Board 8 > nominate users for Drakeryn to write a bio for

(+) Yeah! (+)

less time for therapy sessions?
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Nominating Chichiri.

EDIT: And also tag -- pretty rad you're doing this!
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i mean, is he?
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I sure hope so
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i dont think so
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*checks*

Maybe the topic is stalled out because @Drakeryn doesn't want to do his own bio. Which makes sense. He's pretty measured when it comes to talking about himself. Despite being mostly above the fray, he enjoys being well-liked and doesn't love ruffling feathers. He likes competence, dislikes whining, and mainly likes to see competence and intelligence rewarded and acknowledged for its own sake. And he is a competent guy, so he'd rather not toot his own horn to build his street cred.

Drak tends to feel that you are what you make of your situation, which plays somewhat at odds with his existence on B8. There are very few objective measures of success on B8, since most of them depend on external validation - whether it's mafia, User of the Year, or Mercs. Drak likes watching the machinations of the politicking, but for the most part his personal strategy is to stray away from it. It's also why he tends to excel at the stuff that isn't explicitly political - creating user bios, or designing fictional backstories, or performing administration, or drawing neat avatars.

I like Drak as a student of the board. He knows how to make someone feel appreciated - or not.
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I got SD to write a bio for drak and drak to write one for me, what a successful topic
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i feel like sd needs some bold headers if he wants to stay consistent with drak bios
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whoa

now I have to continue the topic, huh

tbh I always planned on skipping mine, I'm just lazy
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where's my haiku

Tag
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Nominate mer
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bump
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again
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Oh no it's the Pokemon fusions topic all over again.
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yep
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yep
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Okay if the topic has turned into "History lessons with drakeryn" I'm more than okay with that
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Lopen

I was hung up on this one because I can recite all kinds of facts about Lopen, but none of them do anything to capture the essence of Lopen-ness. Finally I decided to just embrace it and give you a trivia dump, after which I shall let Lopen express his own essence in his own words.

i miss lopen

1. Known for BOLD contest predictions
2. Has a longstanding rivalry with Leonhart over contest predictions (though, win or lose, Lopen's are always more outlandish)
3. Has more GAME FUEL than Luster
4. Recently named Best Debater of Board 8 by an unbiased topic of his peers
5. Also does the best promos
6. Raiden fanboy
7. Seymour fanboy
8. X-Death fanboy
9. Knows how to spell X-Death's name properly
10. Ilya fanboy (this is a cute and pop genocide of love!)
11. Likes tsunderes
12. Dislikes weak-minded/whiny/helpless characters/people
13. Allergic to pigpeople (HGR got him to download Umineko while drunk, but then he sobered up and refused to play it)
14. Ships Rin x Shirou
15. Racist against slimes
16. Not a conservative
17. Or wait, maybe he is a conservative? I can never keep this one straight
18. Not a fan of cooperative board games
19. Not a fan of League of Legends but he GUESSES he might play a game just because there is absolutely nothing better to do
20. Dante is sorry for the jungle malzahar incident, please come back Lopen

Lopen: the glory days

So GenesisTwilight was #2 in the declaration order. Lopen said 'hey gen declare on me and I will TOTALLY forfeit' and everyone else said 'lmao don't do it' so, of course, Gen did it.

Lopen | Posted 4/6/2010 8:33:06 PM | message detail
You sniveling parasite. Did you really think I was about to forfeit to you? Really?

Now you shall pay for turning mercs into a circus. Week in and week out you've turned grand battles into a glorified monster truck rally, expecting a shell to smash around and do all the work for you. Your pathetic team made do on tricks and gimmicks when you should've been proven in COMBAT.

Then you accept pity from your enemies? What a disgusting clown, an idealistic and gullible mongrel. I will grind your team into dust and blow the decrepit powder of weakness from the face of the earth. Mercs will forget GenesisTwilight ever existed. What a glorious day. Hahahahaha... HAHAHAHA.

Tira goes schizo

Achromatic | Posted 4/6/2010 8:33:48 PM | message detail
You are going to pay for that if you are being sincere, Mercs polices itself.

Lopen | Posted 4/6/2010 8:35:32 PM | message detail
Haha... police? Police? The so called police are too self absorbed in their own agendas to stop me.

BOW DOWN BEFORE YOUR NEW KING.

(8:39:58 PM) Lopen: I am the king
(8:40:05 PM) Lopen: I slaughtered him without remorse
(8:40:11 PM) Lopen: A cold calculating agent of slash and burn
(8:40:42 PM) DAFIGHTINFREAKKNUCKLES: you made a losing team forfeit to you
(8:40:50 PM) DAFIGHTINFREAKKNUCKLES: it's not that impressive
(8:41:06 PM) Lopen: Oh shut up GANON it was awesome.
(8:41:18 PM) Lopen: The art of bald faced lies are mine
(8:42:00 PM) Twilight: personally i kinda figured it'd be more likely that you would go against your word
(8:42:09 PM) Twilight: You're not exactly the charitable type, Lopen.
(8:43:29 PM) Lopen: Indeed. Mercs is about crushing people into the dirt. Not -forfeiting-
(8:43:31 PM) Lopen: How gross

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18. Not a fan of cooperative board games

@Drakeryn @Lopen @HeroicGammaRay @Dantezoid @OlDirtyNumbers let's play Diplomacy imo
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Gatarix posted...

13. Allergic to pigpeople (HGR got him to download Umineko while drunk, but then he sobered up and refused to play it)

lopen classix
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Also why does GANON1025 not have a DAFIGHTINFREAKKNUCKLES alt I just realized this

what a shameful display
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Oh god I had completely forgotten about that jungle malzahar game

Lopen please forgive me it will never be that bad again i promise
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Thank you for tagging me so that I was able to read that bio most excellent (and realize that this topic had returned from the dead {for now})
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Dantezoid posted...

Lopen please forgive me it will never be that bad again i promise

Betrayal can never be forgiven.
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look sometimes what appears to be betrayal is just the smart game move

i may have only been worth 50 gold but thats 50 gold they didn't need
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bump
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yep
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yep
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i agree
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Bump
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yep
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yep
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interlude: book recommendations

aka I was reading instead of doing writeups

these are mostly for book club people and people who have rec'd me books in the past. so if you didn't get a personalized rec then my rec is Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo. or really any of the other books, they're all great

Kanzaris (possibly a group read with trdl, or anyone else who likes unassuming protagonists who take over the world, puppetmasters, and intricate revenge plots):
The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins

@tabiicat42 & @digiiiiiiiii group read:
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe - Kij Johnson
(digi was the guy who recommended Valente's Deathless to me. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe has the same kind of lyrical quality to its world. Also Vellitt Boe is, like, future tabi or something)

@Maniac64 (since he rec'd me Mistborn) (I know everyone recommends Mistborn, but Maniac came first):
The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness

numbers:
The Girl With All the Gifts - M.R. Carey
(ft. a better ending than TLoU!!!)

SD: (this one isn't too weird, I promise)
The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
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Book acquired

Hype levels set high
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Drakeryn posted...

@tabiicat42 & @digiiiiiiiii group read:
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe - Kij Johnson
(digi was the guy who recommended Valente's Deathless to me. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe has the same kind of lyrical quality to its world. Also Vellitt Boe is, like, future tabi or something)

This sounds exactly like something I'd love. I'm a huge Lovecraft fan.
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Where are my recs
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you know I was thinking of you but was like 'that boy isn't into books'

also, most of my recs would overlap what I posted anyway. take your pick

Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo) - criminal mastermind & team execute a grand heist
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Patrick Ness) - adventure story with a boy and his dog and a girl
Wolf by Wolf (Ryan Graudin) - shapeshifting concentration camp escapee tries to assassinate Hitler
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Hey drak, white shirt black sportscoat charcoal pants, what color tie do I go for
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maroon
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Ok we'll see if I can find one

Thanks (also thanks for the recs one day I'll try them out)
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Drakeryn posted...

@Maniac64 (since he rec'd me Mistborn) (I know everyone recommends Mistborn, but Maniac came first):
The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness

Woo!

Never heard of it but it is now on my To Read list on Goodreads. It sounds interesting.
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I still support this topic. #ISupportThisTopic
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I didn't find maroon sorry

Did blue/black
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