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View Poll Results: Favorite Frequenter of the Uni Thread?
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BlackCart! FTW!
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...Marguerite. Is that even a question?
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Taiyo!!!! YGO addict!
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Happy! You're friendly neighborhood insomniac.
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Zaza (Though we haven't seen him lately)
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Pearl!
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fairywaif
Flitting free Girl
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01-09-2011, 02:06 AM
People didn't live that long then, so maybe she wouldn't have gotten the chance to, though.
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sarofset
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01-09-2011, 02:07 AM
superfluous. the first half is anyways. The rest is pretty good. The person who wrote Eragon was only like seventeen from what I was told. It depends on natural talent. Also you need a creative streak, and some experience with the things you're trying to write about. If you've never been hurt, don't write about love. If you've never fought, don't write about fighting. things like that.
I have a good hand at tragedy, because I've been in enough emotional pain that I cried blood. ...Experiences like that tend to change how you think, and write.
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fairywaif
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01-09-2011, 02:23 AM
Eragon...may not be a good example. But let's not talk about that... And I believe he was 19.
I actually don't think you have to have experience with something as long as you can UNDERSTAND what is going on, and see it as if it was happening to you. I mean, no one's ever colonised Mars yet writers have written about the hardships of living there. It just takes empathy, really.
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sarofset
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01-09-2011, 02:28 AM
Yeah, but all of the recent books about colonizing mars have been plainly depressing. There's little actual hardship involved if you know what you're doing. You would need something to create the massive electromagnetic field earth has, (which we still have no good explanation for btw.) in order to hold some kind of real atmosphere. Also algae to create oxygen. Then it's just about getting there. The moon would be harder.
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fairywaif
Flitting free Girl
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01-09-2011, 02:37 AM
I've been reading a lot of Asimov lately. I was thinking of his books when I said that. I think I'm addicted. :lol: But the same applies for many genres and stories. I was just using that as an example. I mean, there's historical fiction, for instance. That's an entire genre of people writing things they can't know about directly.
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ljosberinn
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01-09-2011, 03:07 AM
I've only read one book by Dickens (Hard Times) and I found it hilarious. And not in the way that it's so bad it's funny, it was intended to be funny. Also Pride and Prejudice, which I'm currently in the middle of (and haven't been able to continue for the longest time because of my dissertation *shakes fist*), is so funny. I thought it would be dry and boring because people kept saying that, but I wanted to find out for myself but already in the first few pages I was chuckling to myself. I don't know it it's just a very specific kind of humour, or if people just don't get that it is humour or what..
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fairywaif
Flitting free Girl
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01-09-2011, 03:14 AM
Maybe I should try to read Hard Times then. I read David Copperfield, and it didn't go well. I don't usually read romances in the first place though, so I wouldn't read Pride and Prejudice anyways. I'm glad you're enjoying them, though!
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sarofset
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01-09-2011, 03:52 AM
It's good when you find an author you like. Unfortunately my favorite author of all time is dead. :(
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fairywaif
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01-09-2011, 04:23 AM
That happens. At least Asimov was pretty prolific.
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sarofset
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01-09-2011, 04:45 AM
Indeed. He was really good. I haven't actually read much of his stuff though. He was one of my mom's favorites. She was into Science fiction before most people knew what it was. Like in the fifties and sixties. Most people still thought it was just for nerds, now it's becoming sadly mainstream. Although the good stuff is still only for my people. :)
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fairywaif
Flitting free Girl
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01-09-2011, 05:03 AM
It is becoming main stream, certainly. You just have to look at recent popular books like the Hunger Games. I still think there's a stigma against some of the "Harder" sci-if though.
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sarofset
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01-09-2011, 06:09 AM
Indeed. I like that though. Last time science fiction was really popular you got a lot of really crummy programming and movies, that made no sense, and had poor acting. I like my little nerd bubble. It makes me happy. I mean look what main stream has done to video games. you get crap like (Shudders) farmville.
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fairywaif
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01-09-2011, 06:37 AM
Well, farmville isn't strictly a videogame but I get what you mean. I think it's considered a flash game? Whatever.
I think there's definitely a lot of good things that haven't been mainstreamed yet. Although I am looking forward to the premiere of the Cape tomorrow/today. Superhero action and Summer Glau? Sign me up! Although she may not appear for a few episodes...
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ljosberinn
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01-09-2011, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by fairywaif
Maybe I should try to read Hard Times then. I read David Copperfield, and it didn't go well. I don't usually read romances in the first place though, so I wouldn't read Pride and Prejudice anyways. I'm glad you're enjoying them, though!
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I don't like romances either, I read Pride and Prejudices as a comedy, and it works fine for me. It's filed under satire on wikipedia, and not romance anyway, though most people seem to think it's a romance. It's the same with Wuthering Heights, which people somehow view as OMG romantic! when it's actually a very, very dark and disturbing story about seriously unstable people and how they ruin each other's (and their own) lives. There's seriously nothing romantic about it.
Also, I don't get the whole prejudice for mainstream things. I don't follow what's mainstream or not, and I really couldn't care less whether what I read or watch or listen to is popular among others or not. It's not like the fact that other people like it lessens its value. Sure, there's a lot of crap stuff that is popular, there's also a lot of stuff that is unpopular for a good reason.
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Pearl
Toruk Makto
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01-09-2011, 06:16 PM
I read P&P as a rom-com.
Tom Jones, a few decades earlier, was slightly funny too.
I was able to laugh about the awful Robinson Crusoe by implying sex with goats. (He talks a hell of a lot about goats)
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fairywaif
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01-09-2011, 06:42 PM
Okay, well I do like romantic comedies... (although I feel guilty for doing so :XD) So maybe I'll give it a try...after I whittle down the list of books I've currently gotten out from the library.
I do tend to read what I like, but it often happens that what I read turns out to be popular, because they're good books. I will read books that are slightly less popular too though. I'm currently reading a nonfiction book on asymmetry.
Although I don't know HOW Twilight became popular. I actually read it slightly before it was mega-crazy. Otherwise I wouldn't have read it. I find it rather bland.
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sarofset
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01-09-2011, 07:26 PM
I find it to be pathetic. It's written like bad fan fiction. The main character has no real personality, or defining traits, and every male on earth just falls for her in three seconds. Why would anyone write that way, and why on earth does anyone like it? The primary love interest is an abusive jerk too. Way to go Stephanie for teaching girls it's okay to be treated like crap if you really really like the guy. ugh.
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ljosberinn
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01-10-2011, 12:00 AM
Hehe, I do agree with Twilight, and I did actually read all of them, so I feel entitled to bash them as much as I want. :P They were incredibly funny though, but in that so-bad-it's-good way. Ughhh!
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sarofset
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01-10-2011, 12:23 AM
Like the Conan movies? The acting was so bad that the whole thing (especially the parts that weren't supposed to be) were hilarious.
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Hyena
Cannibal
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01-10-2011, 12:26 AM
It occurs to me that I've been awake for four hours and haven't done anything about my project. And this in itself is a tragedy.
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sarofset
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01-10-2011, 12:33 AM
Do your work woman:illgetu: lol. but seriously you should get on that. :)
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Hyena
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01-10-2011, 12:34 AM
Doing the character bio for Hans right now. I have Garrett and Leonard done already. Hopefully, I'll eventually have all 25 of them with full character profiles. >>
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sarofset
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01-10-2011, 12:36 AM
...you're doing what now? lol.
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Hyena
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01-10-2011, 12:38 AM
I decided that if I was going to have a "meet the cast" page for my webcomic that I might as well have a FULL character bio for each of them rather than just age gender and whatnot. So I'm having all the characters lined up and having their picture link to a full character page.
And then I realized that I have 25 characters.
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sarofset
Jeddak of Helium
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01-10-2011, 12:43 AM
Should be awesome when it's done though. :) and I'm sure your fans will totally love it. You just gotta keep plugging away on it. :)
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