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Alright, confess odd things.

Excessive complaining isn't allowed anywhere on the site. Keep it out of this thread.

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Alright, confess odd things.

For example, I'm jealous to my big brother becuase he discovered The Smiths first. Dammit, now I can't have a crush for Morrisey without feeling weird about it.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 5th 2023 at 5:46:13 AM

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
Thnikkafan ? from Faroe Islands (not really) Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#7077: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:07:38 PM

I still play the imagine game. Just... by myself. It helps me brainstorm ideas for fanfics and drawings.

Anyone who assigns themselves loads of character tropes is someone to be worried about.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#7078: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:09:03 PM

Unfortunately, I can't really act out somebody regenerating their skin and claws after being partially dissolved by a nuclear weapon, which is the sort of thing that I imagine now.

...and I could act out that other stuff?

edited 25th Sep '09 6:09:23 PM by Tzetze

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MadeofMeat Since: Jan, 2001
#7079: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:15:35 PM

I played doctor a lot as a kid. Boring, boring. Pretty much your average stuff. I wrapped people up in toilet paper, tied them to the bed, poked them with pushpins, used candy as pills, used makeup and costume bits to "turn them into experiments", dragged them around the house on cardboard stretchers, used plastic easter eggs as oxygen masks, everything any other kid did.

I also had this ongoing saga with faeries and vampires and stuff with my friend. We were constantly "on". She was a faerie vampire, I was a ghost Cat Girl witch.

edited 25th Sep '09 6:15:50 PM by Made of Meat

AFGNCAAP Not axe crazy I swear from Great Underground Empire Since: Jun, 2009
Not axe crazy I swear
#7080: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:18:13 PM

I was really boring, and played the same way I play things like Dn D—human with no special powers. Everyone else had a monopoly on those; boring. I found it much more badass for a normal to do great things just like those with powers.

I wish we still played games like that today, though; I have much better character ideas now, even if most of them are still humans.

Some writing.
LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#7081: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:20:20 PM

Oh, I also had a saga concerning fae and vampires. And keep in mind that back then I really believed that I could control the wind. I had no doubt about it. If I thought hard enough, it got windy. That was how the world worked; it wasn't just my fancy.

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
Oh My
#7082: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:23:33 PM

On imagination games and youth: I used to make up stupid stories with my toys all the time. They were simple "someone has been kidnapped/the town is being attack we must fight!" things. They went on and on though....I'd just keep adding new people to the plot until I eventually grew bored of it. My games were rarely finished.

I also used to play with a neighbor kid. It was like live action roleplaying done by small children. The plots tended to be massive crossover type things. Sometimes they'd last for more than a day. Sometimes his older brother would join in too.

Most of the time though it was just me and him and the dozens of characters we knew from games and cartoons. We'd roleplay all the characters...It made sense at the time.

We also used toy swords and shields and whatnot for our roleplay. Our favorite thing to use was this wooden sword I had. I used to have two of them. I lost the other...

I also used to play these roleplay games alone. So...it'd be me in the backyard talking to myself and thin air. With props of course. Those made it better.

edited 25th Sep '09 6:24:25 PM by Aondeug

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#7083: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:30:50 PM

I did that last thing too, Aon. Don't sweat about it.

And I just saw that you said you had props. My props were also made of imagination.

edited 25th Sep '09 6:34:17 PM by Lucky Revenant

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
MadeofMeat Since: Jan, 2001
#7084: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:33:04 PM

I wish I were helpful. Emotionally.

EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#7085: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:46:11 PM

I used to pretend things were video games, on account of having played way too many of them as a kid.

LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#7086: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:48:05 PM

Oh, I just remembered the saga that involved Custom Robo. That was interesting. And Custom Robo was only marginally related. Also, there was lots of sex.

I was a horny kid.

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#7088: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:50:55 PM

Yeah, but somewhere down the line I came to be ashamed of it. That shame lives on to this day! It's why I wish I was asexual.

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
MadeofMeat Since: Jan, 2001
#7089: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:51:30 PM

How do you pretend to have sex?

LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#7090: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:53:35 PM

A lot of the action went on only in my mind. I didn't really "pretend" to have sex so much as I imagined I was having sex. And it wasn't me that was having the sex, it was one of many characters I had created. Mostly the girls...

edited 25th Sep '09 6:54:04 PM by Lucky Revenant

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
Oh My
#7091: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:54:27 PM

You get a pillow and...You know I'm ashamed to say I did something like that as a child. But humping pillows as a ten year old did nothing and I grew frustrated and decided it was stupid.

And now here I am today...

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Miijhal Since: Jul, 2011
#7092: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:56:52 PM

Oh, I remember my imagination games quite well. They were basically built off really bad Shonen tropes or Mon games where we played as the mons. Me and my friends generally used bestiaries from other games for those ones.

I was also notorious for having my characters die.

I refuse to elaborate further.

edited 25th Sep '09 6:57:49 PM by Miijhal

Galeros Slay foes with bow and arrow Since: Jan, 2001
Slay foes with bow and arrow
#7093: Sep 25th 2009 at 6:58:21 PM

I have played those sorts of games as late as two years ago(when I was 19) and I would again if the chance presented itself.

LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#7094: Sep 25th 2009 at 7:00:09 PM

I also had the habit of killing characters.

Did anyone else have elaborate character development in their games? I'm pretty sure I did. Though I suppose it may not have been as elaborate as I think it was.

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
BobbyG vigilantly taxonomish from England Since: Jan, 2001
vigilantly taxonomish
#7095: Sep 25th 2009 at 7:00:10 PM

I was still at the "really grossed out by the concept of sex" stage while I was at the age where we would play make-believe games. We were usually soldiers, deployed on a top secret mission in a jungle, deep in enemy territory. We had continuity and everything, because we would stop our games at the end of break and pick up where we left off next time we felt like playing.

I remember a lot of jumping over landmines, and dramatic shootouts. Sometimes we would capture people and pretend to tie them up. And there was one time we stumbled across an immensely powerful prehistoric bioweapon that had been sealed away beneath a temple for centuries. Good times.

edited 25th Sep '09 7:00:57 PM by BobbyG

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LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#7096: Sep 25th 2009 at 7:03:11 PM

Oh, I had landmines in mine too! Especially in the Fae and Vampire arc.

It's a shame I don't actually remember most of these stories. I remember vague parts of the stories, but that's all.

I also remember there being a castle in the sky wherein the Supreme Beings, which were like gods, lived and a whole religion that I built around it. Guess I've always had a habit of worldbuilding.

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
BobbyG vigilantly taxonomish from England Since: Jan, 2001
vigilantly taxonomish
#7097: Sep 25th 2009 at 7:09:50 PM

Yours sounds a lot more imaginative. We were always too busy running around shooting one another to do proper worldbuilding.

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MadeofMeat Since: Jan, 2001
#7098: Sep 25th 2009 at 7:11:29 PM

I know I will regret my posts in the Hot Blooded IJBM thread. Probably in a few minutes!

ImipolexG frozen in time from all our yesterdays Since: Jan, 2001
frozen in time
#7099: Sep 25th 2009 at 7:12:50 PM

My sister and I used to worldbuild, but we started with a Super Mario milieu and built from there. New characters, maps, badly-written comics, crossovers with other stuff (like Sonic), and so on. It was completely asexual, almost unnaturally so, now that I look back at it.

no one will notice that I changed this
LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#7100: Sep 25th 2009 at 7:13:54 PM

Most of my friends didn't really live near me, so I couldn't play with them much. Besides, they weren't as imaginative as I was. At least, not in the same way. So while they were playing with cars, I was blowing up streets with my uber-sexual Digimon friends.

edited 25th Sep '09 7:14:20 PM by Lucky Revenant

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."

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