The erratic adventures of shay & jax
The other day I posted someone a 2000 character PM. Well, nearly - I think I had about 8 characters left on the limit. Proof, if proof is needed, that I talk too much! In fairness, Shay only really did two things and said one line of dialogue; the rest of it was fleshing out the scene/off topic whittering [delete as applicable]. Perhaps I should interview for Test Match Special; I'd be great at talking about cake, and birds, and hanging baskets, and passing buses rather than just dealing with the cricket. :D It's the Boss' birthday today. It was twitchy bum time for a bit as to whether her prezzie would turn up in time - the perils of being a disorganised fuck, I suppose. This tends to filter through all aspects of my home life (I'm surprisingly together at work) which means that V and Shay are still to pull their thumbs out of their bums and get back on the road. Other than that, I don't think there's any real in-game news to report. I am currently being slightly intrigued by this image that has worked its way onto my FB feed: Why is 50 Cent doing a camp double-teapot? Why is Remy Ma wearing day-glo briefs over her jeans? Is it some sort of superhero thing? Who is going to look into the camera viewfinder that is pointed straight up? Is it for a giant cameraman, or are these miniature versions of everyone's favourite mumbling oaf and attempted murderess? So may questions... England's defeat last night means that the majority of pre-tournament predictions that we wouldn't get out of the group stage should prove to be true. It's actually been interesting to see a tournament lead-up without images of Stevie G leering from the front pages of the tabloids alongside the words "WE CAN WIN THIS!" reaching saturation point. Yeah, there was some tub-thumping in the lead up, and there'll be some moping and reactionary nonsense about sacking the lot of 'em today, but unreasonable optimism beforehand and end-of-the-world disappointment after defeats are a part of football. I wanted England to win, but I'm not a slavering fan by any means. My slightly detached view is therefore that we've lost two close games by the odd goal. We are what we are - a top 15-20 side with a bunch of decent pros, no world class player, and Phil Jagielka. I few of my celtic friends and family are enjoying themselves, but it's all good fun. Opportunities to sneer at Scottish, Welsh and Irish defeat come around so much more often but I don't bother - I think the fact that I don't actually give a toss infuriates them even more. Okay, I have a wife to attend to, so I'll leave you with an image from the first decent FB page recommendation I've had in forever, the extraordinarily cute Liz Katz: And a track from the new(ish) Glitch Mob album Love Death Immortality, which has been improving my productivity at work no end. They've come a long way from being the glitch-hop group I fell in love with back in 2008. Their new album is more a collection of festival crowdpleasers than their more introspective (and better) 2010 debut album. I'm not convinced the album is as good as some of the praise I've seen lavished upon it, or as bad as Sputnik Music made out - then again, rules for Sputnik reviews seem to be 'if anyone has ever heard of them they must be rubbish' - but it's a solid 3/3.5* effort. The first single Can't Kill Us is closer to the sound they had when I first got into them and is maybe my favourite track on the album, but I think I'll annoy you all with something a bit more hectic:
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It seems like as soon as I semi-retired V, inspiration struck again. Admittedly much of this took the form of teasing Mason and Phil, but that's what they are there for, right? Anyway, this has led to me completing a song for the much talked about, will-probably-never-be-delivered horror album. On top of that, I'm really pleased with it. I want the album to veer between quirky, fun and creepy, and I guess this one's at the creepy end of the spectrum. Knife in My Hand (The Red) It almost feels like it would work as a folk song, but as V doesn't know folk, it won't be. :P In other news, I'm waiting to find out whether Ghostbusters will get a cinematic re-release in the UK. I really hope so; this will be the best combination of geeking out and feeling older than God's dog in years. And then next October we have Back to the Future II Day. I gotta start working on my hoverboard. Although being a year older and fatter, maybe I should go as Biff? Looks like Marty's covered: (If you're not already following Ayria Lovett on the social medium of your choice, you should go do that. Her shoots are always super-cute, and her photography is spot on. And she's geeky as eff - what's not to like, fanboy/girl/rootvegetable?)
Tasks for the weekend? Get tipsy, listen to a fun local band, watch England/Italy. Oh, and treat Bread Sr to dinner. Peace! Afternoon everyone. I hope you're all having a fun weekend. Apologies for not updating regularly, but I have been crazily busy, professionally speaking. Too many evenings have been a case of come home, have dinner, then go up to the study and work until bedtime. You will all note, however, that unlike that lazy student Rice, I have managed to keep V ticking over and have seen some fairly significant developments with Shay. Butters is also a student, but she's managed to keep Madi moving forwards. As any fule kno, women are better at multitasking than men, thus proving beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I am twice the woman that Rice is... This blog has languished in my drafts since just after the Easter weekend. The sun shone on Friday and Saturday, and me and the boss got the hiking boots out and got up on the moor to rack up a few miles - it was a wonderful reminder of why I love living where I live. I had an interesting chat with Cookie over the Easter weekend about alignments and 'evil' characters in Popmundo. It's pretty easy to be a dick in Popmundo (don't believe me? Go read the forums for an hour or two...) but a lot tougher to be evil, especially now the opt-in system for the crime game has removed another way of fucking over other people's characters. On top of that, there's the whole thing about bell-ends using 'oh, it's only RP' to try and cover up the fact that they are just griefers/trolls/children.
How then do you roleplay an evil character in an essentially 'good' universe? Cookie pointed out that the answer, as with most things, is mutual consent. You have to find a gang of like-minded nerds that don't mind exploring the darker side of human nature, and maybe impacting negatively on their own character in order to advance the story. And even then it's not easy; it's tough to find people who are willing to do that, the people who are willing tend to be friends and people that trust on another, and people are understandably loath to risk upsetting their friends. This is, I believe, why I can think of two 'evil' characters who haven't really turned out that way. Their puppet masters have struggled to find people to play them with, and they are too nice to just mindlessly grief unsuspecting players. Informed as I am by nerding it up in 2nd edition AD&D (I can't believe they've made Armour Class RISE as it gets better, and got rid of THAC0! Of THAC0, of all things! [/nerd]) I was thinking of adding alignments to the character bios (this was all my idea, and certainly not something I yoinked from anyone else. Oh no...) Then I realised that both V and Shay would be something fairly dull like Chaotic or Neutral Good, so I won't bother. :P Any other business? Post your requests below. Whilst browsing through back-posts of Let Me Tell You Why That's Bullshit, I found this essay about Mary Sue characters that I think Ricicles might dig. For those of you too lazy to click links, here's the opening paragraph, which should give you a little hint of where the piece is going: So, there’s this girl. She’s tragically orphaned and richer than anyone on the planet. Every guy she meets falls in love with her, but in between torrid romances she rejects them all because she dedicated to what is Pure and Good. She has genius level intellect, Olympic-athlete level athletic ability and incredible good looks. She is consumed by terrible angst, but this only makes guys want her more. She has no superhuman abilities, yet she is more competent than her superhuman friends and defeats superhumans with ease. She has unshakably loyal friends and allies, despite the fact she treats them pretty badly. They fear and respect her, and defer to her orders. Everyone is obsessed with her, even her enemies are attracted to her. She can plan ahead for anything and she’s generally right with any conclusion she makes. People who defy her are inevitably wrong. Now I've been as sneerly critical of Mary Sues as any nerd, but this piece does raise an interesting point, namely that we don't bat an eyelid when male characters are perfect badasses who kill the bad guy and get the girl, but when female characters do something similar... For the record, I've always disliked such perfect male characters too, but that's because I'm like the fucking God of even-handed social justice (and also an Olympic-level athlete who has to tuck his junk into his sock...) This is probably why V and Shay are portrayed, for the most part, and shambling messes. Hopefully they haven't gone too far the other way, as the perma-losers, always bemoaning their lot, are 1000 times more irritating than any Bella-from-Twilight types. So, yeah, remember kids: female characters should only be there to affirm male power fantasies. They should be spunky, but ultimately demure to any man capable of 'putting them in their place'. And they should always, always be hyper-sexualised perfect 10s; remember, they're only there for us menfolk to leer at. ...I'm sorry, what was the point of my argument again? Never mind - whoo, lady-bits!!
Ok, ok, so there is a world of difference between being able to appreciate an attractive woman (and that is a great, incredibly cute costume) and objectifying all women; I'm just letting y'all know that I already know I'm a hypocritical bell-end, so there's no need to point it out. ;) Peace and love, gentle readers. Peace and love. |
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