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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited September 2014

    breakfast? grogg. my last memory was blowing bubbles with my favorite crazy straw.


    so many new crazy straw shapes today. kids today have it so lucky.

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,548
    edited December 1969

    I need to get my coffee and drink it soon.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited September 2014

    coffee with toasted buttery crumpet?

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  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    coffee with toasted buttery crumpet?

    Dang, that sure looks tasty! :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited September 2014

    next best thing would a thomas's? :)


    found klondike ice cream in the freezer at dayjob. howd it get there? :lol:


    sigh, 4 lottery tickets for last night, nuthin :shut:


    lean cuisine for lunch today. butternut squash ravioli

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    coworker showed me where he keeps his epinephrin pens in case he has an allergy episode.

    if i had to, giving him the shot in the arm is good, right? guess i should ask him. nothing to be embarrassed about when you can't breath, right?

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,226
    edited September 2014

    Misty Whisky said:
    coworker showed me where he keeps his epinephrin pens in case he has an allergy episode.

    if i had to, giving him the shot in the arm is good, right? guess i should ask him. nothing to be embarrassed about when you can't breath, right?


    "EpiPen Auto-Injectors contain a single dose of epinephrine, which you inject into your outer thigh. DO NOT INJECT INTO YOUR VEIN, BUTTOCK, FINGERS, TOES, HANDS OR FEET. In case of accidental injection, please seek immediate medical treatment. Epinephrine should be used with caution if you have heart disease or are taking certain medicines that can cause heart-related (cardiac) symptoms."
    But yes, ask him.
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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    coworker showed me where he keeps his epinephrin pens in case he has an allergy episode.

    if i had to, giving him the shot in the arm is good, right? guess i should ask him. nothing to be embarrassed about when you can't breath, right?


    "EpiPen Auto-Injectors contain a single dose of epinephrine, which you inject into your outer thigh. DO NOT INJECT INTO YOUR VEIN, BUTTOCK, FINGERS, TOES, HANDS OR FEET. In case of accidental injection, please seek immediate medical treatment. Epinephrine should be used with caution if you have heart disease or are taking certain medicines that can cause heart-related (cardiac) symptoms."
    But yes, ask him.

    he haz a 2pack. good to be prepared in case of amatuer screw up. the cpr trainer is coming back in 2 weeks. need to remember to ask about it.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,245
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...Kovec is older than she looks on purpose.

    Tjohn Thank you, you hit the nail on the head as I have mentioned in the past, this a very dark futuristic fairytale. Humans are no longer the only ones around anymore.


    writing in present tense, seems harder ;)
    ...yes it is.

    I'm considering the graphic novel format, provided I will be able to afford some good comic creation software, hence the present tense "screenplay" style. It would take longer as I would have to do a tonne more rendering as well as the individual "page" layout (this will still be a Net based story as I don't have a publisher nor the facility to create a print version), but just can't bring myself to telling this story without involving some form of illustration.

    The other way would be as a"classic" illustrated fairytale. Of course then I would have to change the tense of the narrative.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,245
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...OK as mentioned have been doing a lot of work on my primary antagonist, Ms Kovec:


    As the large doors shut behind Leela, the tall slender dark clothed woman turns from a portable computer she is hunched over and approaches her, "Ahh, my dear, we finally meet."

    Shaking her head she continues, "Leela. Leela, you know you really gave us quite a run, and cost us more than a few dinar these last couple days. "Let me see now," she continues glancing back at the screen, "Theft of a government vehicle, theft of government and military equipment, reckless operation aforementioned vehicle, ramming and injuring of four motorcycle officers, killing of a Russian military officer, killing of an SID official...

    ...those are just a few of the charges against you. Why, the last one alone can be grounds for execution."

    She turns back to face Leela and smiles before continuing, "However, young lady, you are most fortunate in that your value to the state, and to me allows me to dismiss all of the above."

    Leela looks up both somewhat scared and somewhat puzzled.

    'You don't know who I am, do you child?" Rita says.

    "You are Blacksuit, like the one I shot. You take people away from their families...," Leela replies quietly, looking down for a moment.

    In a gentle voice Rita corrects her, "Close child, in a way....you see, those whom you refer to as 'blacksuits', they all work for me."

    Leela looks up, eyes wide in disbelief, "...No...you cannot be...not her, not..."

    "...the 'Black Spider of Beograde', as your people love to call me?" Kovec says finishing the girl's statement, "Yes my dear, it is I."

    Leela steps back and then with a defiant look stammers, "W-Why do you hurt my country? Why have you taken me from my momma? If I had a gu--"

    Leaning slightly forward the dark clothed woman interrupts," ...you would shoot me of course. I wouldn't blame you." Staring the young red haired woman in the eyes she then adds, "However even if you had one, I don't think you could pull the trigger."

    Leela glares at her, then suddenly shivers as it feels as if Rita's words are reaching inside her mind dispelling any notion of violence and instead leaving her with an odd sensation of calmness.

    Taking a deep breath, Kovec continues in a more gentile voice, "That's better. Now, as to your first question, you will learn the answer in due time. As to your second, you are here because you are very important to me my dear. You see, you and I are going to become very good friends." Gesturing to a tray of food on the table behind her Rita says invitingly "Come, eat, you must be hungry. Afterwards we can talk all about your mother....

    ...the one in England.

    Hey great, will Leela do a Leon (from Bladerunner) and "I'll tell you about my mother...." BANG ?
    ...we'll see (heh) ;-)

    Love that you caught the reference. One of my favourite scenes as well as a favourite question of "shrinks" in the real world today. Kovec is a master of her craft and basically "wrote" the SID's [State Information Directive's] manual on the "fine art" of psychological warfare.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,245
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    TroutFace said:
    DanaTA said:
    TroutFace said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    TroutFace said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    ps1borg said:
    Found the sheepz !

    thought one was missing during the count last night :)

    I was feeling sheepish last night, wondered why... :smirk:


    didn't order the lamb chops?


    there was a lambchop sock puppet when i was a kid.

    I remember Lambchop! :bug: Wow, memories...

    On the Ed Sullivan Show, right? Among others at the time. Sherry Lewis, I think.

    Dana

    Yep, Sherry Lewis it was! So long ago...

    lamb chop!

    aww teh cute , is it a TV personality ?


    way way back, tv was b&w :)

    Oh steam television :lol:
    ...felt like it. We usually had to turn on the set about ten minutes before the programme we wanted to watch so it had sufficient time to warm up and get decent reception (the latter usually accomplished by fiddling with the antenna). Back then it was only three channels of cra-..er...programming, four if your hometown had a UHF or Educational channel.

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    I personally find writing first-person/present tense mto come very naturally.. but then, I grew up on a lot of hard-boiled detective/noir stories (along with a ton of science fiction my Dad introduced me to), so maybe it's just my upbringing.

    Writing for a graphic novel is, in my experience, a lot harder than it looks. While you get to drop a lot of the descriptive expository, you have to balance the words against the visuals, words will come out quicker than the art unless you're doing it all in 2D.

    Never tried illustrated stories.. :-S

    I'm going to stick to novella form for now, full-length novels seem to sell slow i eBook format while novellas and shorts move briskly. I've been told it's because your average Kindle customer doesn't have a lot of time to sit down and read more than a few chapters, and long/complex "word processor novels" tend to get a pass from the eBook mass market.

    I figure about 30-35 thousand words is a good read and will sell for the magic $1.99 price point.

    I just have to figure out how to market them once their done... :blank:

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited September 2014

    you putting me in the mood to watch some underworld movie. Kate in black latex :) a dark and rainy night.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,245
    edited September 2014

    ...yeah, I agree about the GN format. It is often much easier to write dialogue than expository, and thus get carried away. Remember the comic book Spawn? Sometimes the introspective writing would take up most if not all of the page. While a great story, it as probably one of the most "verbose" comics I ever read.

    Decades ago, I actually had designs to produce a GN of my now mothballed SF story but back before 2d/3d CG, it would have been next to impossible without selling out to one of the big comics publishing houses (provided they even liked the idea).

    I too love the old Hard Boiled Detective stories as well as film noir, both which also have hand in what I am doing.


    They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.
    --Rick Deckard.


    Yeah the film itself is also an influence as it's setting still to this day comes the closest I've seen to the one presented in the Shadowrun RPG which spawned the story.

    ...like I mentioned, a very dark futuristic fairy tale.

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,263
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    ...I've been told it's because your average Kindle customer doesn't have a lot of time to sit down and read more than a few chapters, and long/complex "word processor novels" tend to get a pass from the eBook mass market.
    ...

    I think it's more that a lot of people seem to have very, very, short attention spans. They want everything to be fast, instant if possible. Too bad, because they lose out on the nuances that fill in a story and make the characters and situations more real.

    Dana

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    TroutFace said:
    ...I've been told it's because your average Kindle customer doesn't have a lot of time to sit down and read more than a few chapters, and long/complex "word processor novels" tend to get a pass from the eBook mass market.
    ...

    I think it's more that a lot of people seem to have very, very, short attention spans. They want everything to be fast, instant if possible. Too bad, because they lose out on the nuances that fill in a story and make the characters and situations more real.

    Dana

    I can believe that as well.. the "want it in one click" syndrome. :down: Le sigh.

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...yeah, I agree about the GN format. It is often much easier to write dialogue than expository, and thus get carried away. Remember the comic book Spawn? Sometimes the introspective writing would take up most if not all of the page. While a great story, it as probably one of the most "verbose" comics I ever read.

    Decades ago, I actually had designs to produce a GN of my now mothballed SF story but back before 2d/3d CG, it would have been next to impossible without selling out to one of the big comics publishing houses (provided they even liked the idea).

    I too love the old Hard Boiled Detective stories as well as film noir, both which also have hand in what I am doing.


    They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.
    --Rick Deckard.


    Yeah the film itself is also an influence as it's setting still to this day comes the closest I've seen to the one presented in the Shadowrun RPG which spawned the story.

    ...like I mentioned, a very dark futuristic fairy tale.

    Love Bladerunner.. always have since the first time I saw it, a real film-noir dystropia.

  • M F MM F M Posts: 1,388
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    TroutFace said:
    ...I've been told it's because your average Kindle customer doesn't have a lot of time to sit down and read more than a few chapters, and long/complex "word processor novels" tend to get a pass from the eBook mass market.
    ...

    I think it's more that a lot of people seem to have very, very, short attention spans. They want everything to be fast, instant if possible. Too bad, because they lose out on the nuances that fill in a story and make the characters and situations more real.
    TL;DR... wut? ;-)

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,263
    edited December 1969

    M F M said:
    DanaTA said:
    TroutFace said:
    ...I've been told it's because your average Kindle customer doesn't have a lot of time to sit down and read more than a few chapters, and long/complex "word processor novels" tend to get a pass from the eBook mass market.
    ...

    I think it's more that a lot of people seem to have very, very, short attention spans. They want everything to be fast, instant if possible. Too bad, because they lose out on the nuances that fill in a story and make the characters and situations more real.


    TL;DR... wut? ;-)

    I don't even know what those mean. :blank:

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,263
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...yeah, I agree about the GN format. It is often much easier to write dialogue than expository, and thus get carried away. Remember the comic book Spawn? Sometimes the introspective writing would take up most if not all of the page. While a great story, it as probably one of the most "verbose" comics I ever read.

    Decades ago, I actually had designs to produce a GN of my now mothballed SF story but back before 2d/3d CG, it would have been next to impossible without selling out to one of the big comics publishing houses (provided they even liked the idea).

    I too love the old Hard Boiled Detective stories as well as film noir, both which also have hand in what I am doing.


    They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.
    --Rick Deckard.


    Yeah the film itself is also an influence as it's setting still to this day comes the closest I've seen to the one presented in the Shadowrun RPG which spawned the story.

    ...like I mentioned, a very dark futuristic fairy tale.

    Love Bladerunner.. always have since the first time I saw it, a real film-noir dystropia.

    I have the special collectors' edition in a big box. I haven't opened it...they say things like that have greater value if you don't break the seal. I think I have a regular case one, too. If not, I'll pick one up when I have HDTV and a Blue Ray player. I won't buy regular DVD movies anymore. Of course, I'm missing out on my Star Trek movies with that plan. I saw Nemesis a couple weeks ago on commercial television and didn't even remember a lot of it. I don't have that one on DVD.

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,245
    edited September 2014

    ...that's why of all RPGs, I love Shadowrun the most because it lends itself perfectly to gritty hard boiled scenarios if you want it to. My original Rhapsody In Shadow campaign (the one Leela's story comes from which is the working title) was heavily steeped in the Noir style.

    When I as recruiting, players, the first thing I mentioned was that this was "not your typical shadowrun" and that it was an extremely advanced and dangerous challenge. I stressed that paying attention to even some of the smallest details could be very very important down the line while warning that that simply going in "guns and spells a blazing" (as most players of the game tended to do) was the quickest way to fail. Stealth, cunning, a keen eye for clues, and a mind for piecing a complex puzzle together were the keys to succeeding. When I was writing it, I had plans to have the campaign arc published and was actually in contact with of one of the game's designers/editors. Just before the first playtest, the franchise owners decided to pull the plug on the then current edition and release an entirely new one (which included a number of radical changes that made it "feel" more like an MMO instead of a P&P RPG) and stopped taking any submissions as well as ceasing work on other projects still in progress at the time.

    I would still like to GM the scenario for a weekend game convention, however since it is written for an older edition of the ruleset, I am unable to get sponsorship from the parent company to help defray some of the costs. As the timeline in the game has advanced by more than a decade, and the world setting has drastically changed, the story would not work with the current published edition.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    putting away the swords this week for a 60s style love-in at the temple.

    i think love-ins were invented in the 60s?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,245
    edited December 1969

    ...spring, 1967 Los Angeles, Elysian Park.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    TroutFace said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...yeah, I agree about the GN format. It is often much easier to write dialogue than expository, and thus get carried away. Remember the comic book Spawn? Sometimes the introspective writing would take up most if not all of the page. While a great story, it as probably one of the most "verbose" comics I ever read.

    Decades ago, I actually had designs to produce a GN of my now mothballed SF story but back before 2d/3d CG, it would have been next to impossible without selling out to one of the big comics publishing houses (provided they even liked the idea).

    I too love the old Hard Boiled Detective stories as well as film noir, both which also have hand in what I am doing.


    They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.
    --Rick Deckard.


    Yeah the film itself is also an influence as it's setting still to this day comes the closest I've seen to the one presented in the Shadowrun RPG which spawned the story.

    ...like I mentioned, a very dark futuristic fairy tale.

    Love Bladerunner.. always have since the first time I saw it, a real film-noir dystropia.

    I have the special collectors' edition in a big box. I haven't opened it...they say things like that have greater value if you don't break the seal. I think I have a regular case one, too. If not, I'll pick one up when I have HDTV and a Blue Ray player. I won't buy regular DVD movies anymore. Of course, I'm missing out on my Star Trek movies with that plan. I saw Nemesis a couple weeks ago on commercial television and didn't even remember a lot of it. I don't have that one on DVD.

    Dana

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  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    M F M said:
    DanaTA said:
    TroutFace said:
    ...I've been told it's because your average Kindle customer doesn't have a lot of time to sit down and read more than a few chapters, and long/complex "word processor novels" tend to get a pass from the eBook mass market.
    ...

    I think it's more that a lot of people seem to have very, very, short attention spans. They want everything to be fast, instant if possible. Too bad, because they lose out on the nuances that fill in a story and make the characters and situations more real.


    TL;DR... wut? ;-)

    :lol: :lol: :lol:

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...spring, 1967 Los Angeles, Elysian Park.


    thanks. gonna read up on it. i'se assuuuming they wuz protesting the war,


    need to spritz up vicki's dank temple with some frou-frip-fery

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    M F M said:
    DanaTA said:
    TroutFace said:
    ...I've been told it's because your average Kindle customer doesn't have a lot of time to sit down and read more than a few chapters, and long/complex "word processor novels" tend to get a pass from the eBook mass market.
    ...

    I think it's more that a lot of people seem to have very, very, short attention spans. They want everything to be fast, instant if possible. Too bad, because they lose out on the nuances that fill in a story and make the characters and situations more real.


    TL;DR... wut? ;-)

    I don't even know what those mean. :blank:

    Dana

    Too Long; Didn't Read :lol:

  • M F MM F M Posts: 1,388
    edited September 2014

    DanaTA said:
    M F M said:
    DanaTA said:
    TroutFace said:
    ...I've been told it's because your average Kindle customer doesn't have a lot of time to sit down and read more than a few chapters, and long/complex "word processor novels" tend to get a pass from the eBook mass market.
    ...

    I think it's more that a lot of people seem to have very, very, short attention spans. They want everything to be fast, instant if possible. Too bad, because they lose out on the nuances that fill in a story and make the characters and situations more real.


    TL;DR... wut? ;-)

    I don't even know what those mean. :blank:
    "TL;DR" is a recent acronym for 'Too Long; Didn't Read' - generally in reference to long posts (or long threads) that weren't fully read before a response was typed. It can also be used to announce an "Executive Summary" section of a post, for those whose attention spans are too short to digest the full response. I was making an ironic suggestion that your response was too long for my attention span. ;-)

    ... I hope my response to your response isn't too long either ;-).

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    M F M said:
    DanaTA said:
    M F M said:
    DanaTA said:
    TroutFace said:
    ...I've been told it's because your average Kindle customer doesn't have a lot of time to sit down and read more than a few chapters, and long/complex "word processor novels" tend to get a pass from the eBook mass market.
    ...

    I think it's more that a lot of people seem to have very, very, short attention spans. They want everything to be fast, instant if possible. Too bad, because they lose out on the nuances that fill in a story and make the characters and situations more real.


    TL;DR... wut? ;-)

    I don't even know what those mean. :blank:
    "TL;DR" is a recent acronym for 'Too Long; Didn't Read' - generally in reference to long posts (or long threads) that weren't fully read before a response was typed. It can also be used to announce an "Executive Summary" section of a post, for those whose attention spans are too short to digest the full response. I was making an ironic suggestion that your response was too long for my attention span. ;-)

    ... I hope my response to your response isn't too long either ;-).


    lol means lots of love ?

    ty - terai yuki

    tl:dr hmmm, my snippet drops were tldr

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,263
    edited December 1969

    M F M said:
    DanaTA said:
    M F M said:
    DanaTA said:
    TroutFace said:
    ...I've been told it's because your average Kindle customer doesn't have a lot of time to sit down and read more than a few chapters, and long/complex "word processor novels" tend to get a pass from the eBook mass market.
    ...

    I think it's more that a lot of people seem to have very, very, short attention spans. They want everything to be fast, instant if possible. Too bad, because they lose out on the nuances that fill in a story and make the characters and situations more real.


    TL;DR... wut? ;-)

    I don't even know what those mean. :blank:
    "TL;DR" is a recent acronym for 'Too Long; Didn't Read' - generally in reference to long posts (or long threads) that weren't fully read before a response was typed. It can also be used to announce an "Executive Summary" section of a post, for those whose attention spans are too short to digest the full response. I was making an ironic suggestion that your response was too long for my attention span. ;-)

    ... I hope my response to your response isn't too long either ;-).

    Nah...I actually read stuff. If it's of interest to me. I don't bother with KK's review of football games because I'm not interested in football...pointy or round style. But generally, I read all the posts.

    Dana

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