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| Adella's Way; A survivalist trial for masochists...chuckles | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 14 2017, 09:20 AM (6,923 Views) | |
| Serethil | Aug 9 2017, 09:44 AM Post #481 |
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Your long explanations come across more as you trying to convince yourself. I don't see that it should matter how others view your symbiosis with Adella.. |
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| glargg | Aug 9 2017, 02:38 PM Post #482 |
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Hmmm... Yeah, that too... ;) |
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| glargg | Aug 9 2017, 03:53 PM Post #483 |
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...but my money is on "crazy"! ;) |
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| Rick | Aug 9 2017, 08:46 PM Post #484 |
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Convince myself Sere? That would be a pointless exercise,...to explain something for my own benefit which I already know. That would be crazy....<Shrug>. Well, of course it matters how other people see it.....I don't want to come across as just some crazy.... I just want people to understand it the way I do....or think I do. Truth is....I don't fully understand it all myself.....so I find the rational explanation that fits the findings.....chuckles I better get going.... (Edit.... and no more keep explaining, she is what she is....as we all are...ok) Edited by Rick, Aug 9 2017, 09:03 PM.
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| Areial | Aug 9 2017, 09:03 PM Post #485 |
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Et'Ada
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Rick.. you realize "we" understand.. so.. explaining here, is a why?.... explaining elsewhere.... I wouldn't.. some will get it, other's won't.. |
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| Serethil | Aug 9 2017, 09:07 PM Post #486 |
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Et'Ada
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Sad thing is - more won't get it than will. So - explaining accomplishes nothing really. |
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| Rick | Aug 9 2017, 09:10 PM Post #487 |
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Trace, yeah, already found that out. Some people think Adella is a real person....called Adella.....even though I am at great pains to keep periodically telling them she is a persona who lives in Rick's skull.....as all 'characters' live within us. But you are right...some people are just willfully dense. |
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| Serethil | Aug 9 2017, 09:14 PM Post #488 |
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Et'Ada
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In general Rick, I would avoid saying things like "she is a persona who lives in Rick's skull" - because that's going to convince a lot of people (not here, but elsewhere) that you're schizophrenic. Not an ideal situation.... |
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| Rick | Aug 9 2017, 09:32 PM Post #489 |
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Jarl
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Um' yes Sere there is that too. And I am worried.....genuinely worried.....that people who fail to see me as the integral part of Adella's other half....will get a nasty shock when they finally do realise they are talking to a guy. Yet no one insists Harry Potter's creator has to be a man.....or calls JK Rowling crazy for bringing her creation to life huh! Adella's vids are hosted on a You Tube channel belonging to one "Rick"....you'd think that alone to be clue enough! Sah reckons I should just drop the whole Rick connection and let them deal with Adella as she stands....get a new "Adella" You Tube channel....cut me out altogether. I just don't know what to do for best.....Adella on her own is gradually gaining popularity over there! People like what they see and her spunky but haughty attitude. I am at a loss in truth... |
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| Serethil | Aug 9 2017, 09:39 PM Post #490 |
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Et'Ada
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Hummm. That's a poser. And in fact, Sah might be on the right track there. Maybe you should become her.... chronicler, her diarist - her Watson; her "posting ego" as it were - since she hasn't a corporeal body to do that sort of thing herself. [Eh, there's a thought - once VR is mainstream, can Adella be herself without a Rick go-between? Hmmm....] It's an interesting conundrum. Adella is popular - because she's gorgeous, busty, wears skimpy armors (sometimes), and tortures hapless wights.... Still, it's Adella's adventures that are the meat of the posts.... |
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| Areial | Aug 9 2017, 09:39 PM Post #491 |
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Et'Ada
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I think Rick that is something you can only get advice on... because eventually it will all fall on your shoulders. Good, bad or indifferent. I think..and it's just my opinion.. I would keep the U-tube in your name.. the Observant will notice and might ask.. others.. won't know or won't care... and for the 1% that would be...errr offended.. you can always point to the fact that they just had not noticed. |
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| Rick | Aug 9 2017, 09:59 PM Post #492 |
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Thanks girls....it is a new and different angle I had not had to deal with before. Sere, I am bemused. You include Adella torturing hapless bandits as one of the things which make her 'popular'.....really? I would have expected that to add a negative balance....but then I am not the best judge of people. Do people find her nasty side to be in some way intruiging or even...sexy? Bad girls are best huh? Yes, I tend to agree about YouTube Trace....maybe completely covering my identity behind Adella, would be dishonest. |
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| Serethil | Aug 9 2017, 10:03 PM Post #493 |
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Eh, yes. I think a lot of people today playing skyrim (not me - but I'm not talking about me here) think the bad-girl vibe is very much something to watch. I don't go there myself - but you see, that's the benefit to the universe today: every person can watch/read/enjoy what fits. |
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| Areial | Aug 9 2017, 10:11 PM Post #494 |
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Et'Ada
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Oh and then their is the.. ( , )( , ) showing that tween's just loooooove. I mean seriously.. and it's not just tween's... check out some of the stories on L.L. I'd be surprised if you haven't.. some of the pictures are amazingly life like .. yes I can do with out the porn.. but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate some of what the "screen archers" do. Sah is good.. but.. skimpy or not, Sah's personality does not shine through.. and I wish it did, she would be much much more popular if it did. |
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| Serethil | Aug 9 2017, 10:15 PM Post #495 |
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Well.... so do I think. But.... people have to have their comfort space, so maybe hers doesn't include really expressing that personality. Now, I'm personally fine with being completely myself here (and a couple of other places). I AM me here. But there are a lot of places where.... I would never want to express my "real" me - for any number of reasons. |
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| Areial | Aug 9 2017, 10:18 PM Post #496 |
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Oh I don't mean.. "real" Sah.. I mean Sah's persona... I have watched a couple of the more popular U-tubers.. combat wise... Sah would make them eat dirt.. but they have a personality that grabs one.. good or bad. |
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| Serethil | Aug 9 2017, 10:21 PM Post #497 |
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Ah. See.... I don't have the bandwidth to do much youtube - and really that's fine, because my bottom line is I just have zero interest in watching someone play a game that I play. Not to mention that - I just really dislike youtube.... Different strokes..... |
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| Areial | Aug 9 2017, 10:28 PM Post #498 |
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Et'Ada
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Actually I only watch friends for the most part...and listen to music. when my internet is being co-operative! |
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| neildarkstar | Aug 9 2017, 10:28 PM Post #499 |
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Let me tell you a story, Rick. In the days when I rode with a club, my name was Murdoc (yes, there was a reason but that's beside the point). Later on, after I retired from club life, I started playing Dungeons and Dragons... and my first character was a roughhousing thief named Murdoc. In real life, Murdoc was a destructive force... almost a force of nature in that regard. He basically destroyed everyone he came into contact with sooner or later. The D&D version was essentially the same. The problems started when I could no longer see much difference between Murdoc in RL and Murdoc in D&D, and then it became harder and harder to see the difference between either of those Murdocs and the real me. It's difficult to explain... but Murdoc always responded just as I would have in RL... If RL had been lived under a D&D campaign's rules. It started small, but I found myself being introduced as Murdoc, without correcting the error. Then suddenly I was introducing myself as Murdoc. The problem with this is simply that Murdoc wasn't always someone who I could like. ...and then I started getting mail addressed to Mr. Murdoc. He simply took on a life of his own... and not a very good life at that. Imagine for a moment that Adella takes on a life of her own, and has contacts among outlaw bike clubs, organized crime, and a variety of drug dealers... and she doesn't care WHAT you think about it, eh? Here's a "for instance" for you. Some bros and I were passing through a small town in Idaho, and ended up staying for a few days. At some point during the second week of this stay, I met this girl who was a babysitter in the house we were staying at. One day, she came on to me, and I took her up on it, okay? I had no idea she was married... Came the day before we were scheduled to leave, and her husband showed up at the house. Uncomfortable, yes? then, as we sat in the living room, unasked she brougth me a beer and informed her husband he could get his own. Really, really uncomfortable. I went outside where I was working on something or other, and her husband walks up to me and says "We need to have a talk." So, I said "Okay, just let me finish this thing here, and I'll be right with you." I needed to cut a piece off, so I whipped out my truste blade, flicked the blade out, and used it. When I looked up the husband was gone. I went around asking about him, and was told he had walked over to me, then hurriedly walked to his car and left. I didn't think anymore about it until the next day. We were ready to leave, and the girl shows up and says "Okay, I'm ready to go." I was all like "Wait, hold on! What the hell are you talking about?" "I'm going with you" I was completely at a loss, saying "Look Millie, I don't love you. I don't even know you, and you're NOT leaving with me. We had a moment once, and it's over. It never really existed in the first place, so just forget it and go home." Then she says "Why did you run my husband off then?" That really left me flabbergasted, because that was the first that I'd heard about it. I just said "Goodbye Millie" and we headed out of town. I never saw her again. That however, was typical Murdoc... and Murdoc was the only name she (or any of them) knew me by. In fact, I might not have been there at all. In the end, I had to do away with him, and that was difficult to say the least. So let me ask you this Rick... If Adella were to take on a life of her own in RL, would that be a good thing? Really? The truth is that I think you're walking in some dangerous sand, Rick. As a friend, I would like to warn you to take care. |
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| Rick | Aug 10 2017, 06:04 AM Post #500 |
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Hmmm, I see what you are getting at. Although, I never lose touch with who I am. I ain't ever gonna be in the crazy category where I black out and then hear in the morning paper how some short fat guy in a long blonde wig hacked up someone with a replica waraxe. Or...wake up in the middle of the night...stood in the garden dressed in a bra and panties :O (on the other hand ;) ) Where I worry is people might believe Adella really is a lady called...Adella. Then when I turn around and say oh btw Adella lives in a guys head.....that will upset some people and at least put them off her. I think that is happening already, to some degree. The tight rope to walk.....is giving her a serious 'real' existence IRL....but still reminding people she is a personality and not of the flesh. What happened in Haven....where we all are used to each other....is you know its me behind her, but you can still converse with her as a faceless persona and she responds with sincerity. I guess I am attempting to carry that over into a wider audience.....who does not have that understanding. But after the chat here....I am concluding that giving her a fully independant existance...her own tube channel and never mentioning me....would be a mistake. Adella would love it of course...and it would help her grow even more, but the risk is that someone will get the wrong idea of me, and her. Thanks guys for helping with this....sometimes it helps to have clarity restored :hugs: |
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