FormCritic wrote:
No...you've heard a lot of stuff about the kind of people who can be attracted to the Vampire RPG.  These people would be doing something wierd with or without the game.

Mark  

Just gives them more motivation I sappose.

I don't have any thing to back it up, just off of memory but the case I'm talking about involved two males between 17-19 and one female that was 14 and they had talked her into killing her parents and all I remember was it had something to do with a vampire rpg.

Winterwords wrote:Here it is

http://www-gatago.com/alt/religion/wicca/21919920.html

Anyone want to LARP?  

Winterwords wrote:Here it is

http://www-gatago.com/alt/religion/wicca/21919920.html

I stopped reading partway through.  I'd heard enough.

To list a few of the words used in the article:

satanic rituals
introduced to the occult
human sacrifice
at a young age
alcohol
use drugs
skip school
soliciting a minor

I could go on but that's enough...

My point is that all of those things were permitted or even practiced and condoned by the muderer's parents and the adults around him.  

All of them were completely outside the context of Vampire the Masquerade.  

The connection with Vampire casual...that is, the game was only a part of the interests and activities of the offender...rather than causal.

I also suspect mental and emotional problems as well as academic and interpersonal problems that were not mentioned in the article.

This is a story about what a disturbed, betrayed and evil person does when his parents are too busy with their own addictions and problems.  It has very little to do with Vampire.

The Vampire RPG was only the sexiest and strangest detail about the actions of this group of people.  One could probably build a casual connection between lots of these people's other group preferences and behaviors, such as where they ate, what music they listened to, video games, movies, television, clothing outlet stores, shoe sizes, cosmetics and whether or not they liked Coke or Pepsi.

"Chad was abandoned by his father, who introduced him to Pepsi at a young age.  He witnessed Pepsi drinking episodes beginning at the age of eight.  By the time he was 12, Chad had a Pepsi drinking habit of his own..."

Mark  

gyg wrote:I prefer coke - & I don't like 'Vampire' type games - must be a connection - spooky

wierd!

back in the day, i never felt like doing anything strange like that.

must all be in the mind. i guess i wasnt "into it" enough

Al

Remember, this was the same Geraldo who opened "Al Capone's Vault" . . . and found almost nothing (despite the hype!) in it.      
Need more be said?

obiter wrote:what a game of cricket ......

nail biting stuff but Ireland salvage a remarkable tie as Zimbabwe throw it all away in the final 6 overs .....

roll on Pakistan on St Patrick's day,  and of course there's the small matter of a wee game in Rome

oh my aching liver

hey bzr

i sat and watched that game - one of the most entertaining games i have seen in ages. i think the irish thoroughly deserved it and fwiw, i thought they deserved the win. i sometimes wish that the more illustrous teams, such as england, would play with the same spirit. very heartening to watch and i hope they go on to play like that against the other teams.

you can see though, why south africa had so many problems with them. they just wouldnt give up!

another huge plus factor for me, was their fans in the crowd - what a joy to watch - looked like they partied from start to finish and that was fab!

Al

gyg wrote:Just a nonsense post really, to while away the hours!

I had a real 'D&D' moment earlier today. Playing in the garden with my youngest (2 1/2) I suffered several powerful blows to the legs from a plastic Lego Bionicle sword. I had been trying to parry the little heathens blows (in a nonchalant manner of course) but she landed quite a few , before we were both told off by the wife and mother!!

Which brings me. laboriously, to my point - after the fracas I couldn't help but think - 'now I know why short races like dwarves get bonuses to hit giant size creatures' - Perhaps I have D&D on the mind a little too much (and should spend more time practicing my swordsmanship)  

Like I say - a slow day - sorry

For my son's sixth birthday, it seemed like a good idea to buy plastic swords for all seven boys at his sleep-over party.  The swords were actually pretty nice...hollow...about 2.5 feet long.   Even my daughter (who was three) had her own sword and had a blast pretending to fence.

So...it seemed like a good idea to leap out from behind a door, holding a cardboard packing paper roll as my own sword.  The kids squealed and had a great time ganging up on me to fence with me.

So...I pretended to get stabbed and fell on my face on the couch.....

....and then all eight kids proceeded to finish me off by pummeling me with repeated plastic sword deathblows, swung with all their little might.

....and I resolved that the next time I got killed I would try to fall in some place where the little guys couldn't reach me.   

Mark  

Okay, this one is not for the humor-impaired or those who take everything they see on the interwebs a little too seriously. And I'll add that this link might be mildly non-worksafe; it will all depend on how ridiculously PC your workplace is.

Now, with that out of the way, prepare to laugh ...

Rufus and Burne "win" an award:

Click link for funny stuff

Good stuff. I just checked it again (to make sure the link was working), and I started laughing all over again.