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| Alfred F. Jones:
--- Quote from: Tengukami on August 14, 2011, 03:45:43 PM ---30 years from now I'll be 70. So, most likely I'll be dancing shirtless on tables to "I Like To Move It" and chugging tequila like it's water in some seedy Mexican cantina. God willing. --- End quote --- I know various places where this could be arranged! What do you look for in nonfiction? Fiction in general? Touhou fanfiction? Conversely, what do you dislike in these? How good are you at photography? |
| Iryan:
What are the 1~10 rules that define your philosophy and general outlook towards life? |
| Tengukami:
--- Quote from: Master Bigode the asdf on August 15, 2011, 03:56:30 AM ---ZUN's original compositions. What do you think of them ? --- End quote --- Musically speaking? I think it varies. Many of his songs are kinda samey; variations of similar themes. But when he does a stand-out track, it's really incredible. His music has made me spellbound (if you'll excuse the pun) during parts of certain stages, such as Stage 6 of MoF or Stage 3 of 10D. Lovely stuff there, and no wonder why so many musicians have done arrangements of his compositions. --- Quote from: Killer Purvis on August 15, 2011, 05:13:39 AM ---How much internet wackiness have you exposed Ammy Jr. to? Related to that, have you had a Leekspin/Nyancat endurance match? --- End quote --- Most of what my daughter sees from the internet is comprised of old cartoons, old Sesame Street, or simple game sites like Boobah Zone. I haven't introduced her to the seedy underbelly of the WWW, but reckon it'll only be a matter of time before she finds that herself. --- Quote from: Sakura Kyouko on August 15, 2011, 09:40:33 AM ---I know various places where this could be arranged! --- End quote --- Me gusto. --- Quote from: Sakura Kyouko on August 15, 2011, 09:40:33 AM ---What do you look for in nonfiction? Fiction in general? Touhou fanfiction? Conversely, what do you dislike in these? --- End quote --- Believe it or not, I prefer nonfiction written by an author with an open agenda. Examples of this would be Underground by Haruki Murakami and Madness Visible by Janine Di Giovanni. Both authors treated their subjects with fairness, but they had clearly taken a side in the matter and their passion for the issues their works touched on shows. I definitely prefer this over flat, lifeless, data-list nonfiction. In fiction, I like literary fiction - stuff that defies genre, plays with reality, uses characters dealing with the line between truth and fantasy. And of course, that there's a living vibrancy that shines through in the language. Genre fiction bores me to tears, so I'm not big on reading fantasy, thrillers or science fiction, which I realize should result in the revoking of my Geek Membership card, but there it is. In Touhou fanfiction, I tend to prefer canonically faithful stories that, within the framework of canon, create a whole new side-story that is at once entirely plausible and also entertaining. I also like being challenged to care about characters that I have no real feelings about, or might even dislike altogether. If someone can imbue their story with the spirit of Gensokyo and keep me reading until the end, the story's a success. What I dislike are hackneyed, uninspired reworkings of themes we've all seen a million times before. --- Quote from: Sakura Kyouko on August 15, 2011, 09:40:33 AM ---How good are you at photography? --- End quote --- Probably average. I haven't taken enough photos to be able to say if I'm good or terrible, really. --- Quote from: Iryan on August 15, 2011, 11:35:19 AM ---What are the 1~10 rules that define your philosophy and general outlook towards life? --- End quote --- I haven't really tried to sum it up before, but the main principles of my life that spring to mind consist mainly of: Be grateful for what you have, assume the best about the motivations of others, work to leave this world better than how you found it, and make the most of this brief time we have on this planet by all of the above. |
| Tamer Anode/Cathode:
What was your first computer? Are you able to regale us with stories of the Apple II and the C64? What was your first exposure to anime, roughly? What motivated you to write fics like Down on the Corner and Permission? Do you ever regret it?' What's this "tragic yuri accident" your user message refers to? |
| Tengukami:
--- Quote from: Tic-TAC-Toe on August 15, 2011, 01:46:19 PM ---What was your first computer? Are you able to regale us with stories of the Apple II and the C64? --- End quote --- My family's first computer was this bizarre desktop thing with a monitor that was yellow text on a black background. It didn't even have a floppy drive, and certainly wasn't using any operating system that I ever heard of then or since. Then in '87 we got a Mac SE. I actually used that thing for 12 years, and it never gave me any trouble. The only reason why I stopped using it was a) the screen was 9" wide, and b) the language was so outdated that if I saved a text file on a floppy and put it in another computer, it was completely unreadable. --- Quote from: Tic-TAC-Toe on August 15, 2011, 01:46:19 PM ---What was your first exposure to anime, roughly? --- End quote --- There were a lot of localized series in the US in the 70s, like Speed Racer, Astro Boy and Battle of the Planets. But the series that really blew my mind was Star Blazers, also known as Space Battleship Yamato. If ever the word "epic" was used correctly, it would be to describe the complex and deeply human story arcs that this series used. I'm not a fan of mecha today, at all, but I can say with confidence that this might even be the best anime series ever made. --- Quote from: Tic-TAC-Toe on August 15, 2011, 01:46:19 PM ---What motivated you to write fics like Down on the Corner and Permission? Do you ever regret it?' --- End quote --- Down On The Corner was my first Touhou fanfic, and was born out of a bunch of us in IRC joking about a picture of Cirno table-humping that someone found on Danbooru. We all started talking about story ideas surrounding this image, and I felt compelled to write it. From there, most of my Touhou fanfics have been comedies, just because they're fun to write. But Permission - the only Touhou erotica I ever did - was written as a result of a conversation in CPMC about what the difference was between porn and erotica. I absolutely don't regret writing either. Down On The Corner was fun, and I think Permission properly illustrates the difference between porn and erotica - an important distinction, I feel, when it comes to fiction. --- Quote from: Tic-TAC-Toe on August 15, 2011, 01:46:19 PM ---What's this "tragic yuri accident" your user message refers to? --- End quote --- Kinzo made a remark in CPMC of some other user dying in a "tragic yuri accident". I thought this was hilarious, and so yeah. Into the user message it went. |
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