| Top 40's Night in Vancouver |
[10 Nov 2009|11:57am] |
Everytime I go out dancing I end up at a place that plays house/techno/dance music and it can get really repetitive after awhile since I'm not totally into that type of music (once in awhile I can get down to it). I can't always tell from the write-ups on Club Zone the actual music thats going to be played.
I'm wondering, what are the good Top 40's nights in Vancouver (any night, any place, anywhere)? Sometimes all I want is to dance to Lady Gaga and Britney and maybe some hits from the 80s/90s and whatever else is being played on the radio that day.
Thanks!
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[10 Nov 2009|11:00am] |
Dear Player A:
You played a character that I'd initially loved from a film I'd loved when I first saw it. You brought this character into the game, and portrayed him as weak, scared of everything, and completely unable to adapt to change without OH so much angst and drama, for MONTHS on end. I disliked this portrayal, but it had been long enough since I saw his canon that I had no idea the extent to which you ruined him. Then, one day, I watched his canon with a close friend who'd also been avoiding your character, for the same reasons, so that we could remind ourselves why we'd loved this film when we'd seen it, before you'd come along.
Twenty minutes in, we realised that the character, while repressed and awkward and a bit bumbling at times, was in fact cunning, brave, a rather good liar when he had to be, and able to adapt to strange situations when thrust into them unexpectedly, with relatively little fuss. This wouldn't do. I emailed my findings to the other mods, and we emailed you telling you that we'd noticed this, and that he was suspended from play until you filled out a new application for him that demonstrated you had an actual grasp of the character, not the whinging dramabucket you'd been playing. We didn't hear back from you for a couple of days, and because we weren't sure if you'd decide to flounce or stay, we told you we were TEMPORARILY removing him from the cast list since we'd been updating it anyway, and the moment we got your re-written application, he'd be back on and you could continue playing.
So WHY OH WHY must you then IMMEDIATELY go bemoan to your friends about how we "kicked [character] out of the game"? And refrain from mentioning until pressed that you were "allowed" (you WERE encouraged, not allowed, but whatever) to re-app him when your friends got defensive on your behalf?
I'd thought you were a decent enough person who wasn't the best at characterization before. Now I just think you're sort of a dick.
Glad you never sent that re-written app in,
Baudy
Dear (potential) Player B:
Okay, here's a hint: When you publicly play a character basically acting the exact OPPOSITE of everything that's provided in canon, you may not want to mention you're the person who plays them when you app to a game that's already "kicked your friend out" due to characterization issues. It wouldn't have made a difference, we knew who you were regardless, but STILL. Playing a character who was the future's answer to a secret agent, was sent to sex, drug, alcohol, AND murder rehab (and relapsed from ALL OF THEM), who is very much a "I will sex any and all comers, one at a time or all at once!" sort of person and seems to have no real moral compass on his own, and making this character MARRY some chick, stop killing and things just 'cause she wanted him to, and making him a proud daddy who works for a FLORIST or something like that? That's not IC. That's nowhere in the same HEMISPHERE of IC, unless there was, I dunno, BRAIN DAMAGE involved. If it's AU, and you can make me believe it with slight differences in temperament and personality, fine, but it was CANON, and that shit is not on.
Okay, fine, you app, fine. I'll read it. The first thing I notice? You mention you're making him a new journal. You haven't made it YET, but you give us the username that you'll be giving him. Just because I'm a pedant sometimes, I want to make sure that it's even AVAILABLE. Guess what? It's NOT. In fact, it's been taken since 2005. But, okay, that alone is not enough to deny your application with any sort of dignity. How about the rest of it? The appearance and personality are mind-numbing, the history is so poorly written I have very little idea what's going on, and the writing sample is bad enough to cause me to make faces that made my girlfriend laughed hysterically.
I applaud you for not complaining when we denied your application. But, on a whim, I went to your public journal a few days later to see if you'd pitched a fit - mostly out of morbid curiosity, and so I could laugh. And what do I find? You've applied with this character to THREE "srs bsnss" RPs, and ALL THREE denied your applications. You said sarcastically that there must be something wrong with the way you RP, but I'd say that actually YES THERE MUST BE. So you will stick with games that don't require you to fill out an application or anything stupid like that. Heh. Okay. Please do. That way, I'll never have to risk running into you and your HORRIFICALLY BASTARDIZED CHARACTER.
Laughed my ass off when I got the app, and harder when I denied it,
Baudy
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| A rant on Mary Sues |
[11 Nov 2009|05:13am] |
Dear you,
I have a dare for you. Can you play a single character who isn't an attractive and clumsily cute young girl? From a rich background but kicked out by her father for reasons undisclosed? Who gets mad OOC and starts flaming people if the world doesn't immediately begin to revolve around her? Because that describes every character you've written for the past five years. I went back and checked. FFS you made a gorgeously attractive and clumsily cute Space Marine. A Dark Angels Space Marine. Completely unironically. You simply copy and paste your old character in, change the names around and go to without paying any attention to the setting or plot.
Also, how dare you bully GMs. How dare you threaten to flounce off if the group votes for going down one path and your lone dissenting vote is overruled. How dare you spam my PM box and IM saying that I'm a shitty GM because I wouldn't let you RP smut in a PG-13 forum. How dare you expect your Ctrl+V Self-insert Mary Sue to be given better treatment by the GM because "we're totally old friends". No we're not. I don't like you, and I never really did.
As Renee Decartes so eloquently put it in his moving philosophical treatise À la recherche du temps perdu: Fuck you buddy.
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| engaging liberal political views...liberal views engaged |
[10 Nov 2009|10:35am] |
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right...i was going to wait until friday, but i'm not entirely sure if that'll leave enough time for this. this is charity drive specific information.
Q1: are you an american?
- If YES proceed to Q2.
- If NO this does not apply to you, sorry guys.
Q2: do you support the idea of everyone being able to see a doctor when they need to regardless of how poor they are?
- If YES, proceed further.
- If NO, i'm not quite sure why you're watching a charity drive.
right now the Health Care Bill is being put to the senate. this bill will make it so america, like many other countries in the world including japan and canada, has national health care. some people are leery of this, but i've never heard a canadian complain and i never had an issue with waiting to see a doctor or get medicine in japan. these systems work, honestly.
right now, 47 million people are uninsured in america. that means 47 million people can't get medical attention if they need it, because they can't afford it. that is the population of south africa. that is the population of iran. that's an entire country's worth of people unable to see a doctor. i dunno about you, but that seems pretty lousy. oh, and in addition to that? 25 million people are under insured. they can't get the proper medical attention. that's the population of saudi arabia, unable to get what they need at a doctor's.
and i think that's absolutely unforgivable, in a country as powerful and well off (comparatively) as the USA.
the health care bill will provide 96% of americans with affordable, real, functional health care. if you're not worried about health insurance right now, either you've got the money for private insurance in the middle of a depression (and should be considering using it to help others...) or you're still under your parents' health insurance. eventually, you won't qualify to be under your parents' insurance. you'll want to go to the doctor, and realize just how expensive it is without insurance. so you can either be poor and sick, or rich and exclusive.
or, you can write to your senators.
we live in a very cool age where that's extremely easy to do. it takes you two seconds to write to your senators and say "i live in this state, and i want you to vote to allow the health care bill." okay, it might take you three seconds if you want to spell check it or get detailed in your reasons.
so what does this have to do with the charity drive?
the charity drive by nature is to help people who don't have the means to help themselves. affordable health care is a BIG help.
if you write to your senators, it will count as 5$ per senator in the charity drive to whatever side you want.
you can encourage others to write to senators too. i'd appriciate a screencap of your letter, or at least a copy-paste of it and who your senators are.
just please be sure of the following things
- do not swear at your senators. it should go without saying, but this is the internet.
- do spell check.
- do not put in a fake name, and do not spam them with 50 fake identities. use your real name, and be honest.
regardless of if the bill gets passed or not, i'd like to be able to say that we have done our part trying to get it passed. i've been saying it for years, but one vote does make a difference. one letter to a senator can make a difference too. some senators won't listen to this no matter what, but the point is that we can try to make a difference, regardless of the odds.
charity comes in many forms.
Here's what we can do to change the world right now, to a better ride:
Take all that money we spent on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and WE CAN EXPLORE SPACE, TOGETHER, BOTH INNER AND OUTER, forever ... in peace.
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[10 Nov 2009|08:30am] |
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| where do we go from there? |
[09 Nov 2009|10:48pm] |
I can't sleep.
I just sat in the bathtub for two hours reading Shopaholic Takes Manhattan. The protagonist's life stresses me out. I started reading it in the beginning to get an insight into my mother. She loves the whole series. I continue reading because its an easy escape into an even more dysfunctional life than mine.
I came home sick an hour early from work today. I'm rationalizing that it was bad tofu, but I think its probably stress. I can't stop thinking. I feel like I'm going to puke. I have no idea what's happening in my life right now.
I wake up, I attempt to create some order to my surroundings, I go to work, I attempt to create some structure to my program, I come home, I sleep. I don't feel like I'm winning.
I just want to cry. I know its probably because I have my period right now even though I feel like I'm pregnant. Everything feels off. I don't feel like I'm in control of anything anymore. I'm trying to tell myself that everything will be fine and that I should just keep doing what I'm doing until it works itself out. So I vent to livejournal and continue to stare at the ceiling in the dark until I fall asleep thinking about ways I could be doing things better.
I try until I can't try or until I rationalize that trying isn't good for me.
If I'm not good at this job, what will I be good at? What will I enjoy?
I feel like I should eat something. The nausea isn't helping. I think I'll stay up a bit longer, have some cereal, and watch something on streaming online tv.
I have to work early in the morning, supervising a street shift for a client I haven't worked in months. I wanted street shifts to make myself less stressed. At what point do I just admit that I can't do this?
I can't get to sleep.
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| Movers? |
[09 Nov 2009|08:58pm] |
Hi
Im moving soon, not far, and I need some help moving. Does anyone know of any reputable movers in the city? Im down town and not moving far, anyone?
Thank you!
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| Rantyrantrant |
[09 Nov 2009|10:57pm] |
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Seriously. You guys talk about being the top game of your genre. Stop being so friggin' clique-y. You've got players who are more than willing to play small parts, but you have to INCLUDE them.
#1 - If you want to play a canon, make them canon. Don't fudge with them, because you don't like something about their history/persona. It's NOT an AU game.
#2 Stop with the same people always being in the drama. Your character does not need to be the one shot/lost/kidnapped/tortured/etc every single plot line. REALLY. People will still like them. How about you let some of the other players get a little of the drama in, let them develop their characters more. The more developed and faceted a character, the more possible avenues of RP!
#3 If you just feel you aren't getting ENOUGH attention, and your character isn't feeling 'Speshul' anymore? At least make the drama workable. Not something that A) You think of and decide it'll be fun! B) Would get anyone else killed, but ohnoyerspeshul! C) makes no linear sense with your character's previous actions at all, or D) Would get any other character in serious trouble, but again you are a speshul snowflake, and you just float above it all!
#4 Pay attention to the plot's AREA. Knowing WHERE you are, and how the landscape is set up, is a good thing.
#5 Don't offer plot spots/RP up on general, and then wimp out, because you didn't get your BFF's response first. If you're only playing with one person 95% of the time or more, with a group of well over 20 players? Maybe you should make your own private RP. Just a thought. I understand having someone you like to play with a lot, someone you prefer over anyone else. *I* have someone like that. Guess what? We have our own RP on the side for that.
#6 Drama is GOOD. Drama can be FUN. OVERDRAMATIZING is bad, okay? Taking things one step over the line happens. Three giant leaps over? Shouldn't.
#7 When you ask for RP, and have it offered to you? Don't just completely wuss out and ignore the person. A polite 'No thank you, I don't think that scene would work very well." is an amazing thing. Or discuss if the person has another character that could possibly interact in a way more fitting your mood!
#8 Don't cut someone else off, who's trying to RP with you, just to go RP what you'd LIKE to be your OTP. It's rude. People besides your RP BFF have feelings too.
Just a list of simple rules to RP by.
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| Hey New Players |
[09 Nov 2009|07:47pm] |
There is a difference between cliquey players, and players who get bored and therefore stick to the people they know and trust are going to be reliable.
You can't really sit on your ass, waiting for plots and scenes to fall in your lap, and then call the rest of the cast cliquey because they aren't falling over themselves to play with you. Yes, admittedly, there should be an effort made to reach out to new players and it sucks when it doesn't happen, but at some point you've really got to meet people half-way and put yourself out there.
If people shun your attempts, then by all means, call them cliquey. But they're like spiders - they're more afraid of you than you are of them. Make an attempt first.
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| HOW did you manage to scare HER off? |
[09 Nov 2009|09:24pm] |
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I have to take my hat off to you, dude. Seriously.
This character of mine is the sweetest, fluffiest, most adorable person on earth. She believes in love at first sight, love conquers all, love is good in any form and she cries when someone has to kill a fucking ZOMBIE to protect her. She was betrothed to a vampire from the Nosferatu clan, despite being a Toreador, and is so fucking naive that she ran all the way from France to where she is now, JUST because she honestly believed he wanted her to. She wears pink and white in the World of Darkness, writes poetry and loves flowers.
...how the FUCK did you manage to scare her OFF?
Kudos, my friend. Kudos. Not only have you been stalking my characters, trying to get one of them- ANY of them- to sleep with yours, but you pull this new character out of your 'vault,' throw him into circulation, and instantly find a reason for him to be attracted to her.
He had a lover. Right.
Another Toreador. Okay.
With blue eyes. ...
And rose-red hair. -.-
...who sang...
And whose name is *remarkably* similar to my character's name.
...okay, I even understand where that's coming from. Desperately seeking an IC excuse to chase my poor, sweet, innocent little virginal vampire halfway across the city, hoping to seduce her. Gotcha. Fine. Whatever.
What *really* puzzles me is that you somehow thought telling me OOC that your character really had a 'thing' for her was going to stop the plotline she was ALREADY in. Or that you somehow thought your character telling her that she resembled the dead lover he 'can't let go of' was going to make her leap into your arms. Yes, she's so sweet she's given half the vampires on the game cavities. Does that mean she's stupid? No. No woman wants to believe she's being used as a replacement for a woman who died. Especially not when the new woman in question is already being blood-bound to another vampire, who has a much greater attraction for her than yours!!! Forcing her to dance with you, hanging onto her when she's trying to get some personal space, and tracking her back to her home... NOT the way to go, seriously.
And then you complain at me OOC when I kindly give you the heads-up that she won't be around for a while because of the plotline she'd been involved in BEFORE you showed up. ...excuse me? No. I think not. Take your libido, go buy a few toys from Eros and let the drama calm the fuck down. You are two seconds from getting slaughtered, and it won't be my character that does it. There are many other people here who are losing their patience with you, and they're more violent than she is.
(And the scary thing? This is the same person I posted about before. *facedesk* I'm too nice. I need to stop playing with this jackass.)
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| Please read my posts before replying to them. |
[09 Nov 2009|09:10pm] |
I seem to be having an uncanny amount of sucks this month. Which is -odd-, since I'm not RPing near as much. Most of them aren't postworthy. This one is from friday, and it didn't occur to me to post it until now.
Dear person with the ditsy mage,
When I set a scene with my character five or six feet underwater (and said that in pretty much those exact words within the post as well as a lot of other underwater description)... Having your character come up and tap him on the shoulder as though the rock he's laying on is on land is a bit... Odd. The fact that your post was posted not even three minutes after mine (these are long multi-paragraph posts) makes me think that you didn't even read my post and just wrote yours ahead of time. The fact that you were confused when I asked you if she'd gone into the water with a spell so that she could talk or something just makes it even worse.
You were really embarrassed once you realized that my character wasn't even in armsreach of the surface (despite us having planned this all out the day before), but please to be reading my posts before you respond to them. It's not a race, and I was studying so it's not like I was going to reply quickly anyways.
Love,
The person with the merboy
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| fanmixish |
[09 Nov 2009|09:36pm] |
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I want very much to make a fanmix of some sort, but I can never compile enough songs to make a decent one. Right now I have three in the works: ones for River, Aerith, and... Aerith/Sephiroth because I'm weird. However, each only have about three songs. Iunno. I think fanmixes are so nifty. I downloaded an amazing Malcolm Reynolds one a while back.
Also...
I forget. :O
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| On gender and sexuality:: |
[09 Nov 2009|05:11pm] |
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Okay, look. I might have an ambiguous sexuality and gender identification. This does not mean that ALL of my characters do, as well. I like pushing boundaries, and my characters often reflect it- but do NOT try to tie my own gender into it.
Character A is asexual. He is not aromantic- he has had a relationship (with one of your characters, nonetheless) and has nearly forced himself to have sex to please them. An attempt to try and 'normalize' someone who has a differing sexuality? Or just an excuse to write more porn?
Character B is a straight male. He just happens to be a clefable (A la pokemon). A large pink fairy is bound to get mistaken for a female some time or another.
Character C was abused and decided it would be easier to live as a man. He is non-op, meaning he still has hidden girlie-bits, but lives in a masculine role. He is not a "true" transman, but lives as one anyway.
Characters D and E you never even see, why does it matter to you that they're hermaphroditic in the realm of a pure-fantasy RP?
Character F is a normal man. He just has a low libido. He has repressed memories of killing his sickly wife (props if you can tell who I speak of) and probably has supressed his sexual side for quite some time, to the point of arguably not needing it as much. (Note: AU. No monsters obsessed with rape here. :c)
In other words, lay off. You tend to say 'oh, ANOTHER?' like it's such a bad thing. I think that, when handled well, having different characters can bring some good things. Hun, we're in a lesbian relationship. We're already discriminated against- don't redirect the 'hate' towards RP characters.
It's not that you're a bad RPer, it's just... God. Some things you do get on my nerves. XD I love you, but I just needed a rant.
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