[9.2.4] You will of course be more than capable of terminating the Architect - Syntax - 1/31/08

Funny,  I called agent gray yesterday and he gave me a mission....  

Take your time bringing him back... *CENSORED* agents...

Many of us like to dress in a businesslike manor... what is so wrong with that? Personally, one of the reasons why I joined Tetra was because of the uniform we had then and still have now, the system suit is just a variant. If I were ever to join another faction which doesn't enforce a dress code I'd still wear the suit. The system suit just happens to be a very good looking and smart outfit that I like to wear, I didn't hear anyone complaining about the fact that most of us wear the system shades... or that most, if not all, Cyphs wear bandanas.

I have no problems with other Machinists wearing their own style of attire, but, unless at parties etc..., I will always wear what I find to be an organisational identifier and a smart businesslike outfit, that is the image I like to project. Personality is not defined by how you dress.

Wrong. Clothes make the man. Your personality is what others make of it, not how you want your personality to be.
Dress in a clown suit and you'll act different than when you wear a decent suit. =) Your personality changes instantly.
You dress formally to act formally. You dress to impress, if not others then certainly to impress yourself, either in a positive, humourus, a negative or whatever way. You like to look business-ish, that's cool, but so you will you act business-ish too, which is still cool. Try wearing all colours of the rainbows for 3 days and you'll see your mood will change. People will react differently towards you and you will react different too.
Clothes make the man. There's no escape from it. If you won't change yourself then the people you're with will act different, which will lead to you responding in a different way, talking about different things, doing different things.
It is not for no reason that business people wear formal clothes and not jogging suits. People's personalities do change with clothes.

It's not wrong. Do what you like to do. Is it wrong of me to have a different opinion about it? Dressing exactly like an Agent, trying to talk like one, falls in the same category as wearing a purple vest with black coat, standing in /mood regal and preach about truth and prophecies for me.
I'm not saying you, Vinia, does this. There are people who do this, though. =) Like...99% of the Tetra's? =P

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There are people who do this, though. =) Like...99% of the Tetra's? =P

Reeverb wrote:

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There are people who do this, though. =) Like...99% of the Tetra's? =P

Do not underestimate the depth of a Tetragrammaton operative.

Dress in a clown suit and you'll act different than when you wear a decent suit. =) Your personality changes instantly.

There are people who do this, though. =) Like...99% of the Tetra's? =P

Reeverb wrote:

Dress in a clown suit and you'll act different than when you wear a decent suit. =) Your personality changes instantly.

That simple point is wrong. You can act and think however you want, no matter what you're wearing (physical limitations that come with wearing, say, large clown shoes notwithstanding). You might be erring on the side of insanity if you dress up in a clown suit, of course, but that needn't affect your outward personality nor your behaviour.

Reeverb wrote:

There are people who do this, though. =) Like...99% of the Tetra's? =P

I'm going to jump in here in Tetra's defense too, which long time followers of my exploits (get a life!) might find surprising. Tetra has changed one heck of a lot in the last year. Their uniform may be about as Agent-like as you can get - by design - but their members aren't as, eh, black and white as they used to be.

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The clown suit may be a big example, dunno how else to put it, but I tried to illustrate the situation. Fact of the matter is: You act the way you dress. Put a hip-hop dude in a pink ballet-tutu, and he'll be emberassed - maybe that get's the point across? The hiphopper might not show it but generally, no hiphopper would feel comfortable wearing a pink tutu (there are always exceptions. Pink hair, for one). Works the other way around too: A formal suit gives someone confidence. - How ridiculous this sounds, it is a fact. Clothes shouldn't make a difference but they do. People feel comfortable in them, it gives them confidence if they look how they like to look.

Sure, Tetra's changed. I shouldn't have posted that, 'cause it adds nothing to my point. I don't even have anything against the Tetra's. The people who do dress and talk like Agents know what I am talking about when they read this. =)

Hooray, Gray is back! 

Lyr

Hooray, Gray is back! 

Lyr

The Gray is a lie.

Also, he's watching us. That little perverted Ar ...

The clown suit may be a big example, dunno how else to put it, but I tried to illustrate the situation. Fact of the matter is: You act the way you dress. Put a hip-hop dude in a pink ballet-tutu, and he'll be emberassed - maybe that get's the point across? The hiphopper might not show it but generally, no hiphopper would feel comfortable wearing a pink tutu (there are always exceptions. Pink hair, for one). Works the other way around too: A formal suit gives someone confidence. - How ridiculous this sounds, it is a fact. Clothes shouldn't make a difference but they do. People feel comfortable in them, it gives them confidence if they look how they like to look.