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He used to lurk. He'd pop up every so often when his story was mentioned. Haven't seen him in a year or two, so I assume that GM finally got him. Damn shame.
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Lanky Story 1 was the Psycho DM, the lasagna, ended up getting escorted from the house by cops.
Lanky Story 2 was much later, meeting a fraud storyteller who told a tale featuring themself as Lanky....to Lanky.
Lanky Story 3 was where his (ex)-girlfriend and PC stabbed him with a kitchen knife.
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Originally Posted by GungHo, on Battletech
The Atlas is also goofy but it has that whole "Stay Puft Marshmallow Man" menacing smile thing going for it. The guy who drew that one up was obviously taken to the Nutcracker when he was a child... and he was screaming in terror the entire time.
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Originally Posted by Enterti, Cogidubnus
Glyphstone, out of all the playground I think you scare me the most...
Lanky Story 3 was where his (ex)-girlfriend and PC stabbed him with a kitchen knife.
Actually, I read all three stories recently, and the ex was never one of the players. If she had been then that incident might not have happened at all (because she might have been able to separate IC from OOC-flirting better, and probably wouldn't have been holding the knife).
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Originally Posted by Cirrylius
That's how wizards beta test their new animals. If it survives Australia, it's a go. Which in hindsight explains a LOT about Australia.
I can only imagine he's moved on with his life. He may or may not still be playing games; I wouldn't blame him if he'd become disillusioned with the hobby after what he'd gone through. Sadly, I don't think he's been here for a while, so he probably won't be able to answer the question...
Lanky Story 1 was the Psycho DM, the lasagna, ended up getting escorted from the house by cops.
Lanky Story 2 was much later, meeting a fraud storyteller who told a tale featuring themself as Lanky....to Lanky.
Lanky Story 3 was where his (ex)-girlfriend and PC stabbed him with a kitchen knife.
No, I remember it as:
Lanky Story 1 was the Psycho DM, the lasagna, ended up getting escorted from the house by cops.
Lanky Story 2 was much later, meeting a fraud storyteller who told a tale featuring themself as Lanky....to Lanky. And the girl who fell for Fraud due to tale.
Lanky Story 3 was where his (ex)-girlfriend stabbed him with a kitchen knife, after flirting occurred from Girl in Story 2 (he invited her to join his D&D game). I remember he had posts saying he was asking for it.
Actually, I read all three stories recently, and the ex was never one of the players. If she had been then that incident might not have happened at all (because she might have been able to separate IC from OOC-flirting better, and probably wouldn't have been holding the knife).
I'm pretty certain that while she wasn't a player that evening (of the stabbing), she was an off-and-on type.
Anyway, to any doubters, the stories are legit- a lot of photographic evidence. I'll go ahead and link them in the OP. Though they were recently linked in a Forsaken GM thread nearby.
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"Some DMs may want to use templates to create everything from a fiendish hobgoblin to a vampiric half-celestial animated chair." -Rodney Thompson
Actually, I read all three stories recently, and the ex was never one of the players. If she had been then that incident might not have happened at all (because she might have been able to separate IC from OOC-flirting better, and probably wouldn't have been holding the knife).
Right, my bad, I had the details blurring.
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Originally Posted by GungHo, on Battletech
The Atlas is also goofy but it has that whole "Stay Puft Marshmallow Man" menacing smile thing going for it. The guy who drew that one up was obviously taken to the Nutcracker when he was a child... and he was screaming in terror the entire time.
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Originally Posted by Enterti, Cogidubnus
Glyphstone, out of all the playground I think you scare me the most...
I remember he had posts saying he was asking for it.
And I remember those posts being addressed at the fact that he's created past tension, by refusing to let up his habits with a very close friend (he says she's like a cat. But I still don't think that's an excuse to hold her in his arms. Same with the fact that he pretty much IS more intimate with her than with whoever his current girlfriends is, he even tells them up front that her and his other good friends come first) and misleading the girlfriend to think she didn't swing that way (she's bisexual).
Third story maybe, but how is he at fault in any way in the first story with PsychoDM?
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Originally Posted by GungHo, on Battletech
The Atlas is also goofy but it has that whole "Stay Puft Marshmallow Man" menacing smile thing going for it. The guy who drew that one up was obviously taken to the Nutcracker when he was a child... and he was screaming in terror the entire time.
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Originally Posted by Enterti, Cogidubnus
Glyphstone, out of all the playground I think you scare me the most...
But the original curse was '1d4 Con/day unless I make my antidote, which I have plenty of ingredients for and can easy get more'. It was PsychoDM that started making it crazy complicated and strange.
If I remember the followup right, it came out that PsychoDm went Psycho because Lanky's character portrait was from an anime he didn't like or something...
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Originally Posted by GungHo, on Battletech
The Atlas is also goofy but it has that whole "Stay Puft Marshmallow Man" menacing smile thing going for it. The guy who drew that one up was obviously taken to the Nutcracker when he was a child... and he was screaming in terror the entire time.
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Originally Posted by Enterti, Cogidubnus
Glyphstone, out of all the playground I think you scare me the most...
Generally, once you pull the "Get back in the kitchen!"-card, moral superiority belongs to whoever isn't you.
Personally, I just chalk that to poor choice of words. I read it as to "Leave this room, calm down, and let cooler heads prevail." Basically, she was in the kitchen, go back there and take a few deep breaths.
Nothing on it seemed misogynistic or anything to me. And even if it did, it definitely didn't deserve a stabbing, vital organ damage or no.
Personally, I just chalk that to poor choice of words. I read it as to "Leave this room, calm down, and let cooler heads prevail." Basically, she was in the kitchen, go back there and take a few deep breaths.
Nothing on it seemed misogynistic or anything to me. And even if it did, it definitely didn't deserve a stabbing, vital organ damage or no.
Yeahhh… there are things you can say that are so provocative a jury might go more leniently on your stabber. That particular one wasn't really a good candidate.
Of course, I also think he should have chosen a different course of dealing with Tammy (or whatever her name was), but eh.
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I wouldn't "trivialize" words if people weren't trivializing a person being stabbed and saying he deserved it.
He was weakly stabbed with a paring knife. He had three friends, one of whom was described as a bodybuilder, in the same room and easy access to medical care, and in the end, he lived to brag about it. When all was said and done, the stabbing itself wasn't exactly a big deal.
Yeahhh… there are things you can say that are so provocative a jury might go more leniently on your stabber. That particular one wasn't really a good candidate.
Of course, I also think he should have chosen a different course of dealing with Tammy (or whatever her name was), but eh.
Yeah, I don't have any particular problem with how he acted during the immediate scene.
And the reason PsychoDM hated him was because he used manga style to sketch his character. And apparently manga and anime are the devil itself because a girl broke up with PsychoDM at a manga con.
He's definitely at fault at the 3rd story. Not the only one at fault, mind you, but still at fault. "Get back in the kitchen".... yeah right.
Definitely an extremely poor choice of words, but this was actually one of the few situations where it's contextually appropriate, enough so that you might not realize what exactly you just said until it's already out of your mouth.
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Originally Posted by Cirrylius
That's how wizards beta test their new animals. If it survives Australia, it's a go. Which in hindsight explains a LOT about Australia.
Third story maybe, but how is he at fault in any way in the first story with PsychoDM?
The DM sounds like a bad DM, but the whole thing smacks of a lack of any semblance of social graces on either side, which is a common theme in Lanky's posts. The abbreviated version of the way I read that story is that nobody was acting like an adult, including Lanky, who was unable to perform as mundane a task as putting up with a friend of a friend, and who threw that man out for acting smug and playing a game in a way Lanky didn't like.
Definitely an extremely poor choice of words, but this was actually one of the few situations where it's contextually appropriate, enough so that you might not realize what exactly you just said until it's already out of your mouth.
Yes. Context and tone matter more than the words itself.
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The DM sounds like a bad DM, but the whole thing smacks of a lack of any semblance of social graces on either side, which is a common theme in Lanky's posts. The abbreviated version of the way I read that story is that nobody was acting like an adult, including Lanky, who was unable to perform as mundane a task as putting up with a friend of a friend, and who threw that man out for acting smug and playing a game in a way Lanky didn't like.
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