YCLoveMaker Hotel: We Love You All to Death~!

[Jake the Sage]

There . . . could have been people. Honestly I misread what you said but that is over with.

 

Thar, since I hadn't answered you yet, if I do make a Facebook page I don't know if I'll put it in my signature or not

[CinnamonStar]

You draw too? How good are you?

 

My brother wanted me to e-mail him a bunch of my "comics" so he could so them off to his army buddies and apparently all of them liked it and wanted more. When i told him I wasn't going to e-mail him anymore he suggested I make a website or a Facebook page about them. I'm actually considering putting up a Facebook page.

What do you guys think?

 

On a side note, we had a new member in my college club. Him and I ended up dueling with LARP swords and kept hitting in the same freaking place (B |) So now my leg is sore . . .

 

As good as other people will find me to be?

 

I almost stopped drawing and writing completely though and personally, I don't think I have ever been good. I have a music instruments background, yes, but never been trained properly for other things.=S

 

And the comic was good.

Make a tumblr for them or a Facebook page if you're not worried about anonymity.

[Lt. Colonel Remo]

Not good at drawing at all

 

Which is kind of annoying since my friends are really good at drawing anime ;_;

 

We need to make an 8-bit version of DEF one day. Seriously, we have the skill here and probably the tech too. I'm sure Atman can remake his music to fit as well.

[Spirit of DMG]

Wish I could practice my marksmanship, but my parents hate guns. I had to use all my persuasion skills to get a water gun for summer camp one year >_>

*Face/Desk*

That... I don't even know what to say to that.

 

Now, as for the 8-Bit DEF... Might could. Probably be interesting.

[Lt. Colonel Remo]

I'm actually signed up for an archery class soon =/ 

 

But yeah other than that I can relate with Fuse. My parents also hated anything resembling a gun ;_; BB guns and paintball guns were some sort of a forbidden fruit in our household

[Jake the Sage]

Wish I could practice my marksmanship, but my parents hate guns. I had to use all my persuasion skills to get a water gun for summer camp one year >_>

 

Wait wait wait . . . wait. Please tell me you're kidding man! Honestly? I don't see how that can be taken seriously

*reads Remo's post*

Well holy sh*t. There are people out there who dislike guns enough that they don't even permit water guns. My parents never bothered with it and in fact I always, and still do, get at least one knife for Christmas.

 

Hell! When I threatened to shoot someone at school, one of my more brilliantly dumb moments, when Mom got called in the only thing she said as, "Shoot? You sure he said shoot? Yeah . . . if he didn't say stab there isn't a problem, we don't have anything more than BB Guns."

 

Paraphrased of course, but you get the gist.

 

We need to make an 8-bit version of DEF one day. Seriously, we have the skill here and probably the tech too. I'm sure Atman can remake his music to fit as well.

 

I'll agree with that! Though to be honest how would to differentiate between certain characters if they look similar?

 

As good as other people will find me to be?

 

I almost stopped drawing and writing completely though and personally, I don't think I have ever been good. I have a music instruments background, yes, but never been trained properly for other things.=S

 

And the comic was good.

Make a tumblr for them or a Facebook page if you're not worried about anonymity.

 

Yeah Cinnamon here's the thing, my brother and his friends already know me. I am kind of big on the whole anonymity thing while on the net. Ask Shadow Zero. He is one of the few people here who've actually heard what I sound like- a number I can count on one hand and the number of people who've seen my is . . . well . . . one. Though I believe I'd still make the Facebook page just because it's easier.

Also, you draw? Let me see.

[Lt. Colonel Remo]

I'll agree with that! Though to be honest how would to differentiate between certain characters if they look similar?

Different leitmotifs and character themes for when they show up, different colored text/script style text that states the characters name as they speak

 

As for random Inactive/club members, you could just keep some sort of generic sprite that you would edit to fit each group

 

=/ I really don't see that as a problem as most games already incorporate everything I've mentioned.  

[The Warden]

My dad... he's very fond of guns, being a man of westerns and war movies. Kinda sad, but there you go. About a decade ago now, he used to take me and my sister out to this secluded area outside of the community in which I lived so we could shoot at targets. My favourite was Mr. Rockface, a rock with a face drawn on. It was fun, watching them explode.

[Thar]

The only shooting I've ever done is NERF guns, paintball, Airsoft, and a composite bow that is now stowed away in my closet. I have a target, but it changed color from being outside during the last major storm...

 

As in, it used to be yellow. Now it's blue. It's so strange.

 

I'm mad, too, cause my dad said he'd take me out bow hunting like 3 years ago. We still haven't done that.

[Spirit of DMG]

Biggest thing I've shot so far has been... a .50 cal. Me and about a hundred of the people I was hanging out with at the time went down to a range and a group of about nine people let us shoot a couple of the big guns. the 240B and .50 Cal. 

I think those guys shop at the same store. They were all wearing campaign hats.

[Fusion X. Denver]

I think they did that just to ingrain the idea that guns were bad back when I was a kid. My parents have lightened up on that and other issues as I got older when they realized I usually adopt a mature perspective concerning those matters (believe it or not).

[spoiler=However, I don't blame them for being so anti-gun]

When my dad was 9, he had a thing for pellet guns and one day, he shot a squirrel out of a tree. He was really happy about landing the kill, but when he went up to the squirrel and saw it there bleeding to death, he felt so terrible that he never touched a gun again.

 

As for my mom, she had a friend in college who accidentally pissed someone off on the highway. So when they both pulled over, the guy shot him and he died.

 

Sure, guns aren't exactly the main issue and it's the people that kill, not guns, but I don't blame my parents for feeling the way they do either.

[/spoiler]

 

As for me, the latest I've done was in paintballing and that was pretty fun.

 

8-bit DEF could be lulzy. Shame I have no artistic skills whatsoever :/

[Desu the Blue Nerd]

Well you guys should no my reply to anything involving artsy stuff by now. No, not the one about my disinterest in it. The other oner. The Kaka one.

[Jake the Sage]

Okay well since it appears that the topic of artwork is done and over with I suppose I'll state what happened today in one of my classes. We went over the rise of Christianity. Yes, that's right, we talked about religion. And since you can't bring up religion and politics without a discussion breaking out we spent most of the class time in a debate over the Christian Bible in contrast with the individual sects within Christianity and other religions like Islam and Judaism.

 

So I thought it would be a good idea if people can be mature, if we have a discussion on religion here WITHOUT it becoming a massive pointless argument.

 

I am being surprisingly optimistic about this (>3>)

 

Ready? GO!

[Spirit of DMG]

-.-; Here's the rise of Christianity in a nutshell

[spoiler=It all started with Rome.]

The Emperor Constantine used the Symbol of the Cross on his shields in a decisive battle. After that, he genuinely believed that the Judeo-Christian God was on his side in that battle, and willingly converted. After his rise to power, he gathered a council to put together several of the books that worked well together that existed within Christianity of the time. Once this was done, any books not included what Constantine named "The Bible" were ordered destroyed, and anyone in Rome who was not Christian was given the choice to convert or be killed. After that, the Crusades spread the beliefs to most of Europe, and parts of elsewhere. The End.[/spoiler]

 

Fusion, I understand your parents logic. However, I have to say your father has a better argument than your mother. Honestly, your father held himself responsible for the squirrel. I respect that. Your mother, however, seems to hold the gun responsible, rather than the idiot who probably had an illegal and unregistered gun.

Honestly, let me ask you this: If Guns kill people, why do AK's and M-4's not get 30 years in jail?

[Desu the Blue Nerd]

No, Jake. We really aren't. We're pretty much a bunch of overly biased douchebags who lack the ability to properly rationalize or to even take into account any argument or emotion that doesn't already match our narrow and fairly cynical ideals. Except Broken would probably at least be funny while still backing himself up very well. And Denver. Denver's cool. Denver doesn't do stupid shit. Okay, so it's mostly you.

 

Fusion, I understand your parents logic. However, I have to say your father has a better argument than your mother. Honestly, your father held himself responsible for the squirrel. I respect that. Your mother, however, seems to hold the gun responsible, rather than the idiot who probably had an illegal and unregistered gun.

Honestly, let me ask you this: If Guns kill people, why do AK's and M-4's not get 30 years in jail?

 

Don't be a dumbass and warp the meaning of the phrase, "Guns kill people," by asking an even more dumbass question even though it's not a phrase I've ever actually heard anybody say. Guns are an easy tool to use that's only actual purpose is to kill unless you think replying with using it as a signal is legitimatelly a good argument. Whether it's used in self defense or just plain murder it does a damn fine job at it. It's not a tool to help build a house or cook food. People use them to kill. Yeah, people kill people. I caught that. Thanks, Captain Obvious. I don't think anybody's in denial of that. Even if guns were completely restricted will people still kill people? Again, duh. They do it now. I just imagine it harder to kill a bunch of random school children or people in a movie theatre with a knife. It's not just about the person who committed a crime but how they did it that also matters.

[The Warden]

Religion is a poorly conceived subject as it basically boils down to people shouting very loudly whilst sticking their fingers in their ears.

[Mugendramon]

Fusion, I understand your parents logic. However, I have to say your father has a better argument than your mother. Honestly, your father held himself responsible for the squirrel. I respect that. Your mother, however, seems to hold the gun responsible, rather than the idiot who probably had an illegal and unregistered gun.

Honestly, let me ask you this: If Guns kill people, why do AK's and M-4's not get 30 years in jail?

 

It's just as Desu said. A tool with no practical use but to kill. Or maybe injure, but that's not any more humane. But if you're not very fond of using a tool meant solely for that, it's a perfectly reasonable answer. There are other methods of self defense which are much less unethical anyway.

 

And putting a tool behind the bars is the best idea I've read in a while. Let's start a petition, I'm sure enough people will sign it in a few days.

[Thar]

Religion is a poorly conceived subject as it basically boils down to people shouting very loudly whilst sticking their fingers in their ears.

 

This basically summed it all up. Nothing much else to discuss that isn't a personal opinion.

Now all we have to do is wait for C4 to stop by, see this discussion (if you can consider it that), and explode as his name implies.

 

Regarding guns... I have a feeling that it compares to religion as far as a political argument. "Rights to bear arms" has been a heated debate for a good while, and like Broken said, it all comes down to both liberals and conservatives shouting back and forth subjectively what's moral and what's fair.

 

And if I have to bring up Jon Lajoie on the subject of "guns don't kill people", then I probably still won't, cause no one really talks about him anymore to care.

[The Warden]

Guns are only ever as safe as the person carrying them, that's the fact. Gun control and such can be considered utterly meaningless since most people will break the law anyways. Let's not forget The Dark Knight Shootings of yesteryear, or the usual school shoot-ups.

 

I'm crass in the manner, but that's how it is. Enforce a law and most people will break it anyways, which brings up many questions yes, but the only answer readily available is 'The government is trying', and isn't that just adorable?

[Thar]

since most people will break the law anyways.

 

My thoughts exactly. It's been made perfectly clear that no matter how much the government cracks down, people find ways to avoid them. It's also been made clear that when a group of lawbreakers are caught and punished, people consider it unfair according to their views on the matter and they commit the same acts of rebellion just to make a point, perhaps even make public and catch the attention of the world for better or for worse. All the same, there's bound to be a controversial subject on whatever is enforced in this country, be in just or unjust. There's really nothing we can do but watch everything flesh itself out.

[Fusion X. Denver]

My mom's a pretty reasonable person and though I never really pressed her about it, I'm sure she recognizes the logic that it was the crazy guy that killed her friend and not guns overall, but like everyone here's pretty much said, its only real purpose is to exterminate life and I'm thinking that's her standpoint as well.

If this were a perfect world and if this were even remotely possible, I'd say make a device that nullifies every single gun in the country and then ensure that only our armed forces and shooting ranges could hold guns. 

 

But since that isn't the case, I'm actually still unsure on my exact stance on the issue. I would want to say abolish gun-purchasing and only make them available at shooting ranges for recreational use (and I guess hunting reserves, but I detest the idea of it unless they make use of the meat), but the fact of the matter is people are always going to be able to get guns somehow, just like with drugs, alcohol (for those underage), and whatever else. Plus, in places like Atlanta, Georgia (or somewhere in that state), you are apparently required to own a gun because it is just that unsafe in the neighborhood.

 

What I DO think we should do is make it much much harder to go out and buy a gun. For example, I think if one wants a gun, everyone else that he or she lives with should be tested and checked out as well. The Newtown shooter stole his mom's gun; if the screening process checked him out too, maybe they would have noticed something was off and prevented the mom from buying it.

And the difficult process will stave off any people who decide to buy it on a whim or for the heck of it, ensuring only that people who really want to own a gun can get it.

[Jake the Sage]

What I DO think we should do is make it much much harder to go out and buy a gun. For example, I think if one wants a gun, everyone else that he or she lives with should be tested and checked out as well. The Newtown shooter stole his mom's gun; if the screening process checked him out too, maybe they would have noticed something was off and prevented the mom from buying it.

And the difficult process will stave off any people who decide to buy it on a whim or for the heck of it, ensuring only that people who really want to own a gun can get it.

 

Well in honesty Fusion that will be declared "unfair" to the person buying the gun because it is not them, the ones who are buying said weapon, that are the problem. However that can be easily stopped if you change how people put their guns away. Simply put, if you keep it locked away with only reasonable people knowing where the key is then it would not cause a problem.

 

Besides that I can agree with Broken with his opinions on religion and gun control

[Desu the Blue Nerd]

You wouldn't think your own son to be a reasonable person? Look Lora in the eye and tell her you don't trust her.

[Jake the Sage]

That can be said easily DF, I don't trust any of my family. But people can generally tell when someone is about to go off the deep end- even if it isn't the actual family member.

[Fusion X. Denver]

Well in honesty Fusion that will be declared "unfair" to the person buying the gun because it is not them, the ones who are buying said weapon, that are the problem. However that can be easily stopped if you change how people put their guns away. Simply put, if you keep it locked away with only reasonable people knowing where the key is then it would not cause a problem.

 

Besides that I can agree with Broken with his opinions on religion and gun control

I honestly disagree, if I wanted to go buy a gun and my mom felt really uncomfortable with having one in the house, then I shouldn't get it.

It's like getting a dog; having one in the house is a big responsibility that affects everyone and it'll work out best if everyone's all for it. If they're not, then it becomes a major imposition into their daily lifestyle.

My sister wanted a dog, but my mom didn't want to take care of a pet (not to mention she would be in college two years later). Sure my sister could have seen it as unfair, but in reality she was imposing a responsibility on the rest of the family that we didn't really want to deal with.