Stream
"Heh. 'E-y-e?' That's 'ewe.'"
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Post by Stream on Aug 28, 2017 4:03:34 GMT -5
Haha hello school has been taking up much of my time sorry ;3; also if my wording is awkward it's because I'm tired ^^'
About the graphic car crash videos--I asked my parents about that, and they said that people in the US are only ever shown the videos if they get a ticket. So... that's a relief for me! I prefer our system. Now I have more of an incentive to not suck at driving! I am determined to not watch people get hit by cars. And to not hit people with a car myself. Too bad Canada doesn't have our system... ;_; I feel bad for you, Fuzzy.
Ha, that essay writing strategy sounds excellent. I might just use it next time I don't know what I'm writing about! Or maybe I'll forget all about it and be too busy stressing out to write a single word idk lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wut, why would teenagers not know what a VHS or a flip phone or anything else you mentioned are? My family still has plenty of VHS videos (and a VHS lol). I remember watching Pokemon episodes/movies and Disney movies when I was much younger (around, like, three years old) on the VHS. Also, my mom used a flip phone for the longest time. Then I think it broke or something? I forget. My point is, I don't think teenagers are so ignorant as to not know what simple things like those are! Seriously adults lol what
Haha I have no idea what you guys are talking about!! Guess I need to watch that Spiderman movie lol
Oh, by the way, I'm learning Spanish for school. Yay! Not even being sarcastic with that "yay," seriously. Learning other languages is exciting for me. Also apparently multilingual people get paid more lololol. One problem, though: I can tell that Vs are gonna mess me up good. ,XD Also I very desperately hope I won't have to write a paper in Spanish lol please papers in English are bad enough
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Aug 28, 2017 12:17:28 GMT -5
Hi Stream! I haven't gone back to school quite yet, but good luck.
I guess that technically I don't need to take the course, and I can walk in right now and take my driver's test and if I pass I get my licence, but taking the course means I get a 10% discount on insurance, I think? Either way I am done the online portion of the course and just need to get through my lessons, sigh. Most recently I went on a road that was 100km/h (which I believe is just over 60 miles per hour?) and it was pretty terrifying, haha. I still don't have a very good judge of direction or space/time perception, which are both things you kind of need to drive.
My usual essay writing strategy is to write out body paragraphs first and leave introductions and conclusions for the end, because those both are awful, and you'll write a better introduction/conclusion if you know what your essay is about. I tend to switch my focus part way through. And yeah, a large vocabulary will help lots. If nothing else, at least you can get marks on the vocabulary/spelling and grammar/sentence structure parts since those are pretty objective.
My first phone was a flip phone! I pretty much never used it, but I did have it. I don't have a VHS player anymore but I remember watching movies on it all the time.
You should watch the movie, it's very good!
Ooh, that sounds nice! I've recently been regretting dropping out of French back in junior high school. (I think I would have regretted it if I stayed-- back in junior high French took up two options slots which meant, combined with band, I would have only had one other option, which would have been awful.) (Also I should clarify just in case: junior high is grades 7-9, so it's a little different from middle school.) Since Canada is officially bilingual we had to sit through French classes for three years in grades 4-6, but then I took an extra year in grade 7, and I really disliked the teacher so I quit. I wish I knew French now, though, because it would be very cool. French is a nice language and I want to brag about being multilingual. I don't know much about Spanish, but I'm pretty sure that would be more useful in the States than French, haha. Good luck with it!
Also, Stream, I finally found the time to watch the first two chapters of Danganronpa 3! (Well, watched the first, read a translation of the second.) I'm starting to go back into it again. And I definitely should not have watched this when I was thirteen, oh no, a lot of jokes went over my head and I'm sure a few still are. But I still love the plot! What's really awful is that there's a translation of everything except for chapter 3, which is really annoying. While looking for the translation I learned who died in chapter 3. Aaaah.
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Aug 29, 2017 21:58:56 GMT -5
If either of you are in the area that hurricane is hitting, I hope you're alright! It sounds really horrible.
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Post by αυяσяα ησx on Aug 31, 2017 0:57:38 GMT -5
Don't worry, I'm perfectly safe! My heart goes out to everybody that is in that area, though.
Haha, good luck. The insurance is a good thing though! I could see how that would be terrifying. I have the issue of I hate going slow, so I'd probably end up terrified while still being like "but I want to pass the speed limit." One day, I will finally take driver's ed, but evidently, today is not that day.... (I'll probably take the class in January idk)
I usually have some sort of plan for essays, but those plans are scrapped because apparently I am incapable of doing anything out of order. I always need to write the intro first, body paragraphs second, and the conclusion last and honestly, I don't know why. It's the same with writing stories even though I have so many things plotted out. Luckily, I usually get good points for grammar.
Spiderman: Homecoming is an amazing movie and I love Tom Holland and Zendaya and that is all I have to say to attempt to get you to watch it.
I dropped out of Japanese because I just didn't have the time for it in my new schedule. ^^' I'll probably pick it back up again later, but I'm trying to deal with all of my other credits first, and luckily since I'm going to the college rather than the high school, I won't have to deal with the same teacher EVER AGAIN. Dear god I hated my Japanese teacher and I had to deal with him and the same class for three years. But I'm still not sure if I'll keep taking Japanese, because I don't really want to deal with studying and taking a test to find out what level of Japanese I even am.
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Sept 1, 2017 21:56:19 GMT -5
I'm glad to hear you're alright! That hurricane sounds absolutely awful.
Driving is going a lot better than I thought it would, honestly. I was afraid I'd be missing crucial things all the time. I haven't gotten into any situations where there might be danger yet, so I don't know how well I'll hold up...
I always write stories beginning to end because otherwise I'll just skip over the boring parts and get too lazy to do them, haha. With essays I can never write the introduction first. I used to get really stumped before I realized I can just skip it.
Bad teachers can always ruin a class for you, especially when they're the only one in the subject. I think my younger cousin is trying to learn some Japanese from an app-- he knew a few basic phrases but I don't know how much further he got from that. My grandma taught me how to count to ten in Japanese but I forgot some of them? I think I can count to eight but I'm probably mixing up the numbers. Learning new languages is difficult, especially when they're in a different alphabet, so it's pretty great that you went as long as you did in that course.
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Post by αυяσяα ησx on Sept 3, 2017 19:49:49 GMT -5
I think driving is about a whole lot of unnecessary information that nobody actually remembers. ^^' You're doing well though! I don't think you'll find yourself in any hard situations immediately.
Japanese is confusing anyway, haha. It's probably best to learn in a class because apps don't always help with like, casual Japanese and whatnot. Learning new languages is fun, but soooo hard. Speaking of which, I want to learn sign language and morse code, haha. I'm too lazy to learn on my own though, so maybe I'll take a class in college idk.
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Sept 3, 2017 20:48:55 GMT -5
There's a lot of unnecessary information such as "how far must you be from the curb when doing x" which is really annoying because why would you remember numbers and also how am I supposed to tell how far a meter is?? Should I step out of the car and measure?? Hopefully I never find myself in any tricky situations, haha, and if I do then hopefully I'll get out of it with minimal damage.
It does seem like a very confusing language based on my very brief experience with it. Two of my friends know a bit of sign language, and it's very cool! It'd be very useful to learn as well. And yeah, I'm way too lazy to learn languages on my own as well.
Um... in other news, I'm starting to plan out my story for NaNoWriMo this year, since the earlier a start I get on it, the better. It's difficult because I don't know what my brain will be deciding to focus on for the next three months, so I just came up with this idea (which is a different one than I planned to do earlier) and I don't know how well it will be going.
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Post by αυяσяα ησx on Sept 3, 2017 23:34:49 GMT -5
Nobody listens to any of that lolol. I'm pretty sure driver's ed is only hard because they try to cram information that nobody uses or even remembers. It's all pretty straightforward otherwise (at least, I would think???? Idk, it doesn't seem like it would be all that complicated if they didn't give you all these things to study that you'll later forget.
If you need someone to bounce ideas off of, I am (tentatively, because I'm so on and off these days) here to listen! I never participate in NaNoWriMo so it would be cool to see how your process is for it. And if you need ideas, I'm also here to provide! ^.^ What do you normally like to write about anyway? I tend to write about romance, haha.
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Sept 4, 2017 17:16:31 GMT -5
Yeah I paid about zero attention to it during my online course, but sometimes my driving instructor will ask me approximately how far away I should be from the car in front of me and I can never respond. I can't recall random numbers when I'm trying to focus on not crashing a car! And yeah, otherwise, it's pretty straightforward. As long as you know where you're going (or have someone in the car who does, haha) it's pretty easy. As long as nobody else breaks the rules, that is, which hasn't happened to me all that often.
My process is usually first "dump all my thoughts about the story into a word document" which usually covers a vague idea of what I want the plot to do, what characters I want to exist and what role I want them to play, the climax of the story, and the ending. It's usually just whatever I have so far, though, and I do it all in one sitting so I can focus on the story and get all my stuff down. I haven't done a lot of planning on lots of stories so my process is still changing. Then I organize it more or less into chronological order, fill in any gaps, and from there, figure out where the chapters are and what I want to happen, in detail. I try to plan in large chunks so I can focus on the story and not get distracted by doing something else half the time. For this story I wanted to do more of a "space drama" type of thing, and I borrowed characters from another story I completely abandoned because I am too lazy to come up with new names. Still working out the details of the main plot, but I'll get there eventually.
I usually write about... not romance. I am incapable of writing romance and I do not get it at all, haha. I've tried but it just seemed very awkward and I've decided "well I guess they're better off as friends!" pretty much every single time. Either that, or it's been "okay I know they should be in a romantic relationship but I won't actually make them do any romantic things" which is really not all that great, but it's the best I can do for now. I mostly write fantasy, which I love, because I love magic and swords. This thing I'm trying for NaNo this year is more sci-fi, but it still retains a lot of the stuff I like about fantasy epics except with technology instead of magic and swords.
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Post by αυяσяα ησx on Sept 4, 2017 18:32:16 GMT -5
It sounds like driver's ed has too much math and technicalities T.T Ugh I really need to get around to taking driver's ed, but I don't have the patience for learning things I know I won't use later. Actually, how do driving instructors even remember this stuff in the first place???
My process is like, "Okay, I have a type of character I want to utilize, but no actual character and no plot in mind, so I'll start writing and see what happens." I pretty much just improvise everything I write until I have some sort of idea what I want to do. I started working on this one project the other day except I had no idea where I was going with it. I just had this one character that I really wanted to write about. I still have a very vague idea of what's going on, haha.
I don't usually deal with sci-fi. It's usually all lost on me, and even Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy only held my interest for like three books. Idk how I manage to write romance even though I've never been in a relationship or anything. Fantasy is the best though! I really love fantasy novels. So I usually end up mixing romance with fantasy, but actually, my stories are pretty much about building different kinds of relationships. I have more character-driven stories than plot-driven haha. Good luck with the sci-fi thing! It seems quite complicated ^^'
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Sept 4, 2017 19:46:21 GMT -5
I'm sure none of it really matters when you are actually driving. Like "make sure you are at least a meter away from the car next to you" like... do I look like I can measure distance just by looking? I'm really bad with judging distance so, no, I'm not going to ensure I am maintaining a following distance of x amount of meters. I'd rather focus on the road so I don't hit anything.
I usually write character-driven stories as well! Most of this story I'm working on now is focused on this one character with complicated morals and stuff. The plot is pretty weak in most of my stories because I'm too focused on the character development/relationships and things like that. Most of my interest in this current story is with characters that have a very black and white set of ideals and will do anything to uphold it. So far for this character I think I will make it so he wants to start a major war between two superpowered space empires in order to force advancements in technology which will, (as he believes through some backwards thought processes that he has), make society stronger.
My sci-fi story won't be too complicated, mostly because I do not have the energy or the time to actually flesh everything out properly, haha. There's at least one weird cosmic energy that I need to figure out, and a whole bunch of stuff with planets and technology, but hopefully it won't be too complex. (I still haven't read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, although I intend to, at some point, some day.) I've never been in a romantic relationship or had any sort of romantic interest at all, and the concept is entirely lost on me, so writing romance is like pulling teeth. I still plan on writing an actual fantasy epic at some point in my life, which I have partially planned out, but don't plan to actually start until I know more of what I'm doing and have more practice, because as of right now, I intend that to be the thing I finally publish and don't want it to be below my standards.
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Post by αυяσяα ησx on Sept 5, 2017 0:17:07 GMT -5
Nice nice! I'm actually really intrigued by character development, so, while that is really backwards logic, that sounds interesting! And I love reading about the morality issues that characters go through. A lot of my stories involve characters with black and white morals dealing with characters with dubious morals. It's interesting to see how those clash. (I, myself, have really dubious, grey morals haha) I also just really like seeing characters grow as people and beginning to understand themselves and others.
Yeah I wouldn't have the energy to look up all that technical talk. I read sci-fi sometimes and there's a bunch of big words that I don't understand and I'm just like "lol what." I space out while reading those and I just can't understand how anyone can understand all that. That's probably why I was never interested in Star Wars and Star Trek too, haha.
I've never had any sort of romantic interest either, but somehow I just became really good at writing romance? Idk it's weird. But fantasy is really cool, so I'm rooting for you!
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Sept 6, 2017 17:44:17 GMT -5
I love working with character development, so lots of my problems involve coming up with a plot that actually allows them to develop in the ways I want them to, haha. The best part of characters with black and white morals is that you can always get them into a situation where those morals have to come into question, and they'll either have to break them, or stick with them beyond the point is rational, and both of those are very interesting to explore. I really want to work on stuff like that more so hopefully this story will be a good opportunity to do that.
If I'm really invested in a series, I'll look up all the intricate world details (kind of like Tolkien, I know far more about Tolkien than I should) but otherwise it's just tedious. I also generally don't have the energy to create all that worldbuilding stuff, haha. You're lucky to be good at writing romance! I have had to ruin a bunch of characters where I knew it would be much better if they were in a romantic relationship but was just unable to bring myself to write it. Fantasy is super cool! There are a handful of problems with the genre in general-- excruciating lack of diversity being a very key one of them-- but fantasy is easily the best way to not have to deal with reality for a while.
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Post by αυяσяα ησx on Sept 13, 2017 21:11:52 GMT -5
Black and white morals can be both interesting and incredibly frustrating. Considering how morally grey I am, I have no patience for people with black and white morals who refuse to bend. (For example, I find Batman and Superman very frustrating because they have very set rules of "no killing, not even the worst of the worst" while I admire Wonder Woman for accepting that sometimes, things must be done that aren't always the easiest choice. I still love them all though, haha) My plots always end up soooo weak because I'm like "this character's entire story arc is about them finding a family of choice and growing into their skin but there should probably also be something going on in ummm..."
I spent a looot of time worldbuilding, but only when it's magic. I can make my way through magic since it's basically pretty open, but looking up magical creatures and the lore behind them is tedious. As for looking into other world details, I don't spend a lot of time on them but I tend to know a lot simply because I spend a lot of time just idly scrolling through information on the internet by complete accident. I think one of the reasons I'm so good at romance is because I view it as friendship that's stronger than friendship and has more adjectives and socially acceptable displays of affection. Of course, my friends are very cuddly and open, so my perception of friendship vs romance can sometimes get a little skewed because I'm like "wait, did I accidentally put these characters into a relationship according to other people's standards?"
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Sept 28, 2017 18:03:10 GMT -5
Hi! Sorry for not responding for a very long time. I really don't have much of an excuse other than school's been tiring me out so much I don't have much energy to reply.
I love how frustrating black and white morals can be, especially if you can get characters to acknowledge that they're being irrational and stick with them anyways. My plots are pretty weak as well. My major project of the year was pretty weak in terms of plot because it was mostly me playing with weird settings and symbolism and stuff like that. I'm trying to work on improving it, but I've heard that characters are the most important part of a story anyways, and sometimes you can get away with "not a lot of plot" if your characters are strong enough.
I would never have the patience to look up lore. I'd rather just come up with all the stuff by myself. I'm borrowing some elements and stuff from mythology in what I'm currently calling my "epic fantasy saga" that I hope to write some day, but I mostly try to make it my own because there are lots of limits that I'd have to pay attention to and I don't want to do that. I think that's probably the best explanation of romance I've heard so far. I've tried to get friends to explain it to me but it made absolutely no sense, haha. My friends are pretty cuddly, but I personally can't stand physical affection (like not even hugs except for in rare instances) so I can't say I've ever had that problem. There have been times where I've had characters and went "this relationship would be much better and more complex if there was romantic attraction somewhere in there" (since the one thing I do understand is that people do really ridiculous things for romance) but I've never had the ability to properly do that.
Here was my day today: I check my grades online and discover I got 40% on a reading comprehension test. Naturally, I'm freaking out all morning. At lunch I check in with my teacher and get the nice condescending smile and a practice booklet while I'm trying to not burst into tears. This is nearly a 50% drop from the initial reading comprehension test and I have no idea where I went wrong.
I get home today and see an email from my teacher saying that there was a mistake and that I (and two of my classmates) had received the booklet for the grade eleven's reading comprehension test by accident. I'm a little frustrated but I'm just so relieved that it makes up for it.
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Stream
"Heh. 'E-y-e?' That's 'ewe.'"
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Post by Stream on Oct 10, 2017 17:26:57 GMT -5
UHH HI IT'S BEEN LIKE TWO MONTHS I'M SORRY ;-; I need to fix my priorities...
I was doing so well this school semester with my schedule and getting stuff done in time, but then my literature teacher assigned a short story and everything went to crap. I spent the majority of my time stressing out and having no ideas and getting behind in everything again. So far I've written a small story outline and half of the beginning, and it was due, like, two or three weeks ago haha kill me. Maybe I'll share it with you guys when I'm done with it if it turns out good. My mom has been rather irritated that it's not done yet. "Why aren't you done yet?" says she. "'Cause I can't write," says I. "But everything else you've written has been great," says she. "What, my unfinished, unplanned, awkward, ripoff-of-other-people's-work fanfictions? lol no they be absolute trash," says I. Anyway, with the story in writing, I feel like I need to add more details, but considering the teacher said she wouldn't read the ones that are more than, I dunno, three or four pages, I'm trying to keep it as short as possible. What I'm trying to write about is some kid who finds a stray cat and is like "HEY MOM CAN I KEEP IT" and the mom's like "lol no you allergic fool also we have no room for cat" and she's like "whatever I'm keeping it anyway" behind her parents' backs and tells a bunch of lies to cover it up but her lies get found out and stuff. That was the easiest premise I could come up with, but I'm still having trouble. Whatever, it's better than just writing with little to no ideas and then having no clue how to end it, like I did with every fanfiction I tried to write ever.
Geez, sorry that happened to you, Fuzzy. I hope you don't run into anything like that ever again. Good thing it turned out well, though!
Gah, Danganronpa v3! I need to buy it! I've already spoiled the first chapter for myself; I don't want to spoil more! I just hope it won't kill my computer. Disgaea PC ran like molasses mixed with trash when I played it on my computer, and considering how much more high-quality(is that the right word lol) Danganronpa is, I'm kind of expecting it to run even worse. Agh, this is why I prefer console games... :,/
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Oct 10, 2017 18:07:12 GMT -5
Hello Stream! It's been a while. Don't worry about your priorities, school is important! I'll probably be lurking on this site until the day I die anyways :/
Yikes, that seems awful. I think the best thing to do right now is to just force it out. If the story isn't working, you can try and see if you get an idea that clicks or you can just try to write it. It probably won't be very good, but if you get something on paper (or, er, word document) and hand it in, it will be better than nothing and then you won't have to worry about it anymore. ... I think that's the only advice I've got, haha.
I redid the reading comprehension test and got 90%, so I think it's safe to say that it worked out! I'm just very grateful the teacher lets us write all over the booklets, because otherwise there would be no way to prove anything went wrong unless I did look over the test and said "hey, I didn't do these stories," but the teacher wouldn't let us look over the test so it might not have worked out. I got my essay back and got marked down on the placement of three commas which I honestly think are more of a stylistic decision than an actual grammatical error-- but whatever, the mark's good enough anyways, and I only got .5 off for that.
I'm not buying Danganronpa because there is no way my parents would ever let me have that game; I know I probably shouldn't have even watched playthroughs in the first place (especially when I was thirteen! Wow!) but now I'm too invested in the series. I've watched a playthrough of the full game, and when you complete the game I definitely want to discuss it with you. I'm pretty sure there's a version for PS4, if you have that...?
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"Heh. 'E-y-e?' That's 'ewe.'"
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Post by Stream on Oct 10, 2017 18:49:02 GMT -5
Thanks for the advice! I'll try that. Well, that's good! Glad to see you're doing good in school! ^^ Oh yeah, it's rated M or something like that, I kinda forgot ^^' I actually told my mom about the series as I was watching someone play it, and she seemed kinda... disturbed... but she didn't make me stop watching it or anything. I also asked her a few months before it came out if she would be okay with me buying it, and she said she wasn't sure. I pointed out that the blood was pink, and you don't actually kill people (typically), and that nothing... er, too "suggestive" happens, and that I wouldn't actually repeat the characters' bad actions, and she said maybe. Hopefully she agrees to let me buy it when I've scraped together the money! .0. Also, I don't have the PS4... All the consoles I have are Nintendo. Cx Too bad there isn't a Nintendo Switch port... though I don't even have that yet. Can't wait to play it or watch it or something so we can talk about it and stuff!  |
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Oct 10, 2017 19:17:48 GMT -5
I hope your story works out! Assigned writing can be a pain sometimes, haha.
I don't think I would be able to convince my parents. They'd probably be fine (ish) with the violence bit, because it's not too too graphic and I've got pretty high tolerance for violence, and they know I wouldn't ever do imitation murders or anything like that haha. The sexual content is pretty bad though-- I didn't notice it much in the first two games, mostly because when I watched them I was a smaller child and it all went over my head, but Miu alone in V3 is really, really vulgar. I was always super uncomfortable whenever she was on the screen, haha. That game would definitely not be in Nintendo's demographic; I think Nintendo likes to keep their games more PG. I have a lot of thoughts about the game so I look forward to discussing it!
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Post by αυяσяα ησx on Oct 11, 2017 13:56:58 GMT -5
I saw you two talking and I was like "I'll answer later" and then I never did and now I'm on my phone because I'm at my college (but my class isn't for another 40 minutes) so my response is probably going to be super short.
Stream, I would totally offer to write your story for you, haha. I've offered to write for my other friend before but I think it's a moot point by now. In any case, good luck. I can edit or offer constructive criticism, but I've never edited before so I'll probably be really bad it.
Danganronpa!! I watched a playthrough when I was in... maybe middle school??? I've been into it since before high school I'm sure, so I was like 12-13. I wasn't actually all that disturbed by it though. It was actually only recently that I looked back on it and I was like "...wow. That game was actually pretty effed up." I haven't been able to get V3 or watch a playthrough, but I'll get around to it when I get bored or something. I have a lot of free time now so.
I'm sure I have more things to respond to but I'm too lazy to scroll back up and see them.
Anyway I've pretty much just been attending classes at the college. It's super easy cuz I only have three classes, but I do want to get my AA next school year so I have to figure out how to do that.
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Oct 11, 2017 17:47:58 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I could also edit or offer criticism! I've only had a little bit of editing experience-- mostly editing my own stuff, but I've edited a friend's novel before.
I don't remember being too disturbed by Danganronpa when I first watched it. I've never really been all that fazed by violence, and I think the concept of teens murdering each other was what drew me to it in the first place (I was not in a very good place when I was thirteen.) The concept of the game is pretty messed up, but I think it's gotten a bit more intense in the later games? I've found Another Episode (the spinoff game) way darker than the other two main games, which is definitely because of the kids. I think the motives of V3 are darker than the other two, (obviously I can't go into details because of spoilers,) but it might just be that I already knew what happened in the first two and wasn't that affected before. If you want to watch the playthrough, you can do what I do and put it on 2x speed and just read everything! The trials are a lot longer, and if you're willing to forego the music and voices, I'd say it's probably worth it.
Is an AA an associate's degree? I had to google it because I don't think they have that here. You're in eleventh grade, right? And if I remember/read through past comments correctly, you're taking courses at the college now instead of at a high school? That seems pretty cool! Are they the same as regular high school courses or are they more advanced? (This bit of my response is a lot of questions, haha, sorry.)
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Post by αυяσяα ησx on Oct 11, 2017 23:24:30 GMT -5
I don't even remember what drew me in to Dangan Ronpa. I think it was the mystery aspect of it, honestly. I'm really bad at mysteries but somehow, I just love them. And yeah, Another Episode was a lot darker, especially considering she actually had to be in the action and fight rather than just investigate. Seriously, I feel SO BAD for the kids. Except Monaca. I still hate her. Intensely. But other than her, THOSE KIDS DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER AND I CRY FOR THEM.
I would do that, but I actually watch my favorite gamer play and he has great commentary, so I like to listen in its entirety. I'll just like, draw while watching him play probably. (Speaking of drawing, heyyy I drew a new profile pic and it's a lot better than my last one hehe)
Yes, it's an associate's degree and yes I am taking college classes rather than high school classes! Believe it or not, other than art, none of it is really all that hard. It's only been a few weeks, but my English class is easier than my Honors English class was last year. Criminal Justice is just... a whole lot of lectures which is boring and hard for me to understand, but I take notes from the textbook in my own time so I think I'm good there. My art class is hard because I didn't realize I was signing up for design and not normal drawing so yikes but I'm getting by... I guess. My classes will probably get harder in later quarters, especially if I want to get my AA! Only like, nine people got their AA in the same program I'm in last year.
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Oct 12, 2017 20:24:42 GMT -5
The mysteries are excellent! I regret that I hadn't tried to solve them more before when I first watched because I want to see how I did. A lot of the stuff I would have been very stumped on if I tried to play it myself. I felt so bad for the kids! Somebody needs to give them a hug and therapy. I feel a little pity for Monaca, but it's mostly overshadowed by how manipulative she was to the other kids and just about everyone she ever met. At least the kids still alive, according to the wiki, so hopefully they have better lives.
I am much more of a visual learner, so commentary is often lost on me. I don't really like using headphones because I only have cheap earbuds that came with my phone for free and my cats enjoy eating cords, so I listen to things without sound anyways. I noticed your profile pic! It looks good! Is it anyone in particular?
Oh, wow, that's cool! Criminal Justice sounds like an interesting subject, even if the lectures are boring. Is your English class focused on anything in particular, or is it just a general English class? I hope you get your AA! It sounds very difficult, but I'm sure you'll be able to do it.
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Post by αυяσяα ησx on Oct 21, 2017 20:58:32 GMT -5
Some of the mysteries were incredibly obvious to me (Sayaka Maizono, anyone? I get it was probably meant to be easy but... come on...) but there were some where there were insignificant details that turned out to be important later that got lost on me. The kids deserve so much more than they got and it makes me sadddd.
I don't really "learn" from watching videos haha. I mostly watch the videos so I know what's going on without actually playing the games because I can't afford it. Commentary is hilarious to me, depending on who's doing the commentary anyway.
Thank you! No, my profile pic isn't anyone in particular, haha. I just felt like drawing something and so I did, and then I was like "oh this looks good I'm gonna make it my picture". I noticed your profile picture too, btw! Very nice!
It is interesting! Just a whole lot of information to dump on me, ahh. My English class isn't focused on anything currently because it's a 101 class, but next quarter I'm planning on taking a creative writing class, and hopefully I'll do more from there!
My sister got her AA within two years, so I asked her and she told me that the college's website actually has information on how to get my AA! So I have to take a look at that ^.^
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Oct 21, 2017 21:25:04 GMT -5
Sayaka's was super easy. I didn't really get it at first, because I didn't know everyone's names since I think I was skipping through a lot of stuff, and was trying to figure out who "Leoll" was ... I was mostly watching instead of actively trying to solve the mysteries, and the videos were going fast enough that I didn't have time to think about it. Most of the reason I actually got through Danganronpa was because you can get the entire story purely visually. I tried listening with sound and the character voices clashed with what I thought they sounded like so I stopped, haha. I would like to watch it with commentary sometime, but that will probably have to wait a long time because I really can't afford a distraction with November and NaNoWriMo coming up. Who do you normally listen to?
Thank you! I just made the profile picture today. I haven't drawn anything in a long time and I've never really been an artist, and the quality kind of got ruined when it got shrunken down (if you could call it quality in the first place), but oh well. I wanted to make an avatar for my upcoming novel, and it was good to put a couple of hours of my time into focusing on something related to my novel instead of doing something else. I still need to make a cover (which will be a pain) and finish plotting (which will also be a pain) so I think making this avatar was kind of a productive procrastination? Oh well.
Have fun in your creative writing class! I want to take a creative writing course sometime in university, but that will probably be difficult because I'm thinking of going into bioinformatics (which is biology and computer science, which are both good things) and I don't really know how much room I'll have for creative writing. I also need to get over my procrastination and lack of motivation and fear of showing my work to others... and I need to apply to university in the first place, and sign up for scholarships, both of which I need to do soon, and I really don't want to. I kind of just want to lie in bed. Good luck on getting your AA!
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Post by EthanTheAnnus on Oct 22, 2017 18:36:36 GMT -5
Is it bad that I saw the title of this thread and thought of Fangbone?
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Nov 18, 2017 16:01:29 GMT -5
... it has been so long since I posted here. NaNoWriMo has taken my soul. But I won, and I'm trying to go for the 100k, so ???
Also, I finally passed my driver's test! I can technically drive without parental supervision. I am at least a little terrified.
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Post by αυяσяα ησx on Dec 1, 2017 0:52:01 GMT -5
Honestly responding to you just completely slipped my mind even though I've been online I AM SO SORRY
GOOD JOB ON WINNING NANOWRIMO!!!! I completely gave up because I just lost motivation after a while but!! I'm proud of you!!! Did you manage 100k? I only got to like 8k before I lost sight of what I was doing ^^;
I'm glad you managed to pass though! That's great! You don't really need to drive though, and now that you passed, you won't be forced to unless like, you absolutely have to. So I think you have some freedom now???
As for me, I got back into Pokemon and the quarter is ALMOST OVER. I just have one more week of classes and then I'm DONE. I literally hate my Criminal Justice and Art classes so I'm glad to be done with them after I do my finals.
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Post by fuzzytail333 on Dec 2, 2017 0:47:29 GMT -5
Haha, don't worry about it!
Thank you!! I did manage 100k! I ended up with 117k, actually. (My little counter at the bottom probably stopped updating since I hit the goal late last night.) I wrote over 12k yesterday alone, which was a very shocking experience, and my hands have been cramping because that was a lot of words. My writer friend did pretty well as well, but she didn't end up winning since this past month she's been very busy and had a couple of medical issues and such, but all things considered, it's pretty remarkable that she managed to get within 2k of finishing.
Thank you! I probably should be driving more than I am right now, so that I don't fall out of practice. I have the freedom to go wherever, technically, but I never really want to leave the house in the first place, sooo I don't know. I'm super scared to drive by myself.
Ohh, I need to get back into Pokemon now that I have no idea what to do with my time. Good luck with your finals!
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Post by αυяσяα ησx on Dec 2, 2017 19:51:18 GMT -5
THAT'S REALLY GOOD
I can't believe you managed to write all of that within a month??? PLUS 12k yesterday?????? That's honestly amazing. I wish I had that ability, but then again, this was my first year of nanowrimo, soooo I have plenty more opportunities to try and win. STILL I'M SUPER HAPPY THAT YOU MANAGED 117K
Haha that'll probably be me when I try to drive. If you don't really have anywhere you need to go though, I don't really know why you would go driving??? I guess it would be good to stay in practice, but ehhhh. Whatever works for you
Thanks! They shouldn't be too hard to finish, but one of them is at 7:30 AM and I live 20 minutes away from the college... OTL
Also, since getting back into Pokemon, my love for Dawn and also Gary Oak has been revived. Sinnoh was the last decent generation imo. Anime-wise anyway. The games are still amazing regardless of which region they are
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