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[Arch-Magos Winter]

Whatever Arch, believe what you want. It won't stop you from being wrong

No.

You should actually fucking research some damn tradecraft before writing a black ops agent/soldier. Seriously, it's less about being badass and more about observing, figuring out what the enemy is doing, intercepting communications, protecting your own assets and uncovering the enemies. If you make a mistake, you are dead. Your country will disavow you, and will look the other way while you're tortured and interrogated (if you were stupid enough not to commit suicide) and brought before a kangaroo court to be executed.

For that matter, I've looked at your writing. It's basically all about either a) Satoshi saving everyone, or b) Satoshi screwing every woman in the universe and they all want his dick. It's rather shit for that matter. It's really really coming off in your writing that you view everyone but Satoshi as an object, but mostly women. It's making me anxious a little bit about you actually, considering you seem to be self inserting into him so hard.

EDIT: Elf, I just want him to put some fucking effort into his characters. He never does, except for one, and the effort he puts in is really not going to salvage such a horrible shit piece of character that has no reason to exist adds nothing to this RP as a whole except making other characters hate his ass because he's such a horrible character that acts nothing like a fucking human being, (though that last bit really he shares in common with all his other characters) and Lantz should seriously just have never been allowed to participate in this or GM smacked for all his bullshit a long time ago. He's really done nothing but get on everyone's nerves here, and contributed nothing overall to this site but horrible porn and a story so bad I can tell he's not releasing new chapters from it because he knows it'll get smacked down so hard on BL, despite apparently having typed it out before hand.

[Cherry Lover]

I don't see how writing porn means "seeing everyone else as an object".

[Arch-Magos Winter]

I don't see how writing porn means "seeing everyone else as an object".

It's how he writes the porn that's the problem actually. There's no fucking heart in it, it's just bad. It doesn't work on any level, and is even worse than most bad lemons I've read, full of totally fucked up characterization, without the benefit of actually being interesting to read. It's pretty obvious in those that Lantz is selfinserting so fucking hard into Satoshi, and the entire collection of his lemons shares this problem.

The fact that his writing can't even get proper grammar down makes it even worse. It feels like he's writing it the whole time with one hand. It's creepy and rather awful.

[Elf]

You should actually fucking research some damn tradecraft before writing a black ops agent/soldier. Seriously, it's less about being badass and more about observing, figuring out what the enemy is doing, intercepting communications, protecting your own assets and uncovering the enemies. If you make a mistake, you are dead. Your country will disavow you, and will look the other way while you're tortured and interrogated (if you were stupid enough not to commit suicide) and brought before a kangaroo court to be executed.

In other words watch Burn Notice.

[lantzblades]

Arch is a cyber bully Mike, simple as that.

Elf I'll post shortly

[Arch-Magos Winter]

You should actually fucking research some damn tradecraft before writing a black ops agent/soldier. Seriously, it's less about being badass and more about observing, figuring out what the enemy is doing, intercepting communications, protecting your own assets and uncovering the enemies. If you make a mistake, you are dead. Your country will disavow you, and will look the other way while you're tortured and interrogated (if you were stupid enough not to commit suicide) and brought before a kangaroo court to be executed.

In other words watch Burn Notice.

Exactly! Or Argo. Argo got it right. You get one detail of your cover identity wrong, you die.

A lot of Tom Clancy novels (Cardinal of the Kremlin is possibly the best about this) are also about tradecraft and worth a read. Hell, Demon: The Descent is basically a tradecraft game, admittedly involving biomechanical monstrosities shanking each other with shards of reality. A Shadowrun sourcebook covers some of it as well. Hell, Shadowrun in general has a whole tradecraft element about it. If someone in the world finds out what you are when you aren't a Runner, you're going to get killed really fast.

The Fugitive, though not being a spy movie exactly, is an amazing example of tradecraft on the part of Harrison Ford's character, and Tommy Lee Jones does an amazing job in portraying how you hunt down anyone using tradecraft. Oh, and then there's a guilty pleasure of mine that also operates on this level, the Bourne Trilogy.

Arch is a cyber bully Mike, simple as that.

Elf I'll post shortly

There's a fucking world of difference between being a critic and being a cyberbully, something your victim complex leaves you seemingly unable to grasp.

[Cherry Lover]

To be fair, Lantz isn't playing an actual secret agent, he's playing a Read or Die character. I am going to take a wild guess and say that RoD has about as much relationship to real spying as James Bond does....

[Arch-Magos Winter]

To be fair, Lantz isn't playing an actual secret agent, he's playing a Read or Die character. I am going to take a wild guess and say that RoD has about as much relationship to real spying as James Bond does....

And if you throw James Bond into reality he dies rather quickly.

Well, maybe not Craig Bond, who's resourceful, and improvises rather well. Look at Skyfall's final scenes. He's stuck with a very limited arsenal, and yet through ingenuity and some rather clever planning is able to win. But bond in general if he gets thrown into a tradecraft world doesn't last long.

The point, Mike, is that Lantz has to put some effort into his shit, something that I haven't seen him do yet.

[lantzblades]

Critics aren't anything like you Arch. Take your cyber bullying elsewhere

[KAIZA]

To be fair, Lantz isn't playing an actual secret agent, he's playing a Read or Die character. I am going to take a wild guess and say that RoD has about as much relationship to real spying as James Bond does....

And if you throw James Bond into reality he dies rather quickly.

And, again, fiction doesn't always follow reality. Just let it go.

[Arch-Magos Winter]

Critics aren't anything like you Arch. Take your cyber bullying elsewhere

On the contrary, they're usually not as nice. Not everyone will like your stuff, and there will always be critics. The problem you seem to have comes from not realizing that the critics don't hate you personally for your work. I dislike you for other reasons than your fics, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms.

And, again, fiction doesn't always follow reality. Just let it go.

I know, but the fact remains that James did something really boneheaded there.

[KAIZA]

Critics aren't anything like you Arch. Take your cyber bullying elsewhere

On the contrary, they're usually not as nice. Not everyone will like your stuff, and there will always be critics. The problem you seem to have comes from not realizing that the critics don't hate you personally for your work. I dislike you for other reasons than your fics, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms.

The bolded line there I'm sure will guarantee he'll ignore what you just said (he'll think you're targeting him).

And, again, fiction doesn't always follow reality. Just let it go.

I know, but the fact remains that James did something really boneheaded there.

Pictured: A ninja. Clearly, this man is the epitome of stealth.

[Elf]

Naruto for that matter!

Not to mention the 50 Shades series isn't a good representation of a true BDSM relationship.  God what pieces of shit!

Mike, do you want me to wait for you to post?

[Arch-Magos Winter]

The bolded line there I'm sure will guarantee he'll ignore what you just said (he'll think you're targeting him).

Pictured: A ninja. Clearly, this man is the epitome of stealth.

Yeah, I sorta just realized that. And the reason is mostly his idiocy with the dungeon crawl thread and his putting me on ignore for no real justification. It's not like I'm PM'ing him harassing stuff or anything like that.

Also, as to the picture: Much stealth. Great Spy.

Naruto for that matter!

Not to mention the 50 Shades series isn't a good representation of a true BDSM relationship.  God what pieces of shit!

Mike, do you want me to wait for you to post?

Hey, orange is amazing camouflage - if you're hunting deer. It looks grey to them.

[lantzblades]

I have all the justification in the world to put you on ignore Arch. It so happens that unlike bl it automatically ignores Pm's. I didn't check a box intentionally to do so but it is because of your attitude that I do not change the default setting to accept your Pm's.

dungeon crawl has nothing to do with you Arch. I already explained that I didn't change it because of you.

if you weren't so busy shitting on me you would have been told that I'm running a separate survival horror game in the next few weeks.