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A rare and fascinating event. Nervous Breakdown involves a warrior who is running a large number of Socks at one time, sometimes across several forums. As the warrior 'installs' more and more socks to maintain a particular attack, these socks naturally begin to require more attention to detail. Some warriors rely on Role Playing as a method to run many socks at once. Using the Role Playing method, a huge amount of socks can be run at the same time when they are based on actual warrior types. Once the warrior type is determined, the warrior simply looks at the terms of the role-play for the particular sock compared with the previous post. When a lot of socks are involved, no continuity is attempted, just an appropriate flame responce. Although such socks can make good impressions, they are not much more than organic bots- good for one-liners, but can't keep much conversation going.
After a time, the constant abuse that many of the socks recieve finally breaks the spirit of the warrior. During the Nervous Breakdown, the forum springs to life as strange, loopy-like things come spewing from newbies and some 'oldbies' alike. Freaks from the past come springing forward, and PM's fly like frizbee's on a dog's day at the park. Yes, they are all socks from the Nervous Breakdown, savagely attacking everything in one great self-destructive Global PMS. Delusions of grandeur are often known to set in during this episode for the afflicted warrior.
Although it is quite entertaining to be on a board where a warrior has a Nervous Breakdown, it is also important to stop and reflect that the poor soul is in need of professional help, and is to also be pitied. Many warriors never recover from a Nervous Breakdown, and spend the rest of their lives muttering on the streetcorners, holding up cardboard signs.
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Tue May 31, 2005 10:26 pm
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Clueless Newb
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Guess that would be me.
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Tue May 31, 2005 10:35 pm
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| Theognome wrote: |
| Although it is quite entertaining to be on a board where a warrior has a Nervous Breakdown, it is also important to stop and reflect that the poor soul is in need of professional help, and is to also be pitied. Many warriors never recover from a Nervous Breakdown, and spend the rest of their lives muttering on the streetcorners, holding up cardboard signs. |
Or listening to kid rock.
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Tue May 31, 2005 10:37 pm
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| Lord Cheesus wrote: |
| Theognome wrote: |
| Although it is quite entertaining to be on a board where a warrior has a Nervous Breakdown, it is also important to stop and reflect that the poor soul is in need of professional help, and is to also be pitied. Many warriors never recover from a Nervous Breakdown, and spend the rest of their lives muttering on the streetcorners, holding up cardboard signs. |
Or listening to kid rock. |
Yeah... That's another common symptom.
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Tue May 31, 2005 10:55 pm
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| Guess that would be me. |
When I consider this statement, I wonder...
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| Hear we now the bleating of the sock of the Sacrificial Lamb? |
[/throwing lifeless bodies onto the pyre]
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Tue May 31, 2005 11:14 pm
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I dunno... I don't think Nervous Breakdown is a fitting name. I dig the description, but a nervous breakdown is something that happens to one overstressed person. What you're describing sounds like an outbreak of insane chaos.
Might I suggest some alternative names?
Bedlam
Spreading Madness
Complete System Failure
Jailbreak at the Asylum
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Tue May 31, 2005 11:33 pm
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| irritus wrote: |
What you're describing sounds like an outbreak of insane chaos.
Might I suggest some alternative names?
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How about In the Mouth of Madness?
Ah, my horror movie craving wants to be fed. For all its cheese factor, I love that one. |
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Tue May 31, 2005 11:34 pm
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| irritus wrote: |
I dunno... I don't think Nervous Breakdown is a fitting name. I dig the description, but a nervous breakdown is something that happens to one overstressed person. What you're describing sounds like an outbreak of insane chaos.
Might I suggest some alternative names?
Bedlam
Spreading Madness
Complete System Failure
Jailbreak at the Asylum |
I see what you're getting at, but remember that when one person goes into Super stress, other folks nearby will also feel some stress themselves from it. The names you give focus more on the overall response, which I covered to some extent in Global PMS. The Nervous Breakdown description, however, focuses on the prime cause of the stress, hence the name. I think it's appropriate.
Edit- clarity
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Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:55 pm
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Since it's about one person running socks, I'd call it the sins of the father.
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Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:28 pm
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Ah, I misread it as they go crazy and everyone around them does too. Ignore my previous post. Crazy talk on my part.
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Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:30 pm
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Oh ya now that you mention it, I actually have seen on sites where a certain user will cause trouble and well it basicly ends with him getting a ban and usually all hell breaks loose.
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As with any undercover operative in the real world, Stealth faces a psychological challenge. How deep undrcover is too deep? Stealth Madness strikes when Stealth either can no longer stand hiding who or what it is, or when the multiplicity of its nature causes an identity crisis where the fake personalities to blur with the real one.
Stealth, no matter how good at keeping in the role they invent, will eventually suffer a psychotic breakdown if remaining within an alternate character for too long. It is worth noting that novice Stealths and those merely dabbling in the dark arts crack sooner than veterans. Perhaps it is the real personality fighting for dominance. Perhaps fatigue at holding up the ruse becomes too much.
At some point, the Stealth undergoes noticable personality changes. Cover identities may suffer abrupt changes in personality, which to members who assume those identities are real people will see as a Jekyll/Hyde transformation. They might become psychotically angry for no reason. An otherwise inoffensive "character" may violently attack someone for no reason. Stealth itself might become more hostile under the real handle.
As Stealth vents hostility, equilibrium returns and all of its handles seems to become sane again. Stealth Madness attacks tend to be cyclical, marked by a sudden burst of violent rage (resembling mental breakdown), slowly lessening rage, then a period of increasing normalcy.
NOTE: A similar, though less severe version of this psychopathy may effect Imposter. |
I thought it beneficial to go ahead and consolidate the two separate observances of the same behavior onto one thread.
RISE my precious thread! 
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Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:43 pm
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Or listening to kid rock. |
Using Kid Rock avatars, not listening to Kid Rock Mr.Knownothing.
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| Lord Cheesus wrote: |
Or listening to kid rock. |
Using Kid Rock avatars, not listening to Kid Rock Mr.Knownothing. |
Touche'
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A better title, IMHO, would be Reign of Insanity.
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