Next thought from my head

Ok here's the deal. I post a thought all of you. ALL of you make a response. Just like I detailed in ...

The Initial Proposal

So now I figure which ponderings you and I shall write about. Ah here!

What does your musical playlist say about you?

There.. go forth Write!

The Four Gamers of the Apocalypse

Late yes I know.. work has been draining and my brain just could not focus on this but I think I've managed to get this one worked out and an idea has sprung.

The four gamer types of a Game's Apocalypse

Behold the four Gamer/horsemen that all GM's fear and do much facplanting when such a tool is discovered in thier well crafted story.

The first is an insidious creature... While often very useful in most situations if it is not carefully monitored it cvan completey destroy a play ennvirornment. It is the MacGuyver Playertype. For every situation there is a solution that can be cobbled together from bits and pieces of anything he may find. It is the danger of a slow powercreep where a GM may suddenly find he is no longer controlling the world... the world is reacting to the player.

The second is the Rules Lawyer. Any note and errata ever made is memorized and kept on file to use against the GM when he desires. His piles of books are only there to support his rigid desire for a perfectly controlled situation where he may exploit or defend his position in the game.

The third is the Min/Maxer also known as Das Munchkin. This gamer builds his character thinking in terms of numbers. It's like the matrix. It's not a person its a line of code that he manipulates so that it does something fantastically. Usually this is combat... other times manipulation of other people. Either way this single minded focus on one thing creates an imbalanced character and ruins play experience for others.

The last and possibly the most frustrating of Gamer types is the UBER. He's a combo of all the rest using rules, minmaxing techniques, and quite often simple pulling of items/skills/abilties out of ass-space. There is nothing in your campaign that can combat him.. and creating such a thing would ultimately destroy the rest of the party/players. They leech fun from the game which is a self-masturbatory act for them. It's all about them and thier fun. These people should be shot. except they're so bad-ass they'll just dodge it Neo-style.

Sorry for the delay.. we now put you back to your regularly scheduled blog.

Neji's Response!

New Topic.. yadda yadda


ummm yeah tired brain no-worky so topic.. ummm random yeah lesse..

The new Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Ok its kooky but here's a sample. The four whiney horseman.

Punk , Goth, Emo, Bishi!

blame the GG chat room

Venting about a broken system

Ok folks. If you don't want to read a rather vehement rant concerning retail, its customers, and those people that run such businesses. Just move one.... Do not pas go. Do not collect $200.

Ok let's start at the base
Customers
Ok this may or not apply to you, dear reader. You are not the only person in the store. I don't mind helping you and explaining things, but when I take you to an item and explain some of the item's feature's and you just stand there staring... What am I supposed to do? Walking away would be rude. Some form of acknowledgement would be very nice. This is the least of my quibbles really. I've been in retail for some time and I've developed a few major peeves concerning my work. Let us review.

1) If you pick something up. PUT IT BACK WHERE YOU FOUND IT.

2) I understand your need to physically hold the item you want (regardless of the PICTURE of said item on the front) But if you open the box PAY ATTENTION to how the item came out so that when you decide to put it back in the box, you do so correctly.
-- Addendum! If you do open a box and make a purchase of that item. TAKE THE GODDAMN BOX YOU OPENED AND DON'T LEAVE ALL THE CRAP ALL OVER MY STORE.

3) Talking is nice. I enjoy having conversations. But I don't need to hear your daughter/son/nephew/neighbor's ex-wife's life story as a background for why you need to buy a certain thing. It really isn't necessary.

4) Asking me if I have a certain item. When I reply politely that we don't carry that item. Rephrasing your question and adding in more descriptions will not change my answer. Unless you just really suck at describing it the first time. Think about that for a bit.. mmkay?

5) Shopping by phone is the most annoying thing in the world. I am not your personal shoppper and I will not go around picking all your merchandise out so you can just walk in and pick it up. Don't be lazy and get your ass up and into the store and shop like the rest of the idiots.

6) My store's return policies are clearly posted. If you don't have a reciept you deal with the consequences. As is our return policy is fricking too lenient. If you lose your reciept or wait too long you will NOT get cash back I don't care if you used a creditcard/check and can show the cancelled check or credit card bill. IT MATTERS NOT! We need the reciept to refund your damn money.

And this went on longer than I thought So I'm gonna quit now and save discussion of the work envirornment and company policies for another rant.

New topic- Oppurtunity to Rant

ok ok here we go again. there haven't been any new takers in my expiriment as of late ;_;
but I'll keep posting this just in case. If you're new.

Clickie!

Retail... a worker's view!

Ok people let er rip!

River running round and 'round.

WHOOPS!

Seems I lost track of things and forgot my own homework assignment. Well I'm here now to make up for it. The river runs... where does it go.. down and around so nobody knows. Yeah is lame but my mind produces random thoughts and twists that desire.. no DEMAND to be written. And who am I to disobey my Muse. So I find my thoughts flowling free like an undammed river. Swift and capricious at times. Shallow in the beginning only to become wide and deep when you reach the end of it. My free range thougts are often fairly amusing and quite silly... My job affords me plenty of time to simply meander and wander about finding bits of strange humor or into darker broody type thoughts.

And then they think of things that makes me seriously ponder my sanity. though that's less actual thoughts and just random little things I'll do while sitting alone at home. I think I have issues. So I sit and my brain flows away and I sit and go... "ye know that was pretty messed up. I'd but a Pysch doctor would love my head." But that's not gonna happen and I feel just fine without mental prodding.

So what -would- happen if my mind's river were Dammed up and not free flowing. Ok visualise. All those thoughts filling a deep pool behind this giant construction built to keep things there and only let a little out at a time. those thoughts mixing in with other thoughts. Swirling dancing and just.. being constrained and kept together. Would they mutate into new things? good bad evil or simply strange. I really don't know. but hey. That's a the thought of the day!

One other stab at the topic.

Neji's - A River Runs Through it