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| Tamer Anode/Cathode:
What are the best and worst parts of being a staffer? Do you ever regret taking the job? What's your opinion on the current state of the Western Touhou community? Does anything need to change or improve? What kind of things do you think fanfiction writers should aim to do in order to create good stories? What's your stance on hentai/pornography; do you find it exploitative or immoral? |
| Mimachiro:
Land or sea and why? What is your ideal home like, in as much detail as you are willing to provide? If someone tried to drop the bomb on you, would you try to catch it, on the off chance that could actually work? |
| Alfred F. Jones:
--- Quote from: rdjuugi Hoshiguma on July 19, 2011, 02:39:17 PM ---You meet a young woman while abroad, and after talking to her for a while, discover that she had been sold into sexual slavery in her youth. How do you help her escape? --- End quote --- Laconic: In a detailed manner. Regular: In large part, it depends on where I have met her-- "abroad" is a rather broad term, after all. If it is someplace where the police are relatively not corrupt and the rule of law is at least mostly respected, then I would see about getting them involved, particularly if it would lead to the arrest of the criminals who have done this. If it is someplace where the police are in the pocket of those who profit from this, calling on several of the advocacy groups for sex trafficking I know of would be a very good idea. Being away for 24 hours would probably be a red light to her 'owner', as it were, that something has gone wrong. If they are smart, they will get away as soon as these 24 hours are over, so this has to be done fast. I would absolutely refuse to leave the girl's side this entire time; anything else would be an open invitation for things to go wrong without me being able to help her. Recording is therefore crucial, in case everything goes wrong and I end up dead or disappeared. Advocacy groups that specialize in such illicit trade tend to move faster than police do, both corrupt and non-corrupt, so I'm going to have to rely on them to get the word out. This young woman is almost certainly not the only one who's getting hurt, and I have zero intention of letting that continue. If possible, find out everything I can about the specific people I am dealing with; ignorance is never useful, and fortune favours the prepared. Afterwards, out of the immediate danger, I would find some way to attack the causes of being sold. It's almost always due to economic collapse at home. Offering an alternative to selling themselves or their children is my idea of deterrence. None of this "onscreen heroics, offscreen ignorance" thing for me. --- Quote from: Squawkers on July 19, 2011, 03:26:36 PM ---What are your stances on pie and cheesecake? --- End quote --- Laconic: Cheeeeeeeeeesecaaaaaaaaaaake. Regular: Pie is good too. But cheeeeeeeeeesecaaaaaaaaaaake is so much better. --- Quote from: Squawkers on July 19, 2011, 03:26:36 PM ---If it weren't for irony, this statement wouldn't be funny. --- End quote --- Laconic: I hated that song. Regular: Had to listen to Alanis Morisette in IB English in order to learn what irony wasn't. Never doing that again. --- Quote from: Squawkers on July 19, 2011, 03:26:36 PM ---You and a close friend are both in the emergency room after being attacked by a serial killer in the alleyway. Luckily, help came before he could finish either of you off, but you are both dangerously low on blood, and the hospital only has enough blood to save one of you. If you had a say in the matter, who would you choose to live? --- End quote --- Laconic: My friend, of course. Regular: That said, a hospital that only has enough blood to save one of us? That's crazy. I'm B+, so any O+ blood would have worked just fine. The hospital must have some serious supply problems if it can only be one of us. They can take my blood once I'm dead, in that case. (I'm certainly not going to have any use for it.) --- Quote from: Squawkers on July 19, 2011, 03:26:36 PM ---Wow, I didn't realize how morbid that was until after I typed it. --- End quote --- Laconic: Hee, just a little. :P --- Quote from: Killer Purvis on July 19, 2011, 09:18:04 PM ---Justify your apparent love of magical girls. --- End quote --- Laconic: Sparkles! Regular: Magical girls are something I've liked since I watched (DiC's butchering of) Sailor Moon as a child. History has (unintentionally and intentionally) taught me a lot of things and has disillusioned me on a lot of them-- first among them that altruism and unconditional love rarely if ever save the world (more often than not they lead to lunacy and butchery, since people like to use those as excuses for savagery), and that strength and purity can never save people if they won't break away from centuries of habits to save themselves. Magical girls reconstruct everything about this and show me that yes, it is possible to break out of that cycle-- or at least to believe in it. And belief creates reality. As cheesy as their stories can be, they still make me dare to hope for something better. --- Quote from: Killer Purvis on July 19, 2011, 09:18:04 PM ---Ibn Khaldun and Basil Davidson walk into the thunderdome. Who walks out, and why? Let us not presume undead or immortality as a cause for the ability to walk in. --- End quote --- Laconic: Davidson. Regular: I like to gush about Ibn Khaldoun as much as anyone else, but Davidson's MI-6 training has got to count for something. --- Quote from: Killer Purvis on July 19, 2011, 09:18:04 PM ---Do you have a Kill Whitey t-shirt? If so, do you think it would fit me? --- End quote --- Laconic: Nah, I'm not really into shirts with logos or brands on them. Prefer stripe patterns. Regular: That said, I imagine that if I were to get one, it would likely be a one-size-fits-all type. --- Quote from: Killer Purvis on July 19, 2011, 09:18:04 PM ---The winner of the prior thunderdome question later enters the Thunderdome with Dr Livingston? Who walks out, and why? --- End quote --- Laconic: Livingston. Regular: Dude had a knack for walking out of situations where death was all but certain. --- Quote from: Killer Purvis on July 19, 2011, 09:18:04 PM ---You are stuck in on a desert island with the rest of the librarians. Who do you choose to eat, and why? --- End quote --- Laconic: Chaore. Regular: Rabbit meat would be a new experience. --- Quote from: Squawkers on July 19, 2011, 09:23:35 PM ---Are you glad this period of questioning is almost over? --- End quote --- Laconic: Kind of. Regular: I honestly like having questions being asked of me, because it's better than letting everyone else come up with their own assumptions of my opinions. I was hoping for more posts than TSO got, though. :< --- Quote from: The Aquatic Colossal on July 19, 2011, 10:13:01 PM ---What are the best and worst parts of being a staffer? Do you ever regret taking the job? --- End quote --- Laconic: To the second, all the damn time. Regular: To the first-- the worst parts are when I get into arguments with the other staffers, since I hate arguments, and the staffers are my friends, after all. (Most of them.) But there is self-loathing involved, too. I have an anti-authoritarian streak a mile wide, and I hate being told what to do. So I hate finding myself in the position of doing that to other people. Additionally, I dislike trusting authority figures, so I understand very well the tendencies of people to dislike and distrust us on that basis. But now I am the staffer who gets to bear the automatic distrust of people I try to work for, no matter what I do. The best parts are being able to tamper with other people's profiles, and being respected as an authority and as a moderator. But these do not nearly make up for the worst parts of the job. --- Quote from: The Aquatic Colossal on July 19, 2011, 10:13:01 PM ---What's your opinion on the current state of the Western Touhou community? Does anything need to change or improve? --- End quote --- Laconic: I think complaining about it does no good. Regular: People who try to force the community to be "better" or to "progress" make me angry like nothing else, because that stance denies that there are people who are working hard in their creative endeavours, infantilizes them, and degrades their efforts. Every time I hear this point of view articulated, even if it comes from friends, I want to slam them in the face with a shovel. I firmly believe in leading by example, so pronouncements from atop a pedestal do no good unless they are willing to live them out. Does anything need to change or improve? A lot of things, but they tend to be about individual people and not about trends. Two of them that are about trends, though: - I would like to destroy the idea that there is only one way to be a canon lover, and that this way is by worshipping at the feet of canon, ignoring ZUN's inconsistencies, and disdaining all works wherein people interpret things differently than ZUN does. I think canon is very interesting and worth reading. I am also very willing to ignore a whole lot of it in order to tell the stories I want to tell, and being called a sellout to fanon is not something I am fond of. -- That being said, a rooting in canon should be where everyone starts. But let's be reasonable about it. There is a whole lot of canon to read, and not all of it is that interesting (CoLA is one gigantic snore for me, for starters). It is also very easy to forget or overlook parts of it, since there is so much content to read or hear. Attacking people for reading parts of it and not others is massively stupid. - Playing the games should be the starter point, but beating them should not be required (the idea of a litmus test to be considered a Touhou fan is also very stupid). Do you like what ZUN has created? Congratulations, you're a fan. Being good or bad at the games is irrelevant. Holding lunatic up as the goal for everyone to strive for is arrogance in the highest degree. This sentiment seems to have gone away over time, though, and thank god for that. - I would like to see the chewing out of everyone who is in a different community than you are. Infighting between the various factions of the WTC is silly to the core, and a waste of time. Just do your own thing. As for improving, I'd like to see the amount of fanworks produced go up, but that can't be changed by my saying so, so I have to go out and do it myself. The last two questions TAC asked are turning into a small essay, so I'm going to post these answers in the meanwhile. (~ '.')~ |
| Tamer Anode/Cathode:
Sorry for throwing you hardball questions, I guess ^^; |
| Aya Squawkermaru:
--- Quote from: Card Captor Sakura ---I hated that song. --- End quote --- Wait, that's a song? I honestly wasn't aware of that. --- Quote from: Card Captor Sakura ---That said, a hospital that only has enough blood to save one of us? That's crazy. I'm B+, so any O+ blood would have worked just fine. The hospital must have some serious supply problems if it can only be one of us. They can take my blood once I'm dead, in that case. (I'm certainly not going to have any use for it.) --- End quote --- It was a rhetorical question. :P Hmm... Well, I can't really think of anything else at the moment, and I was going to give you a break anyway. Have fun with those essays~ |
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