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Entry 23 - Still More Staffers To Go Through - Esifex
Hanzo K.:
Your thoughts on Marshmallow Cheese? (yes, it's exactly what it says on the tin.)
Esifex:
Music for a rainy day
--- Quote from: Killer Purvis on July 22, 2011, 03:22:14 PM --->What about text adventures, eh mac?
>Why am I your favorite?
>What sorts of librarian things do you do?
>What do you do when you encounter a story that is just dreadful? Or one where characters are just used badly?
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>Don't play them
>You're not
>Librarian stuff
>I'm not at liberty to disclose the stories that we all talk about in the Librarian's Lounge and laugh at and poke fun at the writers. That guy who wrote 'Day Planners' should be ashamed of himself, though, I'll tell you that much.
Okay, seriously, though...
>I really don't do text adventures, either parsing them or playing in them.
>Day Planners. That's why.
>I was in charge of converting completed stories into .pdf files that could be read by eReaders, but I almost immediately hit the per-post limit for attachments after like five stories. Otherwise, I just proof-read for people, and when I get the assignment, write summaries for new stories.
>Seriously though that would be mean of me to point out a story and say 'haha, that's just bad!' Although I will tell you what I did once when I found such a bad story; didn't even get further than the first sentence in before I really physically declared 'Good GOD this is terrible!' and backed out of it. I'm not going to tell you which one, though, because no one knows it because I'm not gonna be mean like that to someone who really just needs some improvement. It's not like they're a bad person, but I know that if someone had that reaction to one of my stories when I was getting started, I'd have been heartbroken. So that juicy little bit of gossip stays with me.
--- Quote from: Sakura Kyouko on July 22, 2011, 05:30:37 PM ---What is your opinion of Shakespeare's works?
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I've never actually sat down to read the whole collected works. I'm more of an Edgar Allan Poe, guy, though. I highly recommend The Bells, Annabelle Lee, and... crap, I don't have my massive leather-bound tome handy - I lent it to a friend and she hasn't returned it yet @.@ But Poe wrote out a play similar to Shakespeare's style, but he never finished it. If I get my tome back I'll post it in PSL and possibly write out my own take on how I think it'd end.
--- Quote from: Sakura Kyouko on July 22, 2011, 05:30:37 PM ---If you could go on vacation anywhere, where would you go?
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Just for a vacation? Nonsense. I'd become a vagabond somewhere with nothing to my name but my charm than come back to Florida. But anyways, anywhere? For just a vacation, and assuming I had someone with me who could translate? The actual mountain valley that Hinamizawa is based on, Shirakawa, Gifu.
--- Quote from: Sakura Kyouko on July 22, 2011, 05:30:37 PM ---Out o' curiousity, are there any things you would like to see in White Rose?
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Mecha Utsuho's introduction to the Yatagarasu, though that's just wishful thinking, because the time-frame doesn't mesh up with the Moriya Shrines' arrival yet.
--- Quote from: Rou You Can on July 22, 2011, 07:33:10 PM ---Oh hey, someone took a picture of that time we both hit a major acid trip. :o
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Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.
--- Quote from: Rou You Can on July 22, 2011, 07:33:10 PM ---You said you swim a lot. Why?
As a continuation, have you ever been swimming with dolphins? Apparently, they do that in Florida. If not, do you ever plan to?
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Water calms me down. The only time I don't have anger boiling beneath the surface is if it's raining, my skin is wet, or I'm just outright swimming. It's a very soothing medium for me.
RE: Dolphins; no, I haven't, because it's wicked expensive and you have to make reservations for it because they only allow so many people in a day. I'd like to, though, because dolphins are pretty awesome. They're smart! Occasionally smarter than us! I wonder what sort of empathic sensations I'd get from being around them.
--- Quote from: Rou You Can on July 22, 2011, 07:33:10 PM ---What's the one thing you think you need to improve on in your writing? Productivity is not an answer.
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Word diversity. I take the same phrase or term and run it into the ground without realizing it. Also productivity
--- Quote from: Rou You Can on July 22, 2011, 07:33:10 PM ---Is there a difference between writing for entertainment and writing commercially?
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Yes. Writing for entertainment is writing what you want to read. Writing commercially is writing what someone else tells you to. The trick is to find someone to tell you to write what you want to read.
--- Quote from: Rou You Can on July 22, 2011, 07:33:10 PM ---You have an interest in music. Ever played an instrument yourself?
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Violin, piano, and drums. Very little of all three. I'd love to pick them up and become proficient again, though. I have plans, of sometime down the road, buying a Viola body and a set of Violin and Viola strings for it. You can tune a Viola with Violin strings to sound like a Violin, though it's tricky from what I hear. But knowing how to play both of them would be loads of fun for me. Somewhere in the bottom of my little reptilian brain I wish I could be the next TAM or Marasy. I know it won't happen, but hey, I can dream, can't I?
--- Quote from: Hanzo K. on July 22, 2011, 07:54:04 PM ---Your thoughts on Marshmallow Cheese? (yes, it's exactly what it says on the tin.)
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Is that like Krazee Cheese? The canned stuff that has a nozzel like a whipped-cream can? Because if so, :barf:
If it's cheese-flavored marshmallows, :barf:
If it's marshmallow-flavored cheese, :barf:
Don't get me wrong, though. I like marshmallows and I like cheese. Just not at the same time. I also don't like that crazy processed cheese fluff.
Hanzo K.:
What if it was a marshmallow that looked and tasted exactly like a fine block of Parmesan?
Your preferred cheeses? personally, I'm quite partial of Parmesan myself, but I wont say no to a nice block of pepperjack.
Aya Squawkermaru:
--- Quote from: Hanzo K. on July 22, 2011, 09:30:46 PM ---What if it was a marshmallow that looked and tasted exactly like a fine block of Parmesan?
Your preferred cheeses? personally, I'm quite partial of Parmesan myself, but I wont say no to a nice block of pepperjack.
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You need to be a staffer so I can question your love of cheese.
Anyway, Esifex. When writing, would you say it's accurate that you put your own emotions into the work? (I'm thinking about this because I just finished the first arc of White Rose, and that ending bit... dear god, I almost cried.)
When writing, what would you say is a good balance between emotional drama and comedy?
Suikama:
--- Quote from: Iryan on July 22, 2011, 05:49:20 AM ---* Iryan highfives Esifex
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* Suikama initiates three way (highfive)
Speaking of threeways though...
--- Quote from: Esifex on July 21, 2011, 09:09:01 PM ---With the exception of the on-going battle against my own sex-drive and unbridled anger issues, no. The rest of the fragmentation I've done to my own mind was unpleasant enough - the memory loss, the delicate temperament, and the straight change in personality is not something I intend to intentionally put myself through again. I resist my sex-drive and hormones for personal reasons, that mostly stem from an utter distaste for the people in my generation around me - and while yes, I know that wherever I go, there are GOING to be dumb people who are reckless and treat their bodies with complete irreverence, there is just such a large concentration of them in Florida that I'm actually saddened by it. This may also have something to do with my rage issues - both the self-inflicted sexual frustration and being surrounded by idiots.
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Oh man, I don't want to impose or be too preachy here, but fighting your own sex-drive is not really healthy and it's probably one of the contributing factors to your rage (although you probably already figured that out), and that rage causes you to further repress yourself and so on.
Read this and tell me how much it relates to you.