Avatar Battle Royale Discussion Thread XXIV: What is this "Haste" you speak of?

[Lemming]

My post. When I tried to post, my computer wouldn't allow it. It was a huge and annoying problem a little while ago.

Okay!
I thought you were having a breakdown or something.
Can't let the cool old guy turn into a crazy old guy.

[CrimsonAngel]

Okay!
I thought you were having a breakdown or something.
Can't let the cool old guy turn into a crazy old guy.

We all go crazy eventualy, silly talking lemming.

[Mina Kobold]

We all go crazy eventualy, silly talking lemming.

Or be crazy already, or die before becoming crazy (by the way weren't Q cured of Schizophrenia or something? then he has already been crazy)

[Green-Shirt Q]

We all go crazy eventualy, silly talking lemming.

Feeling philosophic today, Crimson?

I would have to disagree with you.

Or be crazy already, or die before becoming crazy (by the way weren't Q cured of Schizophrenia or something? then he has already been crazy)

Yup. I was Schizophrenic, but then was cured after a couple of months.

[Squark]

Wait, there's a cure for schizophrenia?


I did not know that.


Medicines to remove most of the symptoms, yes, but a cure?

Wow. Modern Medicine is amazing.


Also, who here plays Magic: The Gathering? The final FI NPC besides James and Talia I'm going to focus on is Avbaroy's first Planeswalker

[BRC]

Wait, there's a cure for schizophrenia?


I did not know that.


Medicines to remove most of the symptoms, yes, but a cure?

Wow. Modern Medicine is amazing.


Also, who here plays Magic: The Gathering? The final FI NPC besides James and Talia I'm going to focus on is Avbaroy's first Planeswalker

Depending on how we are defining the MTG version of "Planes", it could be that any wizard capable of casting "Plane Shift" is a Planeswalker. Otherwise, it could be that any D-Jumper is a "Planeswalker"

[Green-Shirt Q]

Wait, there's a cure for schizophrenia?


I did not know that.


Medicines to remove most of the symptoms, yes, but a cure?

Wow. Modern Medicine is amazing.

No. With therapy. I was talked out of my mental illness. Although some drugs were used while I was in the hospital.

[Mina Kobold]

No. With therapy. I was talked out of my mental illness. Although some drugs were used while I was in the hospital.

It was also during the war if I'm not mistaken (I bet that doesn't count as modern medicine)

[The Gremlin]

I'm awake! I'm awake! Wha--?
About dying: I think the PM system should be optional. If somebody PMs you asking you not to kill/maim their character you oblige. Otherwise, you can have fun with your own plans. If somebody does something suicidal, not much can save them. Unless they say that they're gonna make another comic, that should buy them some time. But if they don't use that time to use a teleport scroll, den dey're dead!

[Squark]

Err... As in MTG-style spells, and...


ummm...

I haven't read any of the novels- How DO planes walkers travel from place to place

[BRC]

Err... As in MTG-style spells, and...


ummm...

I haven't read any of the novels- How DO planes walkers travel from place to place

It's an inherent ability. Like being a Sorceror in DnD Fluff. You can travel from plane to plane more or less at will, and you get unbelievable magical power.

Well, that's not quite true. You have to have the "Spark" of planeswalkerness, and then you have to die in a manner that completely obliterates your body.

[CrimsonAngel]

Wait, there's a cure for schizophrenia?


I did not know that.


Medicines to remove most of the symptoms, yes, but a cure?

Wow. Modern Medicine is amazing.


Also, who here plays Magic: The Gathering? The final FI NPC besides James and Talia I'm going to focus on is Avbaroy's first Planeswalker

What is schizophrenia?

[Squark]

For the record, the Planeswalker I have in mind has very little real control over his powers, and they frequently go off on impulse (stuff like rampant growth suddenly reforesting a bombed out park, and the like).

Sort of like what teenage Sorcerers go through, actually.

EDIT: Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that causes hallucination and paranoia

[Mina Kobold]

EDIT: Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that causes hallucination and paranoia

It was previously called personality split because those who had the illness acted like they where several persons (they didn't have several personalities but it's the closest explanation I know)

[Squark]

It was previously called personality split because those who had the illness acted like they where several persons (they didn't have several personalities but it's the closest explanation I know)

Here is a (relatively) simple explanation of what Schizophrenia is.

[BRC]

It was previously called personality split because those who had the illness acted like they where several persons (they didn't have several personalities but it's the closest explanation I know)

A common misconception. "Split Personality Disorder", is actually called "Dissociative Identity Disorder". Some People think it dosn't exist, and that people who are diagnosed with it are faking. Schizophrenia is entierly about hallucinations.
Go Go 5 on the AP Psych Exam!

[Mina Kobold]

Here is a (relatively) simple explanation of what Schizophrenia is.

I was just about to mention that movie, funny coincidence.

But he was seriously unlucky, he still lives and it hasn't disappeared yet

[Squark]

Wow. We get sidetracked really easily.

[Mina Kobold]

A common misconception. "Split Personality Disorder", is actually called "Dissociative Identity Disorder". Some People think it dosn't exist, and that people who are diagnosed with it are faking. Schizophrenia is entierly about hallucinations.
Go Go 5 on the AP Psych Exam!

Well I remember being told that personality splitting (well the Danish words for that) was a common name for Schizophrenia, I think I'll look it up on the Danish Wikipedia.

Also actually having a split personality isn't possible or at least not what that disorder does, it was believed to do but while it does look like it it doesn't (I can't remember what it does maybe you know)

@Squark: If we didn't then this would be boring

EDIT:
Here's what I found
"Personality splitting is used in psychiatry in two contexts. partly there is the schizophrenic (and relatively common) personality splitting where it for example are the thoughts there are split, partly on dissociative (and extremely rare) personality splitting where the person has multiple personalities, which often do not know each other and live their own lives
"
It seems I was a bit right at least (it's probably a language thing)

[Green-Shirt Q]

I once knew a guy who had a split personality disorder. Or maybe it was two guys. Whatever.

But in all seriousness, I think split personality disorder is a type of Schizophrenia, but Schizophrenics aren't nessesarily personality spilted.

I couldn't say, though.

[Fay Graydon]

*thinks* ya know... I recon if you did have Schizophrenia at like... 80(million) then you would have had treatment earlier...

I have a fractured personality... I sometimes black out and apparently do things and act in a way normally... but i have no recollection of those times...
*shrugs* S**t happens i guess.

[Green-Shirt Q]

*thinks* ya know... I recon if you did have Schizophrenia at like... 80(million) then you would have had treatment earlier...

I was diagnosed and institutionalized at age 20. Which was embarrassing, since I was doing a pretty good job staying out of the war till then. Luckily, I was deemed too insane to fight, believe it or not.

[Mina Kobold]

I was diagnosed and institutionalized at age 20. Which was embarrassing, since I was doing a pretty good job staying out of the war till then. Luckily, I was deemed too insane to fight, believe it or not.

Good luck in bad luck I guess (I don't know the English equivalent of this saying, sorry) I would probably have either died in the start of the war or been hiding from the Germans in Sweden, if the rules of war service was the same then it would have been the later no matter what (I'm not allowed to enter the army by the current rules)

[Fay Graydon]

I would have had similar treatment to C.A. and have become Major Brittan!
Would have kicked Nazi butt =3

[Mad Mask]

Q, you say you are 83 ? That means you were born in 1926, and were 13 at the start of the war and 19 at the end. If you were institutionalized at 20, that means that it happened after World War II.

Fun Fact: Conscription in Canada was done in a single levy in 1944, meaning you didn't really have the time to do "a pretty good job of staying out of the war".

Are you really 83 years old ?

[Mina Kobold]

Q, you say you are 83 ? That means you were born in 1926, and were 13 at the start of the war and 19 at the end. If you were institutionalized at 20, that means that it happened after World War II.

Fun Fact: Conscription in Canada was done in a single levy in 1944, meaning you didn't really have the time to do "a pretty good job of staying out of the war".

Are you really 83 years old ?

Isn't Q over 84?

PS Due to a law from the 1860'ties I can't be in the Danish army, woohoo! (that meas I would just have gone to Sweden like my great grandfather, yay!)

[Szilard]

Q, you say you are 83 ? That means you were born in 1926, and were 13 at the start of the war and 19 at the end. If you were institutionalized at 20, that means that it happened after World War II.

Not necessarily. One- he could have been born in a different part of the year, making him twenty before the war ended, or he's talking about a different war.

[Mina Kobold]

Not necessarily. One- he could have been born in a different part of the year, making him twenty before the war ended, or he's talking about a different war.

I remember Q saying something about getting 84 before summer, if I'm right then he would be 20 anyway during the last year of the war wouldn't he?

[Mad Mask]

The first part of my argument is invalid, Q became 20 years old 3 months before the end of the war. It's still a bit weird, though.

And Q, if my deduction is correct, started playing D&D when he was at least 75 years old, since he doesn't know anything about 1e or 2e. Although he may have begun at age 45 or somesuch, if and only if he played the D&D basic set, stopped playing it when 1e came around and restarted playing it when he was 75 years old. Also weird.

And he talked about OotS racing games, being under the effect of childblocks and had bad spelling when he first joined up, but got better. Sounds pretty weird to me too.

[Szilard]

And he talked about OotS racing games, being under the effect of childblocks and had bad spelling when he first joined up, but got better. Sounds pretty weird to me too.

That was from sharing his account with his grandson.