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Because the rules of grammar are so complex, nuanced, and ever-changing, that you would have to be a professional (read: qualified) wordsmith of some kind for your opinion to actually count for something. And even then, there are differenc…
I don't like responding with a temper, so thought I'd take a few days to reflect before I did. I apologise for the delay; I wasn't ignoring, just chewing on the food @Ra…
So I'm sitting in Mostyn fishing, @Aishia walks into the room out of nowhere, kills a seagull, then Duanathars back out in the space of three seconds. After t…
Would it be fine for me to tie my character's backstory to an existing NPC in the game? Specifically, I want to say that my character grew up in X location and was taught to read and write by Y NPC, and that therefore they are close friends.
When a design is not grammatically incorrect by any professionally recognised standards and is rejected because 'that [100% correct] grammar isn't consistent with the [incorrect] grammar we have recognised so far'.
Playing such a happy-go-lucky character, in contrast to my usual, more serious/philosophical/murderous ones, seems to be having a really positive effect on my mood, IRL. There are times when I want to have my character whine or be upset about someth…
I've been tepid about approaching all these many daunting self-affirmation threads… and there are many yet that I still intend to get to, at some point! But, here goes.
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I had literally exactly the same thoughts when I joined! I believe I even asked about it on the newbie channel. Which is why... I may currently have something planned in the works. *steeples*
Thanks for the advice. I did end up buying fishing and while it's not much more fun than bashing, it is a convenient way that I can be 'productive' IG while also being productive IRL working etc.
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You sing, "Rather than galloping on unicorns like she oughter!"
^ This line was also actually just the word 'unicorns'. Although, in earnest, it works out fine even if you assume it was a censored word... just even ruder than in…
It occurs to me that everyone in this log swears so much that it's probably really hard to tell which of the 'unicorns' was actually in use IC, and which are just the result of forum censorship.
Well, the Matrix was released at the zenith of 90s grunge; same year as Fight Club, mind, and just five years after Pulp Fiction. It's a product of its time/geography, which is to say bored Gen X/Y-ers, economic stability, comfortable middle-class i…