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Post by The Champ is Here! on Aug 26, 2016 22:55:03 GMT -5
Serious question Do I need to change LeeRoy's name? I honestly had no idea it had any meaning, i was just trying to come up with a redneck name But I've seen it mentioned that it could have been a better choice so i thought I'd ask I wouldn't change it at this point (but if you felt you really had to, maybe drop either the Lee or the Roy). Wasn't my intention to make you at all self conscious about it - I'm just so damaged from ~20 years on the internet that the name is always gonna conjure up one thing in my mind. Like I said in your rp, just run with it so that by the time you've really got the ball rolling, your story is playing first chair to whatever backup your name is fiddlin'. It wasn't just your comment, i had a couple of comments on my last one as well so i just wanted to check |
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Post by bad guy™ on Aug 26, 2016 23:01:31 GMT -5
Animal Farm is a fantastic piece of literature. I actually enjoyed it more than 1984. Please don't kill me.
Anyways, RP is cooking with some gas. Made a MAJOR change to it at the advice of my British half like I mentioned yesterday, but I knocked out a lot of good content today with a scene I've been wanting to write for a while, and this match gave me the opportunity. I've still got a ways to go though.
Everyone do yourselves a favor: if you plan on reading the RPs this week, read Brennan's first before you get to mine. My ending and monologue don't quite make as much sense unless you've read Brennan's cover to cover first.
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Post by Dex on Aug 27, 2016 6:34:48 GMT -5
You guys read 'The Great Gastby' or 'The Things They Carried?'
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2016 6:55:22 GMT -5
You guys read 'The Great Gastby' or 'The Things They Carried?' I'll probably read Gatsby at some point this year. I signed up for a literature class, so I'll be getting some plusgood reading material. |
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Aug 27, 2016 7:02:13 GMT -5
You guys read 'The Great Gastby' or 'The Things They Carried?' FACK The Great Gatsby! That might easily be my least favorite book of all time, right up at the top of the list with The Perks of Being a Wallflower. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2016 7:08:44 GMT -5
You guys ever read Enders Game? I didn't like it AT ALL. Just terrible.
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Post by Dex on Aug 27, 2016 7:33:05 GMT -5
You guys read 'The Great Gastby' or 'The Things They Carried?' FACK The Great Gatsby! That might easily be my least favorite book of all time, right up at the top of the list with The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Wow, I really love the book. F Scott Fitzgerald has to be one of my favorite writers. |
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Post by The Future on Aug 27, 2016 8:04:05 GMT -5
FACK The Great Gatsby! That might easily be my least favorite book of all time, right up at the top of the list with The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Wow, I really love the book. F Scott Fitzgerald has to be one of my favorite writers. Great Gatsby is good if for nothing else, the subtext on homosexuality in the 20's in America. I love making deeper reads into the way Nick sees Jay & how he perceives Jordan in a more 'masculine' way, sexually. It glazes over some important plot details in weird ways & expects us to just take that & run with it...but I really enjoy it, particularly the end hanging image. The Things They Carried is dope. Possibly my favorite war novel, but it's not the only great one by O'Brien...you should read 'Going After Cacciato' if you liked 'Things', but they're very different pieces of work. |
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Post by jdfranchise on Aug 27, 2016 8:14:21 GMT -5
You guys read 'The Great Gastby' or 'The Things They Carried?' Read both of them. I'm indifferent towards Gatsby, but I really enjoyed Things They Carried. You'll enjoy it. |
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Post by Dex on Aug 27, 2016 10:45:19 GMT -5
You guys read 'The Great Gastby' or 'The Things They Carried?' Read both of them. I'm indifferent towards Gatsby, but I really enjoyed Things They Carried. You'll enjoy it. I've read it as well, great book, I'd imagine many on here would like it. |
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Post by jdfranchise on Aug 27, 2016 11:23:26 GMT -5
Read both of them. I'm indifferent towards Gatsby, but I really enjoyed Things They Carried. You'll enjoy it. I've read it as well, great book, I'd imagine many on here would like it. I didn't read it until college, and had to do WAAAAY more literary analyses on it than I care to remember. Actually bit a little of O'Brien's style in how I write now. |
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Post by BIG MCLARGEHUGE on Aug 27, 2016 11:53:33 GMT -5
I wouldn't change it at this point (but if you felt you really had to, maybe drop either the Lee or the Roy). Wasn't my intention to make you at all self conscious about it - I'm just so damaged from ~20 years on the internet that the name is always gonna conjure up one thing in my mind. Like I said in your rp, just run with it so that by the time you've really got the ball rolling, your story is playing first chair to whatever backup your name is fiddlin'. It wasn't just your comment, i had a couple of comments on my last one as well so i just wanted to check My recommendation. Flow with it. React to it. Maybe make it a berserk button. The best thing to do is to adapt to circumstances. The best roleplayers adapt in situations where they don't have control of their character. For example, if and when Big loses a match -- do I shut down shop or do I react to it? If something in the match or an interaction occurs that I didn't plan - I will react to it. The worst thing you can do is ignore feedback as well -- but doesn't shrink from it. Stand by some most of your decisions too. Just don't change your name to Mike Litorise. |
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Post by bad guy™ on Aug 27, 2016 12:03:24 GMT -5
You guys read 'The Great Gastby' or 'The Things They Carried?' Tim O'Brien is a master of emotional writing. |
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Post by jdfranchise on Aug 27, 2016 12:25:41 GMT -5
You guys read 'The Great Gastby' or 'The Things They Carried?' Tim O'Brien is a master of emotional writing. What I like in Things They Carried is that O'Brien has excerpts where he straps away the character and writes about the writing process as the man behind the keyboard. Very honest approach, which is what I love. |
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Post by Dex on Aug 27, 2016 12:32:04 GMT -5
The last chapter and the chapter with the veteran returning home are very hard hitting for me.
Going to try and read and reply either today or tomorrow.
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Post by Prophet of Ash on Aug 27, 2016 13:11:43 GMT -5
I've been primarily reading works from the '10s to early 1940s in my classes lately. The thing I've learned is, I'm evil for being white, even more evil for being a man. So  me. I could write some really passionate neo-Nazi promos after coming out of some of those classes, just from listening to the spewed propaganda for 3 hours |
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Post by bad guy™ on Aug 27, 2016 13:22:34 GMT -5
You guys read 'The Great Gastby' or 'The Things They Carried?' FACK The Great Gatsby! That might easily be my least favorite book of all time, right up at the top of the list with The Perks of Being a Wallflower. "Because I know there are people who say all these things don’t happen. And there are people who forget what it’s like to be sixteen when they turn seventeen. I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all become somebody’s mom or dad. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I am here, and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song, and that drive with the people who you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite." Wallflower is a favorite. Part of it is because it accurately depicts Pittsburgh's scenery well, and I'm a sucker for those kinds of books. |
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Post by dachs on Aug 27, 2016 14:37:59 GMT -5
reading is for nerds
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Post by BIG MCLARGEHUGE on Aug 27, 2016 14:43:33 GMT -5
you just read what you wrote probably nerd hahahahahah |
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Post by BIG MCLARGEHUGE on Aug 27, 2016 14:55:04 GMT -5
Also if the circumstances align, my next RP will be >golden<.
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I dont know good luck 
