Saturday, October 25, 2003

dear me.

My goodness, myOtakuists are prolific writers. I'm not complaining, mind you, but I'm not used to going through and seeing new posts on nearly everybody's sites, since I usually check them, oh, all the freakin' time. The Last Updated thing came just in time.

Let's see ... what else. Dagger advised people to come on by OB and sign up. I'd do the same. ... Along with a warning that it will assuredly be a love-hate relationship, as briefly enumerated in my previous post. In fact, it wasn't really enumerated at all as I didn't go into any of the "hates", but I've decided not to do that as people would probably ... read it and stuff. :-P

It's interesting how the big names on myOtaku (that is, the people who get the most visits and such) don't correlate with the big names/posters on OtakuBoards. I suppose that's not very surprising ... but I find it fascinating.

I've also definitely noticed a huge visitor rise over the weekends. (Maybe this has something to do with my usually updating on Saturday or Sunday, though.) Well, it's the weekend now, people -- surge! Flock to me! :-P

I'm in a bit of an odd mood, if you hadn't noticed.

---------- Oh yeah, one more thing. (One moooore tiiing ... a la Uncle from Jackie Chan's Adventures. No? Okay then.)

Just a cute little moderating story -- I've been debating trying to crack down on punctuation, grammar, and such, but I decided I may as well give it a shot, so I sent some PMs to some members. One response in particular was very cute, to a member who'd been here for a while and had always completely ignored the rules of capitalization.

He responded with something like, "I ... I've been caught!!! Sorry, I always knew the rules, but since I've always gotten away with it ... I'll be better about caps in the future." (Completely misquoted, since I deleted the PM unfortunately, but along those lines.)

I thought it was a) a sign that I should PM more members about their grammatical choices, but more importantly, b) an utterly adorable response. :-)
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Monday, October 20, 2003

love and hate on OB

I love some newbies, or in case that term insults anybody, "new members." Sometimes someone with a single-digit post count will just be so nice and polite and have good grammar and spelling, and you can't help but be happily surprised. You (or me, in this case) don't want to stereotype newbies, but subconsciously sometimes you do, and when one of them proves you wrong you just have to smile, because it's nice.

Should've just replaced all those "you" with "me"s, I think.

There are also things I hate (or strongly dislike) about OB. But I won't go into that right now. I'll just bask in newbie love.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2003

quotes

There are a few quotes from OtakuBoards that have just really made me smile. Or laugh hysterically, whichever. Some of them I considered momentous enough to copy into a text file ... so I thought that I would reproduce those quotes for you here. You may not appreciate all of them as I do; that is all right. My sense of humor ... is my own. (Plus, some of them are much better in the context of the thread they were in :-P.)

Oh, one background thing for those of you who don't go to OB: RPGs are basically a collaborative writing effort, in which each participant can choose a character and everybody posts their own little sections of a story. Some of these are RPG-based quotes.

In an RPG:
____, please watch your spelling and grammar, and the fact that you sometimes call yourself "Ryu" by accident. --Wondershot

I hate stupid people ... and they are EVERYWHERE. -- Drix D'Zanth

In the rap battle thread:
Iambic pentameter is so icy in my hands -- Mitch

Sometimes I wonder if these newbies are really just banging their head against the keyboard and keep on getting lucky. -- Chaos (signature)

In a "wanna be my friend?" spam thread:
And besides, all the cool kids with plenty of friends are reading the rules. -- Charles

On "playing mod":
I was going to say something terra, but I knew that I would have been told not to do so. -- name removed, and yes, this was the entire post

In an RPG where you can play as a moderator:
Zoey said to herself as she was reading the start of a thread intiltled: Sailoor Miniii Mooon is the coolest! Out of the kindness of her heart she decided to read what crap this idiot had posted. It only got worst...."What are you talking about?!?!? Mercury is the best!" Not uh!" Yes huh!" Not uh!". This s**t was folled by loads of complete spam with about every other word mispelled. -- name removed

In a thread titled, "Do you ever see something that isn't really there?":
I've seen banned members ... I see them several times, and they always give me a chill down my spine (except in the YYH forum). -- AzureWolf

I welcome your additions, if you have any.

(edit) Oh, and I suppose I should make this clear: those posts that owe their humor to some slight mistakes or something -- I'm not judging the one who posted them. We all make mistakes. :)
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Saturday, October 11, 2003

request for da help

*bats at HTML generator* I don't need your help! Stop cluttering me!

Anyway ... this is a short plea for help. I got my belly button pierced like a year ago and have always been too lazy to go down to the place where I got it done and figure out how to take the ring out. If you know how to take out a belly button ring (it's very plain, just a circle with a little ball), please inform me. I searched online and got nothin'! Well ... nothing much. There was much talk of nose pliers. But I don't want to have to take pliers to my own stomach ...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2003

(no subject)

I completely lied about that using "meh" as my default subject thing, by the way (some posts back). I never do.

Anyway ... Usually everyone here has one week that they dub "Hell Week," around midterm time when s/he just gets inundated with tests and papers and such. Mine is coming up. Would you like to hear about it? Sure you would! Next week: Thursday my 12-page lab report is due, Friday my 8-page Gothic literature paper is due, and the Monday after that my 12-page fairy tales paper is due. (I know ... a paper on fairy tales doesn't sound too hard. But twelve pages?!) Oh, and the Wednesday after that I have a midterm in my Milton class.

As if that weren't enough, from Thursday-Sunday is SCSY (a Model UN-type thing), which takes so much time.

Anyway, so I'm trying to get things done now as much as I can. Like my lab report. And this myOtaku post. ... WAIT A SECOND ...
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Monday, October 6, 2003

throwin' out ideas

Before I do the "throwing out ideas" I just promised in the title, does anybody know how the comments thing works?? Sometimes it seems I can use HTML, sometimes I can't ... I'm just so confused. :-(

Now, to the idea-mobile. I'm sitting at work bored (with both biochemistry lab and physical chemistry books sitting unused in my bag, very unwisely as I have a p.chem midterm tomorrow). I've been trying to think of an idea for a new RPG to start for a while now, though I think there have been a lot of good RPG's started up recently, as Arcadia recently posted. It's just fun to start an RPG, I think, and have that power. :-P

Anyway, I was thinking for some reason I want to do a romance RPG, since I have a pathetic weakness for romance stories. But I don't think a serious romance RPG would do very well ... so instead of taking it seriously, perhaps it could be rather melodramatic and exaggerated. You know, along the lines of Temptation Island or something ... Maybe it could be, like, a singles cruise, with a bunch of good-looking men and women as characters, meeting each other, making out (not graphically of course!), horrible betrayals of trust, etc. etc.

Then, of course, to give it direction, some horrible danger would have to occur halfway through the RPG. Like, perhaps a dragon could emerge from the ocean, and the aforementioned (probably scantily-clad) men and women characters would have to somehow end up being the ones who band together to save the singles cruise so that it can go on its merry, matchmaking way. Maybe not a dragon ... but something. Something DRASTIC.

Eh? Eh? :-D Do you have any thoughts to add? Any better plot twists that should be thrown in? Would you join? Would you read it? Would you think I was a psycho?

EDIT: Oh, my God. While we're on the subject of ideas for RPG ... This one of Eternal Otaku's is going to be pretty damn entertaining. And, I expect BabyGirl's to be a great deal of fun as well. Perhaps mine can wait ...
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Sunday, October 5, 2003

monikers

I notice nobody on the boards calls me by my real name (Ellie, if you didn't want to move your eyes over to that column on the left and look). Which isn't that surprising, since I go by terra. I guess if I wanted people to call me Ellie I could always change my username to Ellie. Which would be logical. But ... weird. It's like those people who have their screennames as their Firstname Lastname (I know two). It makes so much sense ... but it just seems odd.

So my question is, why'd you choose your name? (I'm particularly curious about Dagger IX1 and SomeGuy. :-P) And would you prefer people to call you by that username, or your real name? (Neither of these questions apply to people like Ben. Or James.)

The reason I chose terra was because I once used the name "terra dewrim" for a pen name, because it's an anagram of "dreamwriter." Which I thought was clever ... at the time. Anyway, so I wouldn't go around calling myself "terra dewrim" anymore, but "terra" sort of fits. Plus, it carries all the prestige of the lovely half-Esper FF character. (Though I like Rydia better.) For some reason I don't like it capitalized as much, though people do that all the time and I don't mind or anything. I just like the way the word "terra" looks.

Well, it's time to start studying for p.chem. Oh yeah, I changed my introduction to that little banner. I think it's a little better than the sentence I had there before ... but not by much.
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Thursday, October 2, 2003

don't want to do my lab report

Heh, something fairly amusing happened last night. Well, it's a short story. I was changing my shirt and a guy friend of mine walked in and saw ... MY NAKED BACK.

The amusing part about this is that it's the second time it's happened to me (different guy last time though). Apparently I'm trained to change with my back to the door.

I think the moral I should derive from this story is to stop changing where people can walk in on me. (It was definitely my fault last night ... my door was propped open. Hey, what are the odds someone walks in at the exact moment I'm changing?)

It's kind of like that one year of my life when I fell into four different ponds. Yep, four ponds in a year. By the end of the year my parents were like, "Just stay away. Stay away from the pond. Don't. Go. Near. The. Pond."

Anyway, it's been a fairly uneventful week. Almost over, except for my damned section at 7:10. Who makes sections start at 7:10? And end at 8? It's like they want me to miss Friends. >:O
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Sunday, September 28, 2003

on the nature of time

Time is just so odd.

I don't have any classes on Friday, so I have three-day weekends. With pretty much no commitments for the entire weekend, you'd think that it wouldn't be difficult for me to get everything I want to done. That is 72 hours worth of freedom. Of course, sleeping factors in; let's say I sleep 9 hours a day on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. That still leaves 45 hours.

Yet somehow, I never feel like I have enough time to do it all. Not only do I not have enough time to do all my homework, I don't even have enough time to do all the procrastination I'd like to do. Ha, namely, I haven't even had time to post in RPGs on the boards so much. Since that's something I do when I avoid doing work, and I haven't done any work either ... what's going on? If I don't even have time to procrastinate, it seems like something is wrong. It's like my 45 hours this weekend just completely disappeared.

Heh, of course, this isn't an uncommon phenomenon, particularly for college students around the world, I think. Doesn't make it any less odd. :-P

Mm ... I guess I should be truthful. I have gotten a little done this weekend ... my study abroad application, so far. And there are still two good hours left ... we'll see how much I can get done with those precious final hours.
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Thursday, September 25, 2003

gimme some more of that procrastination goodness

I think the key to looking intelligent is to put as many punctuation marks at the end of your sentence as possible ............. Especially if you're excited!!!!!! Or, do you have a question?????

...

Excuse me.

I've noticed it's really hard to come up with decent subjects for every post and every comment. So, my new default title will be meh. Just for those of you for whom I might input the title "meh", causing you to be like, what? why meh????? Well, that's why.
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