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The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat Thread Vol 4

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I prefer Mac. Windows is simply too annoying for me to deal with and I know nothing about Linux.
 

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This whole SimCity deal thing reminds me of that whole Diablo III deal thing.

I wonder if I just opened the flood gates for something. :I
 

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Impossible. You can only be a Mac snob or a Linux snob. Windows is far too mainstream to be a snob of.

I don't know if you have been absent from the world in a few years or not, but macs are very mainstream.

Linux will remain Linux though.

You know they are and I know they are, but Mac users don't know they are.

We know we are. At least this Mac user does. (It's one of the things I like about having one; if I, say, forget my charger at home and really need to charge my computer, it's guaranteed someone in my class or in the grad student office also has a Mac and I can borrow theirs for a while.)

I resisted for a while, only using PCs until late 2011, when my hard disk when kaput. But then my school lent me money to buy any computer I wanted, and I used the opportunity to switch to a Mac. There are some things I still prefer about Windows but Macs are just more user-friendly, at least for how I'm using it. I know it can't do as much as Windows can, but I don't really do a lot of fancy stuff with my computer - most of the more specific stuff is stuff that I addressed simply by getting a MacBook Pro instead of an Air (namely, the music composition software I use, with Airs can't run).

Also, hi everybody! I woke up pretty late, as you can see. Then again, Daylight Savings Time reared its ugly head this morning.
 

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Oh, is it finally over? Good, I fucking hate Day-light Savings Time.
 

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Daylights saving time? Uh, I'm guessing it's different in America, I don't think our clocks went forward/back today ...
 

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Nng, we haven't done that today, so I guess it's different over here. ;-; Aw, but that means more time in the day! More time to get stuff done!
 

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Nng, we haven't done that today, so I guess it's different over here. ;-; Aw, but that means more time in the day! More time to get stuff done!

You know what I done for an hour, like 7pm to 7:50? Nothing. Just kinda laid there in bed, not asleep, not dreaming, not really any mental state, I was awake but I wasn't aware of really anything. I stopped thinking, or at least stopped being aware of myself. I just was at peace for almost an hour. No worries, no fears, just complete relaxation.

Also, as to why we haven't changed the clocks, I think we do it at the end of the month.
 

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Oh, god, you guys do that, too? I thought that dumb thing was dying out. >:I
 

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Yeah, whatever "logic" there is behind Daylight Savings Time seems to be based on a more agrarian society than we have now. Or something. Whatever. I don't like it.

Then again, I do kind of get frustrated by how early dusk comes in the winter when it's not on DST. I like the suddenly longer day (because I am never awake for the sunrise - although I was tonight, and it felt weird how late it was). Too much darkness makes even a hardcore night owl like me feel gloomy.
 

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You know what I done for an hour, like 7pm to 7:50? Nothing. Just kinda laid there in bed, not asleep, not dreaming, not really any mental state, I was awake but I wasn't aware of really anything. I stopped thinking, or at least stopped being aware of myself. I just was at peace for almost an hour. No worries, no fears, just complete relaxation.
That sounds quite relaxing, I do that sometimes but not for that amount of time. Does it feel nice? Idk, sometimes spacing out makes me feel even worse than I was before I did so.

Also about daylight saving time, I don't think I really mind it at all.
 

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So I actually have some good shit written for the novel I've had in my head for, I don't know, eons.

And something of a plot written, and more than just a couple of the characters developed.

But I feel like it's so obviously "besotted by my influences." But John Scalzi says that's a necessary step for a beginning writer, so whatever.
 

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That sounds quite relaxing, I do that sometimes but not for that amount of time. Does it feel nice? Idk, sometimes spacing out makes me feel even worse than I was before I did so.

Also about daylight saving time, I don't think I really mind it at all.

it feels heavenly. Time doesn't seem to exist when I do it. It's like meditating.
 

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You're a writer? Awesome! I would never admit to having a fantasy world for one in my head just out of fear of undermining the real writers. But I do. Only thing is I never studied literature, and I just wouldn't feel right about writing a fantasy series that has no influence or subtext.
 

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Knocking on wood here, but I'm pretty far in writing a novel myself. I can't begin to tell you how many times I've scrapped a novel by now, but I really wanna stick with this one.
 

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You're a writer? Awesome! I would never admit to having a fantasy world for one in my head just out of fear of undermining the real writers. But I do. Only thing is I never studied literature, and I just wouldn't feel right about writing a fantasy series that has no influence or subtext.

Yeah, although most of what I do these days is nonfiction. But I've always wanted to write a novel, so there you go.

This one is kind of a take on shows like Sailor Moon, Captain Planet, Power Rangers, etc. where you have a group of kids or teens with special powers with a special destiny to fulfill. I thought it would be interesting to explore something like that where they're older (my characters got their powers as older teens, but they're now in college) and they're not the sort of "average high school student who is nothing special" who'd normally accept something like this, they have their own, earthly dreams and goals they're not easily going to give up. The powers themselves are pretty derivative of other works, but that's kind of the point, so I'm not stressing too much over them. Though I feel like, maybe I should be?

One thing I noticed is my character whose power is fire (they're mostly elemental powers) is named for Saraswathi, a Hindu goddess of the arts and knowledge. Her name predates me using these characters in a fantasy story, but then I researched a bit more and found out Saraswathi is associated with water. Oops. But then, my character kind of has mixed feelings about having such purely destructive powers (compared to the other elements at play), so maybe it still fits. (The arts aspect also fits the character's mundane life - she's training to become an opera singer in music school.)

I might post some samples in the Writers' Workshop section. I don't really have anything particular for the actual novel written yet, but I did some sketches with the fire and water characters, just trying them out and playing with how to combine plot exposition and character establishing moments.
 
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no game breakers but i got the platinum cartridge working

on my third badge, Monferno and luxio are my two lead beasts

Meditite aka Goku is in third and Choppa the Machop is PUMPING DAT IROOOOOOON

going to beast on Maylene soon too though, but SOulsilver will come to me as well
 

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I write when I feel like it. I have a kajillion ideas that go through my head and I write down their out-lines and a brief summary and stuff, but I've only really tried making something in full a few times so far. I'm gonna try imposing a mental dead-line on myself to get this short story of mine done because I'm a lazy, unfocused sack of shit, but I doubt I'll go through with it. We'll see.

On another note, my brother is a big fan of survival horror video games and he finally got me to play Slender for the first time. I think I got 5 out of 8 pages before I noticed the ambient music getting louder and accepted a dare to turn right around and see if Slenderman was there to prove my incredible gutsy macho masculinity. Guess what happened.
 
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