not so bright as to have divested themselves of the burdens and biases of their own biology.

Neurologically, humans judge the actions of others with a different region of the brain than they judge their own actions. Different neurons. And, while we can butt those judgements next to each other, and compare them for consistency, we usually don't. Especially when the difference can be used to fuel the release of the sweet, sweet dopamine of righteous indignation.

In short - humans are are, by our construction, slightly hypocritical unless we do work to avoid being so.

 

[Ryujin]

A few years back, I played in a live-action game set in cyberpunk, virtual reality setting.

My wife got to play a badass mercenary captain, who, unknown to everyone, was actually cybernetically enhanced and uplifted dog, who escaped from a lab with her entire pack.

I played the god Marduk, reborn into cyberspace.

It was a weird game.

We had a pretty weird one too. The GM wanted a Cyberpunk horror game and he wanted us to role play randomly generated backgrounds, to the best of our abilities. I ended up as a heavily cybered Fixer who had the delusion that he was an avatar of God. That would be strange enough but, despite me being famous for my insanely crappy dice rolling, my rolls in this game supported the delusion. Oh, look. A Vampire! Everyone make your rolls to save against horror. Me: Yawn. "A servant of the Evil One. <sarcasm> Oh, my. What shall we do? </sarcasm>"

 

[RealAlHazred]

I’m moderately curious about the venue for kids birthday parties where the birthday girl gets a free fedora….

It's a local chain called Havana Central, with Cuban food. It was a great place attached to the Menlo Park Mall, and they had a curved room that was glass-enclosed on three sides along the outside of it, which they could put up partitions in and rented for parties. The food was excellent -- literally every dish I tried was great. Fairly reasonable in price, and they gave my daughter the fedora because, even at 1 year old, she was ridiculously cute.

Sadly, they closed that location within three months of the birthday party. It looks like they're down to two locations: Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, Long Island; and Times Square. Makes me sad, because I didn't get a chance to try the whole menu!

Cuban Restaurant in NYC & Long Island - Havana Central

Havana Central. Cuban food, happy hour, live music, and special events at your local Cuban restaurant & rum bar in New York City & Long Island

www.havanacentral.com

 

[RealAlHazred]

Salvo E. Scamorza.

Fredo E. Formaggio

Carlos Queso

 

[Mad_Jack]

I played the god Marduk, reborn into cyberspace.

It's too bad you weren't playing Marmaduke - You could have yelled, "I am DOG here!"....

 

[trappedslider]

I'm watching B5 and I realized something. Unlike other shows where I can multi-task,B5 just draws me into not wanting to miss something.

 

[Autumnal]

It’s really, really good for that.

 

[overgeeked]

Not here.

Wow. I can’t even.

So your primary means of handling things is simply delete it and pretend it never happened…and yet you’re complaining about someone else deleting things and pretending they didn’t happen.