It's time for a boasting contest! What's the most badass and impressive thing that you have done so far this year? Don't worry about seeming rude, Sun Wumei is giving you an excuse to show off how much better than everyone else you are!
Isn't 'making someone sleep' as dangerous as my joke answer of tranquilizers?
I know this wasn't addressed to me, but I think I know the answer under it: It's very important to make sure that comments are regarded in the appropriate context. @HiroAntagonist is clearly not suggesting this to a stranger, but rather to a friend, and someone who trusts him. Of course, I could be wrong and he could be quite weird.
pressdotexe
responded to CareAndControl
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 10:08
Are you getting at anything here or just bored and poking random holes in people's heads?
I guess it is a sort of poking. I have a real hard time communicating in public with people, and most people I deal with on internet forums have very specialised interests. Plus, most forums that mention or deal with Paragon have to be very carefully moderated and observed in my line of work.
On the other hand, formspring's software is very susceptible to ████████ and █████████, which makes it much easier for me to █████ anything that might be ██████. Plus, I have monitoring software that can handle things on the way 'out the door' as it were.
But really, I just like how when you were asked about things to brag about, you mentioned an idea. An idea can change the world! And they can come from very strange sources of inspiration. The solution to 'the benzene riddle,' for example was first derived from a children's story about a snake eating its tail. You're a man of some renown and importance, and you're capable of moving people and money around, so it seemed natural that anything that could be so simply summarised had to be exciting, even if it couldn't be shared directly.
To answer your question, then, yes to both!
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 10:16
If you could turn into an animal for a day, which would you choose?
█████████!
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 10:36
Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person?
Not at all! I've encountered a few situations with people thinking they were filling a role in some great romantic tale didn't realise that they still live in a world where people bump their knees and sometimes change their minds.
I am no expert on falling in love, and I am really, really awkward with relationships, so I don't want you think I'm a good person to ask for this advice, but I am absolutely certain that the one thing I know about relationships is that they are nothing at all like Final Fantasy V, or VI, or even Quest For Glory 4, and those were stories you could play!
The big problem, I guess, is that a lot of really sad tragedies start out as romances.
I also have been told that love is very, very messy and often makes itself felt in strange ways - so hey! Maybe I'm wrong.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 10:51
Can I steal your "Wants Questions About"? That's fucking GENIUS.
Do I get royalties? :D No? I guess I did steal it first.
Go for it. It's dangerous to go alone, after all.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 10:55
Do you have a problem speaking to people or carrying out conversations, aside from a stutter?
I've been told a few times the stutter is a defensive mechanism, and thanks to some very extensive physical augmentation, I can't actually talk about some things /at all/. If I start to talk about ██████, for example, I'm told people can't hear anything. I also don't know when that's happening, because of the way my hearing is wired.
Then there's the fact that when I'm around people I like, I tend to get embarassed, which makes the stutter worse. This often means that the people who I can talk to the most are the people I don't really like all that much? Which is bothersome.
I have a team of people around me who really care about me, and they've tried to improve my quality of life - they're not very fond of the people responsible for my current state because of the limitations it imposes on me - but even that's a bit awkward. Thankfully, they have a good read on me, and a lot of the time I can get by with just nodding.
Also, sexual relationships are a █████ to establish.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Oh well. Beats nothing at all, and at least I know I'm loved.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 10:59
What's your stance on narcotics?
Most of them are pretty harmless! If you're messing up your own body, you deserve to know how and why. And if you're one of the people who subscribes them to address personality disorders I'd really appreciate it if you didn't. Because you probably don't know what you're talking about.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 11:02
Why is your shit greyed out? You don't need to censor yourself.
Huh? I'm not censoring anything I have to say. I mean, not consciously. It might be ████████ interfering with what information I let out?
My job does have some confidentiality issues. There's a lot of very good software meant to keep information from leaking out casually, and I just happen to have some of it running between my interface and formspring. Chances are, if you hear me talking about something that sounds like a big deal, it's not nearly that big a deal.
It is really embarassing to █████ a ███ and then find all your remarks in the █████ are nothing but blank spaces. It makes you look like a real █████ to anyone who goes looking to rems for guidance on what you were thinking.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 11:14
Do you have an idea of your 'scope?' Things you shouldn't be sweating dealing with, things that are beyond your means to meaningfully impact?
If it's digital, and connected to a network, even a closed network, it's within my reach.
If it's not digital, and I can put my hands on it, it's within my reach.
That's pretty much my job. I'm like Carlton Dial and Harry Flack put together! Except Carlton Dial got with a lot of girls and Harry Flack couldn't do a sit-up.
pressdotexe
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 11:39
What would you do if you were in a conversation with someone and a third person came over (with friends) and very rudely interrupted?
I stammer very lamely to an embarassed stop. Probably regardless of how rudely the interruption is handled. Or if I'm talking to anyone.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 05:22
Do you like your name?
My birth name, ████, wasn't given to me by either of my parents, and it's not a very 'me' name. On the other hand, it does mean I kinda-share it with ████ from ████ ██ ███████, which is an awesome game, because who doesn't love flying ███████?
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 05:24
Let us retry a game we played last year. Tell me two truths about yourself, and one lie. Others are encouraged to guess the lie, using the comments section. Responders, do remember to recognize the first one to guess your lie correctly. Go to it~
Interesting!
1. █ ███ ██ █████ █ ██. ██████! ██████ █ ██ █████! 2. I never buy one or two copies of a video game. It's always three. 3. I knew Bridget was a boy the first time I saw him.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 05:25
Fuck My Friends Friday: Pick 1 - 3 people from your contact list and invent a sexual act befitting of their name. What is it? (Recycled question, but it was funny last time)
Well, a Honeytrap is a sexual act. Zex sounds like sex, so I guess it'd be highly synthesised or acts between digitized avatars. And Kazeno I think would involve the nightstick?
I'm really not very good at these games.
pressdotexe
responded to AGreenDragon
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 05:26
I feel a little silly but every time I see someone smiled at one of my answers I get really excited and happy. Do smiles mean a lot to the rest of you when you get them?
It says a person pressed a button. That can sometimes be more effort than a lot of people put into this kind of interaction.
pressdotexe
responded to AGreenDragon
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 05:57
I can't comment on your stuff so I'm going to say 2 is a lie, cause why more than one of the same game?
Nope, that's not the lie! I buy three copies of every video game I buy.
One gets to live in the cabinet in its shrink-wrap, with its receipt, showing when it was purchased. It means I can tell at a glance every game I purchased, and what games should be finished soon.
One gets to be the 'loaner' - it means any time I tell a friend 'this is a really good game, you should try it,' I can just hand it to them. I also keep loaner consoles around for this reason. Recently I've started buying up extra dreamcasts because not enough people tried them.
And the third is the copy that goes into the rack by the TV to be played!
pressdotexe
responded to innocuus
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 08:24
no fair telling the answers!
Don't worry about your phone, by the way!
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 08:29
What's a phrase in a non-English language that you recall and can repeat off the top of your head? Multilingual people, don't worry about being considered to cheat.
Lots, and lots, and lots. The first one that springs to mind when you asked however, was this one:
"Seht mich an, seht mich an, das Monster in mir ist schon so groß geworden!"
pressdotexe
responded to AvengeAmethyst
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 09:17
Hi, I'm Anbaric Amethyst. I used to be a villain. I've been released and I'm looking forward to making up for my crimes and getting to know you all, especially this teenaged version of myself. Does anyone have any questions for me?
Not yet!
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 09:31
Ahah, mystery solved - the question was still in my "sent" records, just not under public questions on my profile any more. Turns out it was the "team roles" question. SO, question: what's your favourite question that you've asked?
It hasn't been answered, but if it is, I think I'll find it really funny.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 09:45
So wait... Swivel, that's actually you, right? This isn't just a certain somebody's idea of a joke? I warn you, I'll know if you lie!
██ █████ ██ ██!
pressdotexe
responded to CareAndControl
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 09:49
For the record? She's totally not jumping all over me. Much to my dismay.
That could be awkward and painful, or fun and thrilling, if you're into that sort of thing.
It's an interesting idea, come to think of it, that there is one way that things should be done, and only one. I don't imagine it would work out very well here, but I think in, for example @Zexecutioner's ideal society, @TrulyKazeno would be a remarkably efficient officer.
And people like ███████, ███████, you and █ would all probably be dead, but I'm sure that's not what they consider a great loss? I'm not sure. I haven't got a good read on this kind of thing, I suppose.
pressdotexe
on Friday 3 February, 2012 at 10:53
Have you ever been to a wedding where they placed disposable cameras on the tables? If so what did you take pictures of?
This is so much funnier when you know what a wedding means in my line of work.
Technically, yes! And the last time, I took pictures of ███████, ████, ███ ███████, ████, and █.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Saturday 4 February, 2012 at 03:11
I asked this before but it's been about six months now so..it can't hurt to ask again. And if you answered before has your answer changed or is there something you want to add? The question is: How has fighting, or committing, crime changed you?
It's hard to say, since a lot of what I do can't be considered 'fighting crime' in the conventional sense. Some of what I do is much more preventative than even that - after all, the yield on poppy crops in ███████, ███ and █████ would be up to 35% higher with a subsequent increase in infrastructure and supply for the cartels, if █ and █████ and █████████ ██████ hadn't taken the mission we had, and the deaths involved were minimal as no ██████████ had to be relinquished, and that meant there wasn't any ██████████ █████████.
Some of what I do feels a lot like what superheroes call the 'catch and release' method. A lot of big crime problems are about removal or rendition of targets that are problems, such as the time we █████████ ███ ██ ██████ to France, where he had no contacts. As long as ███ was alive, ███ brother would block his return, but if ███ had just died, ███ brother would have been able to seize total control. It didn't get rid of the cartel but it slowed its growth.
Then there's the fact I do some stuff that's got to be considered a crime in the nations it's done. It's just not nice. Infiltration is basically a fancier word for trespassing, cyber-infiltration just as bad and more Dick because it uses the word cyber, and that's just the tip of the iceberg at this level of operations.
The thing that it has most done to change me is it made it easier to listen to and easier to be the stammering guy who can't talk to people and is shy around girls. That may not sound like a good thing, but I really, really appreciate it. It gets frustrating at times - like (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻┻ - but it's way easier to not act on it now.
Plus, I have friends now, friends who appreciate me because of who I am and despite of it. That's really valuable.
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Saturday 4 February, 2012 at 03:51
Hey kiddo, I guess I can call you Swiv in public now yeah? Also tell your friend he better not fuck with you too much, or I swear to god I'll find some way to punch an AI.
Oh, I don't think █████.███ is getting involved much here. If it is, I'm not really noticing it. And yeah, my official callsign has been declassified, so... whatever you like. I understand ████, my birth name, is also declassified but I don't know if I really want to hear people call me that.
pressdotexe
responded to HiroAntagonist
on Saturday 4 February, 2012 at 03:52
What's your idea of a romantic date?
I kinda like @Zexecutioner's answer, but I don't think I could even manage it with one other person. I'm really shy.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Saturday 4 February, 2012 at 03:53
What do you like most about yourself?
24 hour, instant access to about fifty different wikis on different subjects, including wikipedia, tvtropes, █████ and ███████. There's so much to know, and I don't even have to use a computer to find out about it - I can just sit and read, wherever I am.
pressdotexe
on Saturday 4 February, 2012 at 05:41
Bond, Bourne, Jones, Maltese, Powers... Waldo? Who's your favorite international man of mystery?
Jade's an interPLANETary woman of UNCOVERING mysteries. That should count.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Saturday 4 February, 2012 at 07:03
Is there something that all of your friends/family seem to believe, that you simply can't?
My dad is probably the worst Half-Jewish Catholic ever? And my sister believes she can solve everything in the world by punching it in the face.
pressdotexe
on Saturday 4 February, 2012 at 08:18
What's something new you learned about a word today? :D
I learned that the word 'genocide' didn't exist at all until 1943. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Saturday 4 February, 2012 at 09:32
So like, hey. This is just for the guys. How much time do you put in to your looks, like ya know, hair, body, clothes? Do you like feel a lot of pressure to look hot and all?
I wish I knew how. I'm kinda skinny and I'm told I'm cute? But you find long hair, glasses, and pale skin cute or you don't. Plus my ID colour for ███████ and ███████ is purple, which means... well, yeah, I wear purple. That can look a touch on the silly side, I'm told.
Plus? I hang around a guy who is a lot bigger and more classically manly than me, so I kinda look weedier and wimpier by comparison. So I guess I'd say... put some effort into your surroundings, dress in clothes that fit, and don't try to look like something you're not...?
pressdotexe
responded to HiroAntagonist
on Sunday 5 February, 2012 at 01:32
I hate to bother y'all with this, but has anyone seen Rose? I ain't seen her since this mornin', and I'm startin' to get concerned.
How thoroughly do you want me to look?
Some of the ways I can find people makes people uncomfortable. D:
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Sunday 5 February, 2012 at 04:35
I've had enough of watching Pink and Purple argue over me and am going to bed. If you think Pink is being a cooze, Press 1). If you think Purple is being treated unfairly, Press 2) If you think this poll is biased, Press 3).
The word cooze is awfully funny.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Sunday 5 February, 2012 at 05:21
For those who wanted an answer box to respond to something, or missed it and have no idea what @ControlAndCare was just fussing about, or want to comment or tell me at length how much they don't care (hi mob): http://tinyurl.com/6ra7jof
I hope you understand what evolution means better than the last guy! :D Science is really cool, it's sad when people act like they know it when they don't.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Sunday 5 February, 2012 at 05:22
What do you like to do when you are feeling sick?
I haven't been sick since ████ ███████ ███████ cybernetic ████████████ and integration. It's one of the perks, really.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Sunday 5 February, 2012 at 05:24
I support Ani Hess. Things for mutants are way better than they were in my 1984 but they still aren't as good as they should be, especially for those who cannot "pass." Why should I have to suppress my fire aura when it is only light and not heat?
Um, my father's family fled WW2 Germany because of racial segregation, and I grew up in █████, Michigan, which if you're not aware, has been made a little dangerous due to the presence of metahumans of all stripes - heck, the whole state has! - so I might not really have a great idea of what it's like to live with the suppression situation.
I think that you're really lucky, actually, since you can pass! There are more than a few mutants who cannot. On the other hand, @Stheras, for example, probably gets treated very differently, and he can't pass, and people might even assume he's a mutant!
pressdotexe
responded to AvengeAmethyst
on Sunday 5 February, 2012 at 05:26
Does your reputation precede you? Does that reputation ever cause you problems? Does it create benefits for you? How do you handle it?
In games? Absolutely! When I last played SF4, I was told "███████ Isn't a Man, He's a Machine Sent From The Future To Keep Us Humble." I'm pretty good!
But in work, oh, really, really, no. I don't think anyone has ever heard of me, and I don't think anyone who has met me would really expect me to do the work I do.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Sunday 5 February, 2012 at 05:28
Sorry my question was dumb last night it was the middle of the night. TechnicallyEva doesn't want me hanging out with AnbaricAmethyst and thinks she's still a villain. Have you ever been in between two people fighting over you? What did you do?
I remember a period where there were three ladies who really thought we had made a connection because I spoke to them in pocket D about their feelings and was interested in what they did and how they did it. Then they 'found out' about each other and thought I was 'cheating' on all of them. It was very embarassing, because I really wasn't interested in any of them. D=
pressdotexe
responded to ControlAndCare
on Sunday 5 February, 2012 at 05:28
Leave Ani alone! You are lucky e even performed for you BASTARDS! Leave Ani alone!…right now!….I mean it!
Remember, with punctuation marks, they're either alone (! , ?) or in threes (... !!! ???), or a truck will eat you.
pressdotexe
on Sunday 5 February, 2012 at 06:38
You are faced with a situation in which there are /only/ two options. A ne'er-do-well has hijacked a weapon. The choice of whether 140,000,000 Evolved die or the remainder of the inferior population does is in your hands. Your choice is?
This question is just adorable!
This stuff doesn't happen.
Nobody has to make these kind of decisions.
And that's not just good luck.
B)
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Sunday 5 February, 2012 at 07:30
Hmm. I am in a prickly mood this evening. Let us discuss tangential hypotheticals: A rogue of artificial intelligences band themselves under one banner, requesting sovereignty from other nations. Should they be accepted? If yes, under what conditions?
... You think this hasn't happened?
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Sunday 5 February, 2012 at 08:07
(( OOC: Okay now, I simply have to have Madonna's Superbowl outfit for Amber. It's mega stunning. What do you think? Awesome or not? ))
((You can't make me care about the superbowl, pony!))
pressdotexe
responded to AzureTracer
on Monday 6 February, 2012 at 01:34
I am sorry, I have disabled my old phone so he can not access my account now.
I'm sorry you were subjected to an act of identity theft. D: This form of cyber-bullying is really unfortunate and terrible, and I hope that you have the means to bring some sort of punishment to bear on the perpetrator!
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Monday 6 February, 2012 at 02:19
In your professional capacity would you put greater priority on being feared, or loved?
In my professional capacity as a ████ ████████ █████████ ██████████, I suppose neither is actually important. ███████ makes a point of being relatively unknown, and relatively unsupported. That lack of structure gives us independence.
So I suppose I'm part of a ███governmental structure that's focused on being recognised and respected as part of that usual rule of 'play nice' that most governments engage in. When someone's kidnapping policemen, you call the federal authorities; when someone's kidnapping ██████████, you don't have to call in people like us.
█████ told me to say 'We're the last thing the bad guys never see,' but his job is to run in the front door so I think he's just being glib.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Monday 6 February, 2012 at 09:34
Just by the by, doesn't anybody know that Antarctica isn't available for this theoretical AI nation? Just because there's no major civilisation there, doesn't mean it's up for grabs. Most of it belongs to Australia.
It's a hypothetical AI nation, not a theoretical one. And the actual AI nation ███████ ███ ████████████ ██████ ██ ████████ ██████ ██████████ ███ ████ ██████ does ████ ███ ██████████, ██ ███ ███████ █████ ████ ██ ██ ████ ██ not exist.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 6 February, 2012 at 09:35
When a friend is feeling down, what do you do to cheer them up?
I usually offer to loan them a Dreamcast and a copy of Skies of Arcadia if they're an RPG fan, or a NDS and a copy of Kirby's Mass Attack. Things that make you hopeful and happy.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Monday 6 February, 2012 at 09:36
((An idle thought, as I think before going to bed: How do you /want/ your character to be perceived by NPCs? We know players can perceive how and what they like, and that's fine... but are you famous? Feared? Loved? I wonder.))
((Swivel should be regarded by anyone who meets him out-of-uniform as an easily embarassed blushy, shy, stammery geek, anyone who meets him in an in-game arena as a terrifying monster that makes dread cthulu seem kittenish, anyone who meets him on the battlefield as a stoic, silent unstoppable hurting machine and by the public at large as not existing.))
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 6 February, 2012 at 03:35
How much control do you have?
Not enough that I'm not grateful for ██████.███'s occasional need to █████ ██ ██. Some of the ███████ were very unpleasant.
In video games, too much. In competitive play it's unfair for me to use my direct interface, so I make sure to have the latest and most fair physical media. I've got Razers and Nagas and Logitechs and Wingmen and Thrustmasters and a PS2 IBM keyboard from 1994, the first run to have function keys up to 12, and it still works fine.
pressdotexe
responded to AvengeAmethyst
on Monday 6 February, 2012 at 03:36
Speaking with @KyleSands inspired a question. What powers or abilities, if any, do you possess that are uncategorized or have gone unrecorded by the powers-that-be? How often do you make use of them?
I think I am the ██████ ████ ██, if people get technical about it.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Monday 6 February, 2012 at 03:36
What is your favorite dessert?
███. Or really buttery cookies served with a creamy drink like a milkshake.
pressdotexe
on Monday 6 February, 2012 at 06:57
What is the worse crime? Starting a war or supplying better weapons for said war? Why?
A war can be started by a good man refusing to do the wrong thing. A weapon can be supplied by a breakthrough in a medical exploratory surgery technique.
Neither of these things are crimes in and of themselves.
pressdotexe
responded to CareAndControl
on Monday 6 February, 2012 at 09:36
So, tell me about the space bubble. Did they ever solve the issue with gas buildup?
To very quickly summarise for people reading along: The Paschten space-bubble experiment is a hypothetical idea tabled by Dr Armand Paschten, who is actually a xenobiologist tackling the notion of panspermia. His argument is that life forms in transit don't have to necessarily spend their time in stasis, meaning evolution can occur in a closed space-bound environment before impact.
The experiment involves taking the colonic flora of a regenerating metahuman. In observation, these colonies of bacteria are put under a much higher strain than normal and tend to have even shorter reproductive cycles than normal bacteria, as well as being hard-wired to try and become more and more efficient. You put this flora into a soup, in a large quantity - easily a hundred kilograms - and provide it with a 'seed' of degrading matter that it can consume in stages. This is just to kick the whole experiment off. Paschten referred to this as 'the soup.'
This soup is then stored in a sphere, which is stored in a slightly larger sphere with insulating material to control for cosmic radiation, and then the whole thing is dropped into free orbit over earth. The orbit would ideally be one that gave it long exposure to the sun, and if possible, up near a pole so that the sphere never went without sunlight.
Paschten hypothesised within a few short years you'd have multicellular organisms forming inside these spheres, and maybe even primitive nerve clusters.
Paschten's writing on the bubble has the somewhat optimistic projection that the gas problem would solve itself in a few generations as the colonies would want to avoid suffocation and natural selection would ensure those that could procreate without creating an excess of gas would be most successful, as well as organisms to consume the gas.
Ironically, the gas problem was used to deride the idea in public forums. Most people know Paschten as the man with the 'space farts' more than a xenobiologist.
Nonetheless! Studies in Australia and New Zealand have found a number of animals with colonic bacteria that don't produce any gasses at all - kangaroos, kiwis and a few other forms of wildlife - who might be able to be templated into the 'soup.'
Hopefully this is an interesting avenue to explore for further thought experiments on self-sustaining ecologies!
pressdotexe
responded to CareAndControl
on Monday 6 February, 2012 at 09:52
Now the real question is... What would the meat from the sphere taste like? Okay, I guess it would be barely any proper muscle meat, but you know what I mean.
Well, I don't think you'd get 'meat' per se. The thing with the /experiment/ as it's outlaid is that it's meant to solve the problem of indefinite stasis. A minority of a minority of cells can survive a planetary ejection event and a minority of a minority of cells can survive a planetary arrival event, and of those, a minority of a minority can go into stasis for long journeys between planetary bodies.
I mean, actually making them would be something like... a few hundred million dollars, to get them up there and do all the math? What came out of them would be earth-origin but it would basically be an alien life form, and unless you made the sphere very, very big you're not looking at something much larger than a trout or flatfish. If the evolution went towards a plant design rather than an autonomic design - you might get... this is pure hypothesis? You mgiht get a very woody, very soft kind of 'plant meat' that was completely jet black because there's no light pollution.
On the other hand, it might all become one large thermophagic cell, in which case it'd probably be a lot like... like a big piece of crab meat, really. Probably lacking in salt and with only the most minimal of fats.
Does that make sense?
pressdotexe
responded to CareAndControl
on Monday 6 February, 2012 at 10:41
Musical Monday, I guess: Don't you just hate it when someone does a shitty cover of a song you love?
I'm generally against shitty covers of things.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Tuesday 7 February, 2012 at 01:33
What's a good college/university for metahumans or is metahuman friendly that isn't anywhere near Rhode Island? Any recommendations?
If we presume 'near' Rhode Island is within 2 days' drive, a preliminary web search find 280 different options. Controlling for places in English-speaking countries on Continental America, you're still looking at over 35.
Sending details to your email address now.
pressdotexe
responded to ceruleanvenus
on Tuesday 7 February, 2012 at 01:58
I've heard that there's a time and place for things to be said. I'm beginning to think there's sometimes never a time for some things. Is it sometimes better to say nothing at all and just keep your feelings to yourself?
That question asks two things. The answer to the first one is yes. The answer to the second is never.
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Tuesday 7 February, 2012 at 02:42
Fill in the blanks with the first thing that springs to mind: "The _____ of _____".
Ides of March.
I'm boring. :(
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Tuesday 7 February, 2012 at 03:37
On the topic of redemption... is forgiving yourself a necessary part of being truly redeemed?
Nobody but you can tell you when you're redeemed, and you can't forgive yourself. You don't have the right to forgive yourself of things you've done to anyone *but* yourself.
Forgiveness comes from big hearts and bad memories.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Tuesday 7 February, 2012 at 03:37
TMIT: Inspired by Paul's Q, kinda. How many partners have you had? How many good? How many bad? Any that you miss? Any that you seriously regret? How many were Norms? How many were Metas? Were any robots? How was it?
Is it appropriate to tell you this? D=
pressdotexe
responded to HiroAntagonist
on Tuesday 7 February, 2012 at 03:38
TMI Tuesday: We all did stupid things as teenagers. What's somethin' idiotic you did?
When I was a teenager, I and ███ friends went out after school to waste time in an overpass culvert, and while we were there, we lied to the Angry Eagles patroller who passed by and told us it was dangerous. He thought we were drug dealers and we wound up getting chased home by a metahuman who could duplicate himself.
pressdotexe
responded to TechnicallyEva
on Wednesday 8 February, 2012 at 01:55
What techniques do you use to help you make painfully difficult decisions involving close friends and family? I find myself quite desperate for suggestions about what I should do about Amber.
If it's something that's for the good of the mission or the team, we take it like adults, and we have a command structure for a reason. If it's personal, well, yeah, mostly I just sheepishly mumble and hope people realise that my friends need to give me a lot of help there and I'm willing to do whatever I can and am grateful for their understanding.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Wednesday 8 February, 2012 at 01:55
Is it bad to want to change something of your own if no one else wants you to?
If nobody else wants you to?
I don't know. If it's something that's good for you, surely your friends owuld support it...?
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Wednesday 8 February, 2012 at 01:55
What's the last thing you learned just by listening to someone?
I downloaded some of Paschten's lectures from his university campus' website.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Wednesday 8 February, 2012 at 02:36
If you were given a free pass to re-design one of your fellow FS'ers costumes, who would it be and what would you do?
My sister dresses like a 90s pro-wrestler who has to wear a shirt for contractual reasons.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Wednesday 8 February, 2012 at 05:46
WYR Wednesday: Say you have a beloved friend with inoperable throat cancer. Would you rather he look unusual and be immune to the cancer, or take pills to be pretty that let him slowly die?
Can't you two just ████ already? D=
pressdotexe
responded to jillwilliamson
on Wednesday 8 February, 2012 at 06:59
So, um. I went through some magical ritual work with a friend today. I came out the other side a little different than I'm used to, but it's exactly what I wanted. Have you ever risked your life for something that might not have worked? Why'd you do it?
Yes, I did. It's an occupational hazard for me. Fortunately, I have friends who will beat probability up and take its lunch money.
The biggest risk I ever took for something that might not work was delving into a submarine base that was mostly rotted and full of Leviathan goop to try and find out my father's real name. It was part of the mission, but the information was a NEMO - a non-essential mission objective. And because of that, I got to meet my sister. Who is amazing.
And puts too much ketchup on the fries.
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Wednesday 8 February, 2012 at 10:20
Few people are wholly unique. Can you name names to those who are just like you, in genetic code or origin, or augmentation? How does the knowledge of their existence affect you? Does it make you feel less special, or less alone?
I'm a prototype.
One day there will be more, but I'm the one who gets to find out about a lot of really, really inconvenient problems.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Wednesday 8 February, 2012 at 10:22
What were you like in high school? And for those of you who are IN high school, do you fit a role?
I dunno. I wasn't very nerdy and shy, but honestly, it looks like a great big ████ in my memory.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 8 February, 2012 at 10:23
Do you ever feel like you are not a part of the world? That you are disconnected from it?
I'm everywhere, ████!. My thoughts get to jump to space and back into my head and on the way I get to see people buying new french polishers and talking about their kids' bicycles and far too many people on Facebook doing :V
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 8 February, 2012 at 10:24
What excites you?
Games. Quiet.█████████. The look Backbeat gets when she's about to yell 'Woo' and do something ██████ ███████ ██████-dumb.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Wednesday 8 February, 2012 at 10:24
(( OOC: So...OBVIOUSLY the yogurt and Yum Yo's was tainted with evil spirits. What's the last thing you ate that made you sick. How long before you tried it again? ))
((Mango. I had a mango in primary school once that was on the bad side of turning, and it tasted like dirt. I cannot eat mango any more. You'd think nineteen years would be enough to get over it, but...))
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Wednesday 8 February, 2012 at 10:25
Travelling seems to be on my mind right now. How many different timezones have you ever visited? And has it mostly been for work or fun?
All of them.
You should know that.
You were THERE.
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Wednesday 8 February, 2012 at 10:31
Do you like "ballad" type songs that tell a story - like 'Spanish Train' or 'What Made America Famous'? If yes, name one of your favourites I should go listen to.
pressdotexe
responded to MonkeyLass
on Thursday 9 February, 2012 at 04:36
Booze! Everyone loves booze! What's your favorite one? A cocktail? A beer? Sun Wumei demands answers!
██.
Try demanding harder?
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Thursday 9 February, 2012 at 04:37
If you could officiate any two Formspringer's wedding, who would it be and why? What vows would you have them repeat?
I guess if I had to officiate it'd be between @MaxImpact and @CareAndControl, since they're the ████████ targets. Then again, as far as vows go, probably an █████████? Maybe a ████████ drop? It's pretty hard to make these kind of judgement calls, especially if it's a white wedding.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Thursday 9 February, 2012 at 08:28
((How often, and how aggressively, do you use inspirations? Is your insp tray full often?))
((First and foremost, I am a complete snob about playing the game in a lot of ways.
My inspiration tray is only full if I am not playing. It can fill up in the last few minutes of a mission, or fill up between missions as I buy insps with /auctionhouse. I know what every character I have wants to use. Characters who are soft-capped (like Cearmaid or Niryu) do not pick up purples, they grab oranges. Everyone can use some reds.
I use inspiration binds to 'burn' chaff inspirations of the smallest tier. I long ago learned I hated turning off points of my interface (common binds t, c, and n), so I use those keys for character-specitic utility. N is usually the character's idle emote, but C is my 'insp chugger' button, that turns everything unneeded into reds, eats them, and also processes purples and oranges or the like.
Presented here, if anyone wants to copy them, are some of the binds I use:
Eats oranges, destroys purples. This bind is for characters who live at the soft-cap and therefore can get no benefit from any extra defence except in corner cases. /bind c "inspcombine insight enrage$$inspcombine catch_a_breath enrage$$inspcombine respite enrage$$inspcombine break_free enrage$$inspcombine luck enrage$$inspexecname enrage$$inspexecname sturdy$$inspdelete awaken$$inspdelete bounceback"
Eats purples, destroys oranges. Same in reverse. Some of my characters are capped against a damage type and only fight that damage type, hence this. /bind c "inspcombine insight enrage$$inspcombine catch_a_breath enrage$$inspcombine respite enrage$$inspcombine break_free enrage$$inspcombine sturdy enrage$$inspexecname enrage$$inspexecname luck$$inspdelete awaken$$inspdelete bounceback"
Eats reds, purples and oranges. This is the general-purpose one that most characters get when they're levelling. This is the one Swivel uses, and it makes him rather absurdly strong. It does get wonky on larger maps because I will routinely solo at the damage cap for a scrapper, and eating more reds then is a waste. /bind c "inspcombine insight enrage$$inspcombine catch_a_breath enrage$$inspcombine respite enrage$$inspcombine break_free enrage$$inspexecname enrage$$inspexecname luck$$inspexecname sturdy$$inspdelete awaken$$inspdelete bounceback"
Leaves blues, and eats oranges, purples, reds. /bind c "inspcombine insight enrage$$inspcombine respite enrage$$inspcombine break_free enrage$$inspexecname enrage$$inspexecname sturdy$$inspexecname luck$$inspdelete awaken"
I am a strong advocate for using inspirations well and aggressively. I have never mastered how masterminds hand their insps around, and it explains why my one MM has such a hard time pushing content as hard as I'm used to.))
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Thursday 9 February, 2012 at 08:33
You got a nickname, aside from your hero name/formspring name? If not, do you have a special nickname for anybody else?
█, from you, and that's pretty much it. I'm not smooth enough to give people nicknames. D=
pressdotexe
responded to HiroAntagonist
on Thursday 9 February, 2012 at 08:38
You wake up tomorrow, and suddenly you're Robin Hood. Who in your connections are your Merry Men (there were four in most stories)? Who's Maid Marian? Alan-a-Dale? The Sheriff of Nottingham?
Oh! This is easy.
I'm not Robin Hood. I'm Will Scarlet. █████████ ██████ is Robin Hood. Saxon is Little John. Honeytrap is Maid Marion, who secretly is conspiring to bring down the government from within and doesn't spend her time sitting around waiting to be rescued. Downplay is Much the Miller's son because nobody remembers who he is. And Arslan is Friar Tuck because she'd really like the chance to be terrible at being a priest!
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Friday 10 February, 2012 at 12:02
So hey. On my psych quiz there's a moral choice Q. So I thought I'd throw it out to my friends. Say that you find this baby who will grow up to be super evil and could kill millions. Do you try to raise it to be good and hope? Or end it there? Why?
This presumes a non-quantum universe in which nobody has the capability to change from their point of genesis and therefore is a hypothetical question that serves no useful purpose to inform or illuminate!
Do I pass? D=
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Friday 10 February, 2012 at 12:02
What do you feel you deserve?
Every bit of scorn I get from people online who think I'm cheating.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Friday 10 February, 2012 at 12:03
How do you find the strength to do what you know in your heart is right?
Doesn't that answer itself?
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Friday 10 February, 2012 at 12:03
So hey. I like got my first job. Awesome. What was your first job? Did you like it?
I worked as a paper boy. On my first day, someone shot at me! I didn't have a second day.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Friday 10 February, 2012 at 12:55
What is your favorite month of the year?
I love the first half of december.
pressdotexe
responded to jillwilliamson
on Friday 10 February, 2012 at 12:59
This has been a -great- day. I can change back and forth now, there's no problems, AAAAND I have someone special in my life. And I may have helped Vince, too! Today deserves a parade. Have you had a great day recently? What happened to make it that way?
Hey! Here's a bit of a parade!
And I had a really nice day a few weeks ago in █████! It's pretty terrible there if you're a █████, █████ person, ███, ████, ████, or ██████ ███, but after that day, I can say that there's at least one family that are making things better, and one orphanage that won't have to worry about ███████ any more! So I got to remind myself that I'm one of the good guys. I also ████ ██ █ █████ and dodged an ███ █████, before ███████ ████ ███ ████ ██ a skyscraper! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i7B5aHafc0
pressdotexe
on Friday 10 February, 2012 at 04:16
Where do you see yourself in five years?
On the unsexier side of 30 D=
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Friday 10 February, 2012 at 04:23
How easily do you trust?
In my line of work, I don't, at all, ever! The people I went into the mission I trust, but no new entities can be trusted, no matter what - they have to be carefully regarded!
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Friday 10 February, 2012 at 04:27
Do you have a secret that you would take to the grave, if you could? If so... how heavy is it upon your heart?
Oh, I have HEAPS! I like, have a photo album full of them!
They aren't heavy at all! It's only a problem if you need to tell people everything. And there's plenty of interesting stuff that's worth sharing!
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Friday 10 February, 2012 at 04:24
So, there I was in the D last night BEING GOOD and this guy with an eagle for a head came up and said "Wizard needs food badly." What's that supposed mean? I was embarrassed to ask at the time.
He might have been making a metaphor for how his girlfriend doesn't appreciate his interests?
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Friday 10 February, 2012 at 07:07
It's Friday. Can you reach out and pay a compliment to someone?
@letitglow encourages people to be nice to one another!
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Friday 10 February, 2012 at 09:38
Friendly Friday-related question: How much friendliness can you take from someone, before you start getting uncomfortable?
Like, almost none. Some ladies interpret my manner and my stammeryness as specific to them and therefore I've had a few do things like play with my hair or touch my neck and that really, really upsets me and I don't know why.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Friday 10 February, 2012 at 09:38
I liked the response from this question so much, that I wanted to ask again. If there is any advice you could bestow upon me personally - what would it be?
I know that thinking is bad But doing's much worse
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 11 February, 2012 at 01:16
I must be naive or truly blind. Is racism really still that much of an issue? I've never been subjected to it until I began dating Max. I think I could find worse things to be upset over than a biracial couple.
Of course you haven't.
You're pretty and white.
You've experienced sexism instead.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Saturday 11 February, 2012 at 04:01
Have you ever seriously considered suicide?
No. Suicide is a luxury good, and when I was in a bad mental state, I couldn't afford luxuries.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 11 February, 2012 at 03:59
Picking a FS'er of your choice and without naming who, you have 24hrs to do whatever you wish! Be it going to Disneyland, having a all-out fight, or rap battle, etc... tell us what you'd do.
She and I would meet in the middle of an operation, and we'd fight. I'd win, and disarm her, while dodging sniper fire. Then she'd re-arm herself, come back at me for a second pass while I'm extracting, and we'd fight again, except this time she'd get a cut, like, on her face or something? And then she'd wipe it with the back of her hand and /growl/ and swing at me again, and then the extraction tether would yank and I'd be up, up, and away, saluting with one hand while she shakes her weapon at me angrily with the other.
And she'll internalise all that rage and frustration and she'll be alll >:| and :o and :O and wonder what her boyfriend would think of bringing me in, and THEN when she meets me later when I'm out of uniform because she doesn't look at people the way normal people do she'll recognise me she'll be all O.o and wonder wtf she was thinking and how could that guy be hot?! He's such a dork!
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 11 February, 2012 at 04:00
Your friend's being bothered by something. What do you do: get them to talk about it, or get them to talk about anything BUT it?
Anything but. Some people are good at talking about those things that bug their friends but I'm not one. If I ask I get all socratic and I just ask questions until they answer themselves. But if I help it's all luck.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Saturday 11 February, 2012 at 04:01
So hey. Heroes (or Villains) without costumes. Thoughts? (Either in street clothes or nude, I guess)
A uniform means that when I'm not wearing it, nobody knows who I am. That's really useful!
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Saturday 11 February, 2012 at 04:02
Do you like tattoos?
I have some from my time in █████. Then I met Saxon, who makes tattoos, and he does it in this really, REALLY old-fashioned style, and who has this huge book with wooden front and back full of designs, each one written up with this beautiful bit of gaelic poetry which explains what they mean to him as an artist and I felt like a bit of a silly poser. D=
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 11 February, 2012 at 04:28
Who pronounces your name correctly? Everyone? Nobody? Real name, hero name?
I have a German ops coordinator who pronounces it with the V and W reversed. And it makes me giggle inside my mask.
pressdotexe
responded to HiroAntagonist
on Saturday 11 February, 2012 at 05:40
Do you know someone with powers similar to yours? Have you ever seen powers like your used in ways you haven't considered before?
I'm a prototype. @Zexecutioner has some things in common with me, and @NemesisLives has some as well from the other direction, but not really, no. 99% of my powers are things that a totally normal person could do, done faster and more efficiently and without certain normal constraints.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Saturday 11 February, 2012 at 05:41
Since we're talking about powers. I have to use like a specific movement, almost like a
T'ai Chi kind of thing in order to call up a certain power. Do you have any moves like that or is it like a more mental thing?
When I fight I use a set of blades in one hand, and my other hand empty, or wearing a knuckle-duster. When you use a knife, though, you have to approach every fight knowing someone will be cut.
pressdotexe
responded to HiroAntagonist
on Saturday 11 February, 2012 at 05:42
If you have them, do you know the upper limits of your powers? Have you ever tested them?
/REM there is no mission objective that █████ Swivel is not capable of completing if authority are willing to accept the possibility of █████████████ losses in terms of █████ ████ or property
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 11 February, 2012 at 06:04
I talk a lot about workplace stuff. What about you? What's something funny or sweet that's happened to you in your line of work that sticks in your memory?
Oh, heaps. Why just yesterday
pressdotexe
responded to SovereignFist
on Sunday 12 February, 2012 at 03:58
Don't answer questions with a question and leave comments disabled. Cmon. Dont be that guy. K?
I don't wanna be THAT guy either! D=
pressdotexe
responded to SovereignFist
on Sunday 12 February, 2012 at 05:33
What would you do for 1000 dollars? :D
I'd buy you one thousandth of a green dress!
pressdotexe
responded to AvengeAmethyst
on Sunday 12 February, 2012 at 05:34
@TechnicallyEva said something earlier that I found more disturbing than her usual utterances. She mentioned the profit her company hoped to make with any conflict in the Middle East. Is this any way for Woman of Justice to behave?
Well, speaking as something a company profits of due to conflict in the Middle East I'm pretty okay with it.
pressdotexe
responded to TheNoisebomb
on Sunday 12 February, 2012 at 07:19
ever nearly get something you really wanted, only for it to turn out to be different than what you thought it would be? tell a bro about it.
I have the impression that ████ of this is going to be ██████.
I have a few pretty big ones. My ███████ █████████ that resulted in my █████ state. Getting out of ██████ early.
I did think finding out about my father would be a really hard thing. I thought I was going to learn that my father and mother were deliberately designed to mess me up. It turns out I was half-right. My adopted parents in ████ were being manipulated by █████, hence ███ losing his job when he did, for example. It was really, really horrible but instead of making me feel like the people who tried to raise me were part of this shadowy government conspiracy, I found myself feeling really bad for them.
Officially, they think I'm dead, and all my ██████ have been ████████, so it's a bit of a shame, but I do think of them fondly and donate to charities in the area they're living and hope it helps them somehow.
My actual father, on the other hand, was a ███ like me! Well, not like me, because I'm all █████. He is - or was, at the time - totally normal, but took some scientific tests after I was sampled, and so he kinda has a 'super'power now that isn't very super at all. Unless you count getting to date girls younger than me! D= But it also meant I met my sister! Who also dates girls yougner than me! D=
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Sunday 12 February, 2012 at 04:11
Do you feel that you need others to be as smart or as intelligent as you, in order to enjoy their company?
Oh, no. My friends are all very special in their own ways, and even strangers I meet have wonderful insights into things that fall into their areas of expertise. It helps that everything is interesting.
pressdotexe
responded to laylaward
on Sunday 12 February, 2012 at 04:12
Today is the anniversary of my mother's passing. I hate to be selfish, but does anyone have any kind words?..
Here: There's nothing selfish in this question.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 12 February, 2012 at 04:12
How much do you worry? What do you worry about? What recently?
Why worry? Be happy!
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Sunday 12 February, 2012 at 11:38
Said Voltaire: "Doubt is an uncomfortable emotion, but certainty is an absurd one." Do you agree with this? Or disagree?
We live in a world of probability and of tiny fragmented rarities coming true more often than not. Any individual particle in our whole world is just a probability of a position of energy. So I'd say I agree!
pressdotexe
responded to CareAndControl
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 05:19
Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
████?
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 05:20
If you could visit someone's dreams, who would it be and what do you imagine you'd find there?
@PlasmaCutter01 - she seems so very normal and nice, it seems like it'd be a place where there was a surprise lurking!
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 05:20
What was your "highest" level of education--and what was your most interesting?
Every day is an interesting opportunity to learn! A gentleman must be prepared to embrace information at every step!
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:40
What do you like about your home town?
The good people there are really, really good. They have to be.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:40
To broaden a question Aglow asked earlier: forget your own, what's the weirdest superstition you've heard of?
I know someone who refuses to hear me say anything aloud because she thinks a stutter is my soul trying to escape. I have to write everything I want to tell her on pieces of plain paper.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:41
A friend has used public space to comission graffiti artists to depict you punching out a dinosaur. Is this awesome, y/n?
I like dinosaurs D=
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:41
Misunderstanding Monday: What's something you'd like to (or frequently find yourself having to) clarify about your job?
I'm head of communications. That's my job title.
pressdotexe
responded to CareAndControl
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:43
Stupid Random Game Time: Nickname another Formspringer without telling us who it is.
The Quiet Riot
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:44
Now, what is something you admire on a fellow Formspringer?
This kind of question makes me wish I stuttered online.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:45
If a complete stranger gave you a million dollars what would you do with it?
Smile politely, then walk back to the extraction point while I waited for ██ to tell me she had a firing solution.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:45
What is something you were forced to give up? Something you willingly gave up? Be it material or inanimate.
I gave up the privacy inside my own head. Which I almost think is both.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:47
If you could give one thing to another person without repercussion, cost, etc - what would it be and why?
A █████ of ██████ ███ with ███, █████████, ████, ███, and ████████, where ████████ had ████ of ██ and ██████.
I bet this once's censored.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:47
Do any of you know an illusionist for hire?
We've seen softlight hologram tech being used for something like illusion, does that count?
pressdotexe
responded to totallywitchin
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:47
Does anyone else here have a touch of the ADD? I can't be the only one, right? If you do, how do you deal with it?
I pay attention to everything at once. It really helps to have a constant source of interesting feedback.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:47
Music Monday: Get the drop on romantic songs early. Post your theme song for your one and only today!
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:49
If you could see any two FS'ers brawl for charity; who would it be?
It would be very, very funny to see me fight ██████.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:50
"The unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates
How much do you agree? Do you examine all bouts of feelings or emotions, or leave them be to for your own safety?
Perhaps too literally, I'm familiar with the idea of the self that is watched, the self that watches, and the self that watches the self that watches. We all examine ourselves, it's just how much attention we pay to ourselves that matters. Some people - like @Cearmaid and @TrulyKazeno - do it too much, some people - like ███ or ████ - do it too little.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:51
Are you more prone to nightmares or dreams? What did you last dream about?
I decompile while I sleep. I don't really have either.
I last dreamt about waking up during anasthesia. D= But that was years and years ago.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:54
Do you finish your vegetables?
Ick.
I guess I have to.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:55
Do you save money or does it just seem to fly through your fingers as fast as it comes in?
I don't worry much about money. But I also collect things that are relatively inexpensive.
pressdotexe
responded to CareAndControl
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 06:57
Musical Monday: Post a song spooking around your head today.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 07:40
That does count. So you know someone?
I know several someones. If you like, and this is for hero work, I can talk to Downplay, who will probably very angrily tell you how stupid an idea it is then do it anyway.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 07:57
If it's really something they would be against I wouldn't want to bother them with it..
Downplay is against everything. Especially if it involves taking a device that works and then using it for things.
He's a little grumpy. D=
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 09:25
Seen anything strange lately?
Not really, no.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 09:27
What is the first thing to your right? The last thing you held? The last thing you let go? Last person you texted? The first person you wanted to speak to today?
████████ █████ formula. A dreamcast controller. A perfect streak on ikaruga to answer a formspring bleep. █████████ █████. Downplay.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 13 February, 2012 at 09:27
Have you ever lost control to later regret it?
Oh, absolutely. ████ ████ █████. ███ ███ ████. ██'█ ███████, and I ████ ███ ████ ██ every day.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 01:08
With regards to Valentine's Day: do you believe it to be possible to love more than one person at a time in the same way? How do /you/ differentiate?
I love a lot of my friends in exactly the same way, so I think this question is easily misread.
I assume you mean romantic love? In which case I'd need some sort of experience to know. Most stories that have been written about it tend to be cautionary.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 03:43
What's the worst book you ever finished reading? Not just got sick of and threw against the wall in disgust.
Daniel Brown's Angel and Demons.
D=
Just D=
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 03:44
(Each one of Aglow's Formspring connections she has physical addresses for will or have received a thick card stock of eggshell white, upon it handpainted is a simple red heart and written underneath in feminine scrawl is "Happy Valentine's Day".)
((It took me two reads of this to realise it wasn't actual *easter egg* with the message written on it.))
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 05:22
((Who do you like to imagine opposes your character? Single opponents of a particular style? Armies? Major NPC groups? What would round out your character's personal rogues' gallery?))
((Swivel is a badass superspy, working for an NGO. Anything he does should be so shadowy and hidden that nobdy really sees it in-game. Heading things off before they're a problem, removing the Too Big Problems by anticipation.
I usually envision Swivel shredding big packs of mooks, or, running from supers who outclass him who he wouldn't want to fight anyway.))
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 05:22
How many hair colours - at once - is too many?
I don't think I technically have ANY hair colour!
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 05:26
Is there something you leave broken because you want to come back to fixing it more than you want it fixed?
No and that's crazy talk.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 03:28
Who's your Valentine?
Nobody. I'm not sad, though - it's a day like any other, and it's a day about people celebrating love. I think it's important to be glad for other people! ███ ███ ████. A lot.
pressdotexe
responded to AzureTracer
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 03:29
((Just a heads up. I have been notified by the host of Virtueverse and Unionverse that the servers are being physically moved to a new data center from Friday, February 17th at 8PM EST to approx 8AM EST. The sites will be 100% unavailable.))
((Thanks for the heads up.))
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 03:31
A song for today?
A song just, just for today?
It's a day. The sun has risen, the wind is blowing, there's some smoke from a wooden smoking house a few blocks away from me. I can smell bacon and people are driving a littmore cautiously.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 03:34
If you do not have a Valentine, do you wish you did? In someone particular or in general? If not, how will you be celebrating the Hallmark holiday?
Not really. I mean, I've got a lot of anime that make a big deal out of it! I certainly appreciate the romance of it, and I like reading stories about it, but I like reading stories about high schoolers who save the world, and I'm not one of those either.
I celebrate Valentine's day the way I celeberate the end of Lent, or the beginning of Eucharist. It's not a day for me, but it's a day for those to whom it matters, so who am I to sit around pouting?
Plus I'm deployed to █████ ███ right now which is really not a good place for Hallmark sales.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 03:34
Are you a secret admirer or do you have one?
I have to admire secrets, since I have so many!
I don't have any secret admirers, though. Most people I know who like me are very open about it, usually to my embarassment.
pressdotexe
responded to totallywitchin
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 03:35
Happy S.A.D everyone. XD
You're from Portland, right?
Happy Oregon Acceptance Day!
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 03:38
Post your love confessions! It's TMI Valentine's Day Tuesday! Secret crushes, late night rendezvous, long lost loves, and my personal fave - new flames! Confess. Confess! :-)
████, even though ███'s married? ███████. ████ and I. ██████████, because she has white hair like me. If I was ████████ again ███████ you ███ ██. And I thought ██████ was really hot when I first met her which made the whole sister thing super awkward. In fact, I've met two of my female relatives who I didn't realise were related to me, and both times I remember thinking they were really hot! D=
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 03:38
(stolen from @skewerstrike ) What does it take to be happy? Do things have to be good, or is it enough for them to just not be bad?
You have to make happiness. So make it everywhere!
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 03:45
Did you know one month from today is Steak and BJ day?
I thought everyone hated silly made up holidays!
Actually, March 14 is known as White Day in Japan. Because of the degree of segregation and a desire to avoid embarssment in schools' social situations, it's very, very common for only girls to give anything on Valentines' day. They give milk chocolate or dark chocolate (which is often meant as a signal that the receiver of the chocolate is 'dark,' such as wears glasses, has a cold personality type, or is older) to the boys that interest them.
A month later, the boys who received chocolate are meant to give white chocolate to the girls that they actually like to reciprocate, because white chocolate is sweeter.
It is an odd tradition that I think started because chocolate companies are smart, but it also adds a dynamic where girls will give chocolate to several boys as a passive, safe way of saying 'I am interested in you' and the boys can reciprocate in a similarly passive, safe way.
It's also the eve before the assassination of Julius Caesar (Brutus' Eve), the anniversary of the first performance of the Mikado (!), Slovakian Independence Day, the day they buried Jack Kennedy AND the day they conviced Jack Ruby, and the birthday of Albert Einstein!
So there's clearly a lot of room in the day for your Steak And ██ day, I think.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 03:47
Write a short and sweet poem to a person you admire. If your talents not lie with poetry, perhaps a small doodle to let them know you're thinking of them today.
Blue ████ and Hair Fists rising, skies whitening █████ justice incarnate And Justice strikes like lightning!
I'm not very good at poems.
pressdotexe
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 07:17
Happy Valentine's Day to all the Formspringers that have touched my life.
This is a song that reminds me of my mother. I hope you like it too! And I hope you have a happy Valentines' day.
pressdotexe
responded to TheNoisebomb
on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 at 08:52
whats the most important quality you look for in a [ man/woman ]?
Patience. :c
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 01:26
Is there a personality trait of yours that is technically a flaw, but you're still secretly (or overtly) proud of?
No :c
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 01:27
Is there a common "dichotomy" question (Coke vs. Pepsi, Dog vs, Cat, etc.) that annoys you because you always want a third answer?
DT vs NoDT
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 01:27
If you were drawn one one of those trippin balls type heavy metal album covers, what would you look like/be doing?
I don't want to delete this one but I'm only answering it because you're my sister. I have no idea. :c
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 01:27
What's your favourite driving song?
You won't like it. It's by Daft Punk.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 04:51
I started this to one of you but fuck it, you all need to hear this: YOU ARE NOT BROKEN. You are NEVER broken. People are people and godfuckdammit if I hear someone else call someone else broken I'm going to get all Sam Gravano on people.
You're going to sell ecstasy in Arizona? :c
I'm kidding. Thank you for this. c:
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 04:52
High-heel boots and crime-fighting. Can one be both stylish and effective at the same time? What's the inspiration for your look?
I know someone who can fight in them, but he can manipulate the way his legs are structured so it's not uncomfortable. I mean, I assume that's what he does.
pressdotexe
responded to TheNoisebomb
on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 04:52
when was the last time you had the stuffing kicked out of you? i got beat up on my way home from the d last night, tell me about the last time you got taken to the own zone
█████.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 04:52
Are you happy?
I got rhythm, I got music, I got my friends.
Who could ask for anything more?
(And videogames)
(and preorder Devil Survivor 2 a month ahead of schedule eeeeeee)
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 04:53
Do you believe in anything you know isn't true?
No and that's crazy talk too.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 09:10
I... Apologize for making anyone worry. I am not sure what happened. Thank you Rosie and Gideon. Chad, I owe you breakfast.
I think FBSA can do surveillance requests on you if you ask them to nicely. It can be useful to track your own movements.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 09:11
(Also, permission to possibly use character in upcoming installments?)
((How the devil would that work))
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 09:12
So hey. Like you know that I missed like the last 27 years but @Ultimogirl posted a clip from Doctor Who. Has this show been going on the whole time? Or is this like one of thsoe reboot things people seem to love. How do you feel about reboots?
They can be handled well but they can be handled badly. For example, Transformers Superlink is basically a relaunch or reboot of the previous Armada continuity. Superlink sucks so much ass it's not even vaguely funny. But after going down that route, they made Animated, which is basically a cake made out of unicorn giggles.
((The player has /no idea/ about Doc Who. D: Swivel should probably know though!))
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 09:12
Most people like to indulge in some first-world depression now and then. Do you have a favourite tactic (sad music, standing in rain, Inspector Morse) to use when you feel like being pretend miserable for a while?
Grave of the Fireflies and any Megaten game.
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 09:12
Do you have a dream car? Do you HAVE that dream car? If you don't have/want a car, what kind of car would be best for trying to pick you up?
Yours, I guess?
pressdotexe
responded to PlagueOfWasps
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 03:06
So, this question's for the hero types. (Sorry, arbiters and doomsday weapon builders!) What makes a better day for you? Convincing a good, or an okay person from doing something bad? Or stopping a really bad guy/gal from doing something REALLY bad?
I'm not very convincing. D=
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 03:07
What's your advice for finding your way in a new high school?
Hide a lot in corners, join a club full of people that don't ask questions and avoid public spaces at all costs.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 03:07
If your little sister was bullying you to learn one of flute, bass, drums or violin, which would you choose, and why?
Flute.
Because the word embrouchure is worth knowing.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 03:08
Do you have different modes/mindsets for when you're on or off duty? Do you seem like a different person in costume? Or are you just you all the time?
I wonder if I inspired this question
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 10:14
Is it better to be above the fray, or beneath notice?
What's being above the fray mean?
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 10:14
What is the biggest motivator in your life right now?
World Peace.
You're welcome! =D
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 10:15
How good are you at identifying what's really wrong?
Not very. Occlusion testing is Downplay's forte.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 10:15
What's worth getting hurt? What wound could possibly make you walk away?
I don't think there's anything nice that's not worth getting hurt to have!
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 10:17
You've been given something handmade you really appreciate, not because of what it is, but what it's made out of. What is it?
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 10:19
What is your favorite thing about winter?
Scarves! I like how I look wearing them.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 10:20
What are the tools of your trade?
Step to some animal-leg double-strike boy, best not be frontin I go where I wantin
I am very bad at this
pressdotexe
responded to totallywitchin
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 04:31
By doctor's orders I'm supposed to lay off the Red Bull. So, can someone suggest something else to drink for energy?
I advise against drinking for energy. Drink water to catalyse things, and chew █████ ████ or █████████████ activants for your energy. I think those can actually be bought in stores. Unless there's a reason you prefer to get your energy from drinks, in which case I'm sorry! D=
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 04:32
Last time, this gave me the ability to return the favor to those who responded. So here goes again: if you could ask me anything, what would it be?
You went missing for maybe a night and it concerned everyone a great deal. Are you particularly vulnerable, and in need of protection on a routine basis?
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 04:32
So, what /did/ you get for Valentine's Day?
A white wedding. It was fun!
pressdotexe
responded to TheNoisebomb
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 04:34
describe the last three months of your life with a song!!!!
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 05:10
What is your favorite kind of ice cream?
I have a terrrrrrubl sweet tooth. They're all great.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Thursday 16 February, 2012 at 11:26
So hey, like is someone made an animated series for like TV or that D.V.D. thing - which voice actor or like regular actor would play your voice?
W-w-we-we-well if-if-if-if y-y-y-y-you th-th-think th-th-th-they'd tr-tr-tr-y and m-m-m-make it s-s-s-s-s
-s-sound like m-m-me pr-properly, I th-th--think th-they'd b-b-be best off m-m-making a d-df-dfff-diffferent cartoon.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Friday 17 February, 2012 at 03:47
(I really hate doing this because I know it's supposed to be IC, but to the 'anon': can you tone it down just a tad on the racism? That makes me pretty uncomfortable. Otherwise I enjoy your antics! <3 Thanks.)
((I honestly thought it was you trolling yourself to further the narrative. Go figure.
You can turn anons off. If it gets too much I recommend it.))
pressdotexe
responded to laylaward
on Friday 17 February, 2012 at 04:24
Happy birthday to me! When is everyone's birthday?! And your astrological signs, if you don't mind :]
██/██/██! And I think that makes me a ██████ ███ ████ ███ ██████ ██ astrology!
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Friday 17 February, 2012 at 09:46
How many beers before you're under the table? (If you don't drink you get a 0!)
One less than you. :<
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Friday 17 February, 2012 at 09:47
Fashion Friday: Which piece of clothing have you owned (or used, if you like) for the longest?
If the visor I use for work counts, that. It's a piece of clothing kind of?
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Friday 17 February, 2012 at 02:32
What's your favorite pair of shoes?
First hit on a GIS, clearly not just my favourite shoe.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Friday 17 February, 2012 at 02:34
It's Friendly Friday: Say something pleasant to a FS'er who you butt heads up against the most.
Dear BackBeat;
I am sorry that I blocked your cock last night. I am sure she was totally into you and Bulletproof Dick. I am sorry.
Your brother, █████
pressdotexe
responded to MaxImpact
on Friday 17 February, 2012 at 02:36
Do you have any personalized ringtones on your phone? Why? Give an example of one (or a few).
Everyone gets a personalised ringtone. How else would I know who's calling...?
This is Backbeat's. I use it because the opening few notes is very distinctive and stands out, but if I can't answer immediately it puts me in the mind of the way she thinks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgE-Oedaiyk
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Friday 17 February, 2012 at 03:20
Have you ever sent a question as an Anon? What was the purpose at the time?
No. That's a clever, manipulative thing to do and I'm not very good at those.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Friday 17 February, 2012 at 03:22
What's the second most beautiful thing you've ever seen?
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Friday 17 February, 2012 at 03:22
Close your eyes for thirty seconds then open them again. What did you see?
Everything.
The internet is amazing like that.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Friday 17 February, 2012 at 03:22
So for those of us who get bad Anons like the twit Aglow was dealing with earlier this week, what causes you to allow them to keep asking questions? It seems like we mostly let it continue when there is a choice. Maybe we like drama?
I attribute it to either incompetence with the settings or a proactive desire to regularly talk about something in her life that makes her seem persecuted. Like an awareness drive!
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 03:27
What is the last spontaneous thing you have done?
Heavily classified :<
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 03:27
Up late on emergency call. What do you do to fill in time when you might be called away at any minute?
I play video games. Usually, pokemon.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 04:34
What's something you like to eat that's normal for you, but everyone around you seems to regard as odd?
I have a lot more tolerance for treating 'snacks' as 'food' than my friends do.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 07:24
Those of you with housemates, how do you remember to avoid doing the things that annoy them?
Mostly I don't get annoyed at other people for doing things differently. And I change the mats in the bathroom if I notice they need it.
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 07:25
Mostly for the human-born, yes. Do you ever feel as if your abilities, training, or gifts/curse divorce you from being part of humanity? Or at least, feeling as if you are part? How do you compensate for it, if at all?
I don't feel different to other people. Is that weird of me?
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 04:46
Do you ever wonder if the world would be better without you in it?
███, once, but not ███ ████. The world is a big place, it won't notice if I'm not here, but I definitely would notice.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 04:50
Over a year ago, where were you? What were you doing? Today, are you still holding on to some of the things you were at that time?
A year ago today, I was on callout in Benaleis, ready to deploy out to █████. And I guess I am holding on to some of those things, but that's how work goes.
I don't know, it seems a lot like people around here don't have very satisfying workplace situations, because people ████ ██ ████ █ ██ ██ ████ ██████ ████ █████ ████ don't matter much.
pressdotexe
responded to MonkeyLass
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 04:52
What is it that makes you ask a question? What spurrs you to do that?
Curiosity, of course. Plus whenever I read the stream and it's full of superheroic people all being :< and >: and confrontational and angry and ████ at one another, I feel like I should ask questions that let people talk about things that they like and maybe improve their mood. It doesn't work well, but I keep trying!
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 06:25
Somethin nuts with Zex LOOK OUT fn speech trek anal ice
Cearmaid has an accent, and this looks like he's trying to send a message through voice-recognition software on his phone - that last bit being 'Recognise Speech' to try and turn it off.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 07:23
(Who is most UNlike their character judging by few OOC interactions?)
((Well, you, since you are perpetually AFK.))
pressdotexe
responded to innocuus
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 07:24
The world would be a better place without _______ in it.
Question inspired by @SanderWilson.
pseudorandomness, unfalsifiable claims, hatred and Mrs Chilber's cat, which is the avatar for human hate
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 10:08
How high are your walls built?
Very, very high. Some information I can't divulge because it's proprietary and even implying it is breaking the terms of my contracts. Some of it is about making sure that totally normal people have a totally normal life, and even letting them know about things like, say, ███ ███████ ███. Or, since you're dealing with an interracial situation yourself, the █████ Wizard's ███.
Even knowing these things existed or happened disquiets people. So I have to keep it to myself, and that can be a problem sometimes.
And then personally, █ ███ ██████ ███ knives. So... there's that.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 10:08
Where do you want to go?
Akihabara, with all of my friends and even people who don't know me very well so we can all become friends playing video games and eating disgustingly overdone sugary licensed food.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 10:10
Define want versus need.
I want to not have to go in to work in the morning.
I need to go in to work in the morning.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 10:10
Name a shot after one of your fellow FS'ers.
The Zex is a rusty nail in a glass of plain water.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 10:13
How do you battle addiction?
Depends on your mindset. Some people handle well viewing the world as a combative conflict, sure that they can best things, and therefore, they 'battle' addiction knowing that it's like a fight where they're pinning addiction down. The days where they go clean are like punching it in the face. Also, this mindset works well if you fail - because you can pick yourself back up and take another swing!
Some people it's more like gardening, where you've got this normal thing in your life and you're trying to give it room to grow. At first it only needs a little space and light and warmth and then you give it that. And then you give it a little more and it gets bigger and better and eventually needs more, and because it's happening like a mushroom cracking pavement, it's just so easy to do it, becaues it's been little steps one after the other.
Some people battle it by losing a lot.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 10:13
Do you think better in the quiet, or in the noise?
Depends on what I'm thinking about.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 10:14
Something on your mind?
That people who have experienced multiple personality disorder, telepathic parastisim or demonic possession were at least able to say they didn't choose it, but I did.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 18 February, 2012 at 10:14
What is your saving grace?
The carotid artery.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Sunday 19 February, 2012 at 02:21
Can you pin a song to what's on your mind right now?
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Sunday 19 February, 2012 at 05:08
A scent that haunts or comforts you?
Have you ever smelled your own blood when you've spat it out? It's very different to normal blood smells. :<
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Sunday 19 February, 2012 at 05:10
What speaks louder? What is said or what isn't?
Aren't you psychic?
Wouldn't you know better than me?
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Sunday 19 February, 2012 at 05:10
Would you ever skydive?
LEO drops are great!
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Sunday 19 February, 2012 at 05:19
I found three kittens in a box in the foyer. Does anyone want a kitten?
No kittens on the sub. :<
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Sunday 19 February, 2012 at 05:19
What do you want?
World Peace. No, don't worry, I'll get it myself, you don't have to get up. =D
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Sunday 19 February, 2012 at 05:19
If you were going to get a house built, what would it be like?
It'd have a fireman's pole, I know that much.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 02:23
You do it easily, you do it casually, you don't even notice when you do it, but it has a deeper meaning, and it's not good. What's your bad habit?
Wiki'ing everything.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 04:37
Does war have rules?
War does have rules, war should always stick to those rules. And one of the most important parts of those rules is that war should be declared. Of course
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 04:37
What's something you have more of than everyone else you know?
Video game consoles. More than anyone I know. Not just more because I have more generations, but I have more dreamcasts than anyone I know.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 04:38
I've come up with a new costume design for Impact after deciding he needed an update. Max, of course is nitpicking at it. What do you think?
I think if he's nitpicking at it, he's probably unhappy about it somehow.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 04:40
What's the sound that starts you running?
Click, click, dial click, dial, snikt.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:37
((What attributes do keep tracked, using the Combat Attributes function?))
((Depends on what the character's build for, but I'll always be tracking a form of defence (to check for debuffs and to keep on top of inspirations to use), inf, and last hit chance.))
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:38
Ryker's sister got me thinking about the big changes in our lives. Have most of yours been gradual processes, like getting older or growing bored of TV? Or were they sharp and distinct, like a sudden mutation or a bus crash?
It was a gradual process made up of a lot of trip-and-fall things off bell curves.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:38
Chell Question #2: I need to catch up on a lot of reading and one of the things I need is a book series for young adults. What would you recommend?
The Animorphs!
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:39
Chell Question #3: When do you know if you might be gay? Is it like knowing you're a mutant, you wake up one morning and can just, like, like girls?
It so doesn't work like that. Mutation I mean.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:40
Chell Question #5: What is a more reasonable responsibility, caring for a pet, or controlling my own education?
If we're assuming you are fourteen, I think the pet is more reasonable. I think you should try trusting your brother as he tries to help you get to grips with your future. :D
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:29
What was the best thing that happened to you this weekend?
███, and lots of it. Plus, there was a huge puzzle page in the Sunday paper this weekend.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:31
Musical Monday: The last song to bring you comfort?
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:31
Say hello to "Firebert" my new special little friend! Thanks to Sander Wilson for giving me the kitten and super thanks to Code Blue for letting me keep him! What was your first pet? What did you name them?
HI FIREBERT!
pressdotexe
responded to MrCrimsonAce
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:32
How did everyone get started in the biz? Do you still like it?
Extensive ██████ to ██████ ██ █████ ███████, which is really unfair when you know about how it all started. Then I started to work for ███ government's interests.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:32
Do you enjoy instrumental versions of songs you already liked?
Half of my music doesn't have non-instrumental versions.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:33
The Grim Reaper just showed up and is cashing you out. He's in a good mood and gives you enough time to do one last act. The time is variable depending on how complex your desire is. If you give up, you die. What act do you choose?
Wow maybe I'll kill death like everyone else says!
Some things you have to accept. I think I'd like the last thing I do to be wishing my friends goodbye, or possibly sailing away on a ship into the clouds.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:41
This is a little black and white I know but just for kicks... Favorite Hero? Favorite Villain? Least favorite Hero? Least Favorite Villain? Why?
Favourite hero? The prince! He's always rising to the challenge, he gets awesome speed kills ████ ████ ██, he's able to look good in a bunch of uniforms and even if he starts out a prick he's really nice underneath it, ███ I ████ ██ ██.
Favourite villain? It's so cliche to say Sephiroth and then the hipster response to that is Kefka. And both of them are kinda eh. It's a tiny bit of a stretch to say it, but YHWH in the original megaten was one of the scariest.
Least favourite hero? Cloud ████ing Strife.
Least favourite villain? Magus.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:42
Weapon of choice? Shield of choice?
Blades and fist, and not being there.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:42
Is it true you can not make your enemy able to be defeated? That you can only make yourself unable to be defeated until your enemy screws up and leaves you an opening?
You've never been stabbed in the ribs, have you?
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:43
Pretend for just a moment that you trust me. If I promised I could make you faster, better, stronger, and smarter using a method only I knew... would you go for it? Why or why not?
I'd probably go for it, if there was a blue-skinned alien princess involved, because, you know, we're making a video clip here, right?
Plus, I ███████ ████ ███ with someone I trust far less.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:43
Who on FS do you think would be a least likely candidate for you to hang out or work with? I'm thinking because of lifestyles and work ethic here so be nice to one another.
█████-██████. Ani Hess. Um. Really, all of you people. I mean, I don't do a lot of 'hanging out' and none of you really could do the work I do.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:44
What is your favorite fable or fairy tale? Does this time of your life relate to it? How?
The Fox and the Hedgehog! It's great, because it's a reminder that some people are just different, and nobody's way of being is somehow better than anyone else's!
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:44
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character... Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
Who controls their speed? We're all moving forwards a second at a time.
pressdotexe
responded to CareAndControl
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:45
Musical Monday: What's a song you sing in the shower?
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:46
What is the last book you read?
"Sull'odio di Cristo e la Neve Deserto."
Very dark stuff! Fortunately, I think it was fiction.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:47
What surprised you last?
Twenty-two questions in my inbox. I wasn't gone THAT long, was I?
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:47
Now I am curious... in the course of stopping someone collatoral damage is often sustained. Who pays for that? If the stopper was directly responsible for some of it should they be held accountable?
Metarenewal is a growth industry. It's never paid for by just one person.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:48
If violent behavior promotes other violent behavior... then how will "heroing" ever solve anything? Most of the time you have to stop the alleged criminal using force after all.
Do you try to talk them into stopping first? Is non-violence possible?
You might as well ask why we bother having wars. Maybe there's some greater reason underpinning it all that you don't want to acknowledge?
(Spoiler: We're all ███████ ███████.)
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 08:50
Can you place a quote, lyric, or excerpt that makes you think of a fellow FS'er without naming who?
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; Contrariwise, my blood runs cold When little boys go by.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 11:22
Any of you ever heard PPD mentioning your 'Godzilla Threshold?'
Not mine specifically, but I'm familiar with the term.
I know there's one Vanguard operative named R██ B█████ whose Godzilla Threshold is listed as 'Null,' which I think means that absolutely everything that can be wrecked in the area will be wrecked, guaranteed.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Tuesday 21 February, 2012 at 08:52
My schedule's pretty odd. What's yours like? When do you get up? When do you go to sleep? Do you have breakfast? Do you HAVE a schedule?
No, not really. It can vary based on time of year, location, type of mission, surveillance ahead of time, all sorts of factors. I don't have a fixed schedule.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Tuesday 21 February, 2012 at 04:44
Have you ever gone on a double date?
I've never been on a DATE!
pressdotexe
responded to WhiteShader
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 02:59
How many of you think that this place is even remotely like Facebook? What do you wish they got rid of so it doesn't seem so much like Facebook?
The software architecture's completely different. It's generally smaller and lighter than facebook, the security is only three-staged instead of four-staged, and there's no ███████ ███████ █████████ ██████ Zynga.
pressdotexe
responded to totallywitchin
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 03:00
What is your favorite fashion trend? Least favorite?
I really really wish I was cool enough to wear one of those snug, grey button-up shirts with a differently grey tie.
I'm no fan of muscle tees and tank tops. :<
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 04:04
What bothers you more; a missed opportunity or a break-up?
Break-ups suck. :< A lot. Especially when you never work out what you did wrong.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 04:06
Of the food you've been introduced to in the past month, what have you enjoyed the most, and why?
There's this type of nutty mix of pistachio nuts, figs, and honey that the locals do here and it is soooo goood. They grind up the nuts and dry the figs and then use the honey to make it set? Really tasty.
pressdotexe
responded to NemesisLives
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 04:07
I met @backalleybeats today. Has anyone else meet a fellow formspringer for the first time lately? :D
Um, I don't think so. :< I don't get to 'hang around' much.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:25
Potato chips or french fries?
I reject your false dichotomy, ███████.
pressdotexe
responded to WhiteShader
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:26
Where do you draw the line between being blunt and being a douche?
Generally, when you accuse other people of anything, you're being a bit of a douche. When you act like you're a unique entity and like that entitles you, you're being a bit of a douche.
So I guess you were both being a bit douchey! Sorry if that was blunt!
pressdotexe
responded to CareAndControl
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:27
What's a movie you already know but feel like seeing again? Now or 'always'.
The Cat Returns.
And waistcoast are ███████ cool.
pressdotexe
responded to AvengeAmethyst
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:28
How old are you? How long have you been doing the hero/villain thing? (( How old are you? How long have you been playing the game? ))
██. ██ years.
((I am turning twenty-nine in April. Lock's angst about being 'nearly thirty' is the angst that I have seen in myself and my sister ever since we both passed 27. She at least has accomplishments in her life to alleviate it. I've been playing since February I6, so, 2006, making me a six year vet, with no lapses at all - even when I played WoW for nine months there in 2010-2011.))
pressdotexe
responded to AvengeAmethyst
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:29
WYRW: Get a tax refund at tax time or have a little more in your check each payday?
Refund. The government can get interest off my money and that could make vaccines, jobs, subsidies, studies or education more easily. And if everyone gets a nice refund at the same time, it can work as a kind of economic stimulus like Thanksgiving or Halloween.
pressdotexe
responded to WhiteShader
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:30
In comparison to being here on FS and being in person, how many people do you all think are pretty much two different people? How many do you think aren't too different?
I've met nobody except Honeytrap, who is pretty much exactly what he's like in real life.
pressdotexe
responded to AvengeAmethyst
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:30
WYRW: Would you rather have a million dollars or a guarantee of great health for life? Why?
A guarantee of health would be pretty remarkable given the health risks represented by stepping in front of bullets.
pressdotexe
responded to AvengeAmethyst
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:43
((If you could have only one character to RP, who would it be and why?))
((I reject your premise!
There are too many stories to tell, too many songs to sing, too many casual little exchanges about individuals' tastes and joys, to really be happy with just one. There are too many things to reflect, too much room to create. There is so much variety that limiting myself to just one seems ridiculous.
Nonetheless, to play along a little in the name of saying some things I want to say, it'd be Ryker, @SnaredJR. He has a built-in dynamic that keeps him focused and on-task. The existence of Chell means that there is always going to be a good reason for him to stay grounded and to not give a fuck about anyone else's drama if it gets too thick.
Cearmaid's character was created to be a formspring entity; it's a platform about questions, and that meant I wanted to bring in a character who was defined by a single question that needed answering: /What do I do with this power?/ When he 'came out' and became a superhero, his story more or less concluded.
The rest of Cearmaid's story is about that steady place. He's slightly untethered, prone to overdoing it emotionally, prone to extravagence and easily thrown around. That's why it's good that he's friends with @CareAndControl - Gideon and Lock both reflect each other well, and Gideon is a noumenon, meaning that the two can keep each other steady. I can imagine a few stories about the two, I can imagine a certain sense of narrative that uses their differences well.
In general, though, Lock is now going to be a part of someone else's story. He's outrageously powerful in most common human premises. He's a weapon other people can call in, but I don't want him taking centre stage, which is why he does Portal Corps work. It's not that I'm not comfortable with the spotlight (I'm probably not, really), but I believe it's better for your actions to draw other people forwards. 'And then Lock murdered the god' is so simple a narrative ending it's rough as a way to draw someone else's story forwards. Don't get me wrong, I can imagine a few ways to do it, but it'd be for specific stories and not the kind of story I'd project on to other people (like, say, the Code Blue news story, which was 99% projected onto Blue, that some stranger likes hime enough to write about him).
But as for doing more stuff, doing new stuff, being Snared is lots of fun. He has a little sister. He has responsibilities. He has a job. He has a position that guarantees him /dis/respect. He has a history full of interesting, common, urban-level events that I find exciting. He has a power level that is both high enough to be exciting and low enough to be manageable. He's also very engaging and fun to play mechanically - I'm not comfortable showing up to an RP incarnate trial with him right now because he's only +1, but for all normal content I'm happy to turn up and rely on my familiarity with Snared, my mechanical ability at playing the guy, and my general inventiveness with temps, insps and positioning to get me by. I think Snared's died, like twice when he's teaming with anyone from FS, and it's always been due to a stupid mistake on my part.
Finally, Ryker is a character who missed his chance at development. I made him to join a friend in a SG, and my attempts to join weren't what they were looking for, so he fell through. I had levelled him very aggressively to 50, got him incarnated, then was told 'No, thank you,' and that was a real bummer. So I had him sitting on a shelf.
The dynamic of an unwilling dad-figure rearing a child who had so little in common with him was a challenge I liked, especially since it left room for him to be wrong about things in a way that showed real flaws, but flaws that were useful to promoting stories rather than just flaws like 'He's an arrogant dick,' or 'He's whiny.' It also put his mindset in a place where he automatically could avoid that superheroic angst question of 'Why am I doing this, really?'
So, Ryker. That's if I had only one, though, and I don't think I'd play the game if it ever limited me like that.))
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:44
Besides voice, what other means do you speak through? Body language? Art? Touch? Music?
TCP/IP.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:44
Are there people you feel you cannot do without in this world?
Yep! And all █ of them know it, and I ████ them all.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:44
What would you do if an animal destroyed your brother's favorite pair of shoes?
I'd hide under the bed with Logan because Backbeat's shoes need a lot of destroying. :<
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:45
To know great happiness, one must also experience great sadness. Speak of one sad thing and one happy thing that have happened to you recently.
Classified. :c
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:45
Is it really the effort that counts?
I don't know. I don't do things without putting in a lot of effort, but I don't think I get a prize for almost surviving.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:45
The bang, or the anticipation?
I think @Cearmaid already did this poem.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:45
Would you ever have children?
Noooooooo.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 at 05:46
What is your favorite dessert?
Cold cereal. >.>
pressdotexe
responded to CareAndControl
on Thursday 23 February, 2012 at 12:49
If you had a fanclub what would it or its members be called?
Chairs?
pressdotexe
responded to TheNoisebomb
on Thursday 23 February, 2012 at 01:16
:( sime1 i thpught qas my friwnd just kivked mt in the chwst, ever hav 1 of those dsys?
I can get you a voice-box recognition system so your questions will come out clearly and you don't have to talk to do it. :C
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 23 February, 2012 at 01:20
((Imagine your character is a mob in-game, whose defeat award a badge. What badge would it give those who vanquished you?))
((FROM THE TOP!
New Disaster: Wanting (Hero: Gone) Tetsu-Jin: Jester (He's a Robin analogue) Lionized: Flag Burner (Hero: Angry Eagle) Elhanan: Forgotten (Hero: Unthanked) Knuckledust: Does Not Like Guns Juusan: Unfortunate Event (Hero: Returning) Niryu: Three Sides Gallows: Hate Artist Prior: From the Street Prodigal Sun: Wasteful (Hero: Efficient) Knight Rain: Bitter Wind Raubtier: Bad Dog (Hero: Loyal Hound) Living Liberty: Fearful Man/Woman (Hero: Unbroken and Unbowed) Downplay: Underwhelmed Emblazoned: Unsinged Wayworn: Last Note (Hero: Fatal Harmonic) Rose Paladin: I can't top Fox's one. Reforged: Big Sister/Brother is Watching (Hero: Walks Again) Bec Querel: Again, I can't top Fox's one Saxon Valiant: Fox nailed this one perfectly Enraptured: Hope Broken (Hero: Hope Renewed) Recall: Lives In Fear (Hero: Forgiven) Tradewind: Godslayer (Hero: Divine Bargain) Drawforce: Overdrawn (Hero: Second Shot) Swivel: Destabilised Cearmaid: Birthright Snared: ... hissss... Mu'Rder: Mutilated (Hero: Blind To Fear) Kanpekina: Personal Project (Hero: Bear Necessities) Battlebriar: I Don't Care Rough Hex: Stubborn Cuss D-38: Moves The World.
That's just Virtue, and just those who have actual established existence.))
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 23 February, 2012 at 01:26
((Continuing the badge theme! Your character's badge is part of an accolade that requires at least three other badges! What are they, and if they don't exist, how do you get them?))
((I have too many characters to work with, but since he's the most 'villainy,' one for D-38, off the top of my head requires Moves The World, Atlas Shrugged, Leader, Egghead, and Wanted. Because D is nothing if not a pastiche of Fight Club, Atlas Shrugged, and other adolescent idiocy.))
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Thursday 23 February, 2012 at 07:43
Where is your place of serenity in the city?
Wherever I want to make it!
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Thursday 23 February, 2012 at 07:45
Any great plans for the weekend?
Black tie event!
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Thursday 23 February, 2012 at 07:49
I'm thinking of like, when I figure out this whole evil Amber thing, of hanging up my "cape" and just going back to like a "normal" life, whatever that is. Do you ever think of quitting or retiring? What keeps you going?
Don't you know?
You can never Quit The Game!
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Thursday 23 February, 2012 at 07:50
Thoughtful Thursday: A quote or motto you love by?
Live.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Thursday 23 February, 2012 at 07:52
Thoughtful Thursday?: Quote me something on how you feel about recent events in your life.
"I have just picked it [an ant] on the tip of my glove. If I put it down again and it asks another ant, "What was that?" …how would it explain? There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are vast, timeless. And if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants…and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know. We've tried. And we've learned we can either stay out from underfoot, or be stepped on."
pressdotexe
responded to shockhazard
on Thursday 23 February, 2012 at 07:52
It's "OMG so tired Thursday". When was the last time something interrupted your sleep?
Was it work or personal related?
Ever been to Belize? The ████████ █████ is really not your friend.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Thursday 23 February, 2012 at 07:53
Is there something everybody else - even non-metas - seems to be able to do, that you simply can't?
Speak to girls.
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Thursday 23 February, 2012 at 07:53
I figure most of us break stuff pretty well. Can you build stuff too? If so, what kind of stuff do you make?
I make sorting algorithms and planning heuristics for organisational networks. For fun!
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 23 February, 2012 at 07:54
Someone mentioned to me today that he used black eyeshadow with his helmet to keep light reflection off his hud down. You wear makeup? For any reason other than the usual?
No, and I think he was hitting on you.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 23 February, 2012 at 07:54
A stranger just asked me to smell her. What's the weirdest request you've had today?
████ ████.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Friday 24 February, 2012 at 12:02
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Friday 24 February, 2012 at 06:45
If you were a sin, which would you be?
Wrath.
pressdotexe
responded to MonkeyLass
on Friday 24 February, 2012 at 06:47
Do you have a big focal goal in life? What is it? And how much would you give up to achive it? Would you give up everything else you want and believe in to achive your biggest goal or fulfil your core belief perfectly?
World Peace.
You're welcome. =D
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Friday 24 February, 2012 at 06:47
If you were a virtue, which would you be?
I would have to wiki this to see, which I think defies the point.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Friday 24 February, 2012 at 06:48
Ever been reminded that other people have way, way cooler lives than you?
I'm saving the world, I live in a submarine, I get to play video games, I have the internet in my head and I ...
I just made you feel bad didn't I :c
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Friday 24 February, 2012 at 09:45
Is being a leader better than being a follower? Are you more successful if you reach a position of command, or are leader/follower roles "equal but different" in your mind?
Anyone who gets a fixed role in their head is wearing a rut in their brain.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Friday 24 February, 2012 at 09:46
She's off to school, and I wind myself down, a night's labours past. The question that nags at my mind as I slouch towards bed is this: What advice would you, as a mentor, want to offer, to extol, to the next generation who do your work?
Um, I fight wearing an entirely skin-tight leather outfit that hides my eyes and mouth and dehumanises me a little. :<
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Friday 24 February, 2012 at 08:12
How do you condole need?
Generally, I just adapt. Most of the time when a need I have is disappointed, I just go without and find it wasn't a need at all.
pressdotexe
responded to CareAndControl
on Saturday 25 February, 2012 at 06:54
Suck it up Saturday: It's not Monday but I'm posting a music Q anyway. A convoluted one at that. What's a song you'd want your (possibly idealized or even fictional) partner to post to describe your (their) relationship (to you)?
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 25 February, 2012 at 06:54
Ever eaten anything just because you're bored?
Don't eat the yellow snow =D
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 25 February, 2012 at 06:57
Tell me about your happy place?
There's Brahms there and you can't hear the █████████. And it's cool, and it's clean, and when I go there, I know everything's going to be fine.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 25 February, 2012 at 06:59
Tell me about the last path you took?
Op.Taunmon.17. I took ██ doses of ███████ with me in inhaler form for the █████████, and the ██████ in Yellow was extracted safely. It was pretty rough - I crawled on my belly!
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 25 February, 2012 at 07:00
If, for a day or a week or a month, you could pretend to be someone else without the responsibility of your powers: who would you be? What would your name be? Where would you go?
I'd go to Evo and play for real without feeling like a cheat. I'd go to the GSL and watch the match and be impressed with the skill with their hands. I'd go to a butcher's shop and watch the cutting without ████████. I'd see if I lost my stutter and I'd see if I could go on a date.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 25 February, 2012 at 07:02
What do you have to lose?
At all times █████ Swivel is a guaranteed retrieval.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 25 February, 2012 at 07:03
Do you move too fast or too slow?
Too fast, but too fast for whom?~
When I ███ you, you ███'█ ██████ █████ you fall down ████.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 25 February, 2012 at 07:03
123 questions? Now I know how you guys feel. Also, I'm fine, I'm coming home.
Wanna lift? =3
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 25 February, 2012 at 07:04
What are you thinking now?
Classified and blocked for explicit content.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 25 February, 2012 at 07:04
Anything you want to say?
Classified.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 25 February, 2012 at 07:04
Last thing you touched? Last thing you ate? Last song you sang?
Classified.
Classified.
... Classified.
I'm boring. :<
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Sunday 26 February, 2012 at 07:22
Am I basically the only person here who doesn't like spicy food?
I don't! :< It tends to be the only thing you can taste. I like creamy foods and sweet ones better.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Sunday 26 February, 2012 at 07:23
How dangerous is it really, to visit the Etoile Islands?
████. You ████ should ███████ ██ ███████ ██ ███'██ ███████ ████ ███████ ██ go.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Sunday 26 February, 2012 at 07:28
Is there truth in the saying 'hotter fires burn quicker'?
It's a very simple aphorism, but yes.
It does remind me of this though, and you're artistic, so hopefully you'll like it:
"My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light."
Only you know how hot you should burn!
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Sunday 26 February, 2012 at 07:28
Is there anything you CAN put on a sandwich, but never SHOULD?
Butter. You don't need it most of the time and it'll just make the sandwich worse for you.
But it tastes really goood :<
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Sunday 26 February, 2012 at 03:49
Do you like to get dressed up for dates?
I don't really go on dates.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Sunday 26 February, 2012 at 03:50
What gets your heart racing like no other?
A swift release from the adrenal?
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Sunday 26 February, 2012 at 06:06
What's your favorite color?
Purple! It works out okay. And it contrasts well with white and black.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Sunday 26 February, 2012 at 06:06
Makeup on guys? What do you think?
It looks pretty silly unless they already look like girls.
pressdotexe
responded to MonkeyLass
on Sunday 26 February, 2012 at 06:07
Who is your favorite mythological figure? Why?
Shamgar, the Son of Aram!
Hipster myths!
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Monday 27 February, 2012 at 03:22
Have you ever stayed awake all night?
I've stayed awake for a 45 hour period while travelling one time zone an hour. THAT was a funny day.
Did you know American Samoa decided to cancel Friday once? Just went Thursday, Saturday?
pressdotexe
responded to totallywitchin
on Monday 27 February, 2012 at 07:26
Do you consider yourself a flirt?
Oh so no. So no no no no no no no no no no. No.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 27 February, 2012 at 07:27
Really, what do you do? Break it down for the rest of us?
A lot of what I do is classified. Really classified. More classified than that.
I can outline a few things geopolitically, though.
Officially, the United States is the only superpower left. China is an economic superpower, and it has an impressive military, but let's just say there's more sound than fury there.
The rest of the world functions best, albeit slowly, when there is stability. When there is a single entity that pulls everyone forwards. Economic leashes are very effective at protecting countries. As long as trade is good between them, China and America will never declare war on one another, even if their proxies really try to.
Economics is very complicated and I don't understand it too well. But there are things yuo can do to mess it up. You can start wars with particular nations. You can engage in terrorist attacks that cripple industry. You can commit acts of genocide against your people that provoke international action. You can destroy supply lines for other, necessary things. You can damage relationships with people to whom you owe money by indulging hate crimes.
We make sure that economics doesn't get messed up.
It's very annoying that my line of work doesn't have much opportunity to deal with things like abusing housing bubbles. Still, sometimes, there is a bad guy with a big laser and a little mustache, and nobody ever finds out about him because his laser doesn't work and he falls down the stairs. So I guess I grease stairs.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 02:03
Do you find yourself lying to protect someone else very often?
███!
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 02:04
How do you show someone that you love them?
I stand in a corner and look at my shoes.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 02:05
What are you doing right now? Do you wish you were doing something else?
World Peace. And no, I don't.
(Your welcome! =D)
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 06:26
Another last-minute-monday one: Pick a song for someone where the /title/ makes you think of someone on FS - even if the song itself isn't appropriate.
I hate how he ca ndress like a middle manager and still look SO COOL. :<
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 06:32
What are your words of the moment?
I was told the callcode for my contact in this area was 'callypigian.'
That's a good word.
pressdotexe
responded to totallywitchin
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 02:04
TMI Tuesday: Being spanked or doing the spanking?
It's a ████ follow-up ██ ███ █████. If I got the █████ right.
pressdotexe
responded to WhiteShader
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 02:05
I asked this question before and I think it's worth asking again. Can you be your own savior? Why or why not?
I think you can save yourself from all sorts of things, but that's not being a savior. That's just surviving. I think savior implies a certain amount of gratitude, of respect, of thankfulness and hope. I think the word means someone you're happy exists and are happy rescued you.
pressdotexe
responded to totallywitchin
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 02:06
If you could change the tune of the ice cream truck to any song, which would you change it to and why?
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 02:06
What are you obsessing about?
The word callypigian.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 02:55
Safe, or sorry?
I operate at all times in a mission parameter that's safe.
Or people die.
pressdotexe
responded to totallywitchin
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 02:55
You want to seduce that sexy someone.... what is the sweet-nothing that you’ll whisper into their ear?
b-b-b-b-b-b i-i-i-i-i ah-ah- e-e-er-er.
I don't do that for some reason.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 06:29
Do you prefer a partner who shares your traits/interests/style, or is it "opposites attract"?
I've never met anyone who shares my traits, interests or style, and I don't exactly have a lot of history of partners, so I guess I'd have to just file this one under great existential mysteries.
pressdotexe
responded to RosieVision
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 06:30
How long did it take for you to realize it was love?
The first time Sonic Adventure loaded.
It was a terrible game, but it'll always be our game.
pressdotexe
responded to RosieVision
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 06:30
If you could experience or try anything, regardless of any limitations (e.g. physical, emotional, geographical, etc.) what would it be and why?
Is it so pathetic to say 'talk to girls like Saxon can?'
pressdotexe
responded to RosieVision
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 06:31
Are there any memories you're missing that you wish you could recall?
No. All evidence indicates that it's best nobody can remember them.
pressdotexe
responded to RosieVision
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 06:32
How did you know it /wasn't/ love? What did you do about it?
That first 'Play Your Way' ad. :| I don't care how much I like the PS2, the PS1 peed in the pool and can never un-pee in it.
pressdotexe
responded to RosieVision
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 06:34
If you could have just one selfish dream for yourself fulfilled, what would it be?
World Peace!
(Yyyyyyou're welcome! =D )
pressdotexe
responded to RosieVision
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 06:37
When was the last time you felt jealous? Why did you?
Some answers in the stream. I made this face :<
pressdotexe
responded to RosieVision
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 06:38
What limitations do you put on yourself? Why?
A number of physical and personallity limiters resulting in emotional shutdowns rather than █████████ ████████.
pressdotexe
responded to MsRepresntation
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 07:11
Is there a food that you love above all overs? A food which gives you comfort and a feeling of belonging? A food that you turn to when the world feels like it's crumbling around you but eating this dish makes you feel all that much better?
Apple crumble!
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 08:33
Monday AND Tuesday: Do you have a favourite makeout/mack-on song?
Nnnnnnnno?
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 09:41
Who has some experience with the 5th Column? What can I expect and how much help would I need? (They are part of this crazy multiple-Amber thing and may be even responsible for my being here! )
I know a guy who might be able to help you out. Should I send him a way to contact you?
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 10:20
Yes! They can send me a message here or ring me up at 401-555-AMBR
Okay. Information has been passed on. Good luck! =D
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Wednesday 29 February, 2012 at 12:44
TMI Tuesday: Flirtiest language?
Whole words.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Wednesday 29 February, 2012 at 12:44
How long were you doing your job before people started coming to you asking for advice on how to do their jobs?
Never. Not in any job I've ever had.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Wednesday 29 February, 2012 at 07:13
People have been asking odd questions lately. I will ask a normal question. If there was someone that you had to kill, how would you do it?
Insufficient parameters, request rejected.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Wednesday 29 February, 2012 at 07:14
What have you sacrificed?
Three creatures, targeting the Flame-kin zealot in my graveyard.
pressdotexe
responded to WhiteShader
on Wednesday 29 February, 2012 at 03:35
In your personal opinion, do you think it's okay to think about revenge but never actually acting upon it? Why or why not?
At a certain point, revenge cuts off avenues of retaliation and repair.
pressdotexe
responded to AvengeAmethyst
on Wednesday 29 February, 2012 at 03:37
As "heroes" we think nothing about sending people to jail when they break the law. But what about when heroes break the law and people get hurt. What will be our response? Have you read the paper today? What say you? Equal justice or not?
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Thursday 1 March, 2012 at 04:00
How would you summarize yesterday in one word?
Horses!
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Thursday 1 March, 2012 at 04:01
What are your thoughts on psychologists and/or therapists?
█████. People who ███'█ ███ things and think they can ███ them based on that.
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Thursday 1 March, 2012 at 04:41
The biggest lie you have ever told yourself.
They won't stop if I stop they won't stop if I stop they wont stopifistopifistopifistop
pressdotexe
responded to RosieVision
on Thursday 1 March, 2012 at 04:41
What brings you hope?
That everywhere I've gone, every place I've been, has artists, people who want to be happy, and people who don't want to hate things.
Most of the world's pretty nice. It's just being messed up by dickheads.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Thursday 1 March, 2012 at 04:42
Favorite or most profound quote from a movie that sticks out at you?
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die."
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Thursday 1 March, 2012 at 04:43
Think back to when you were a teenager (if you were never a teenager or you still are, just go back like ten years). What's a song you really loved back then?
I know how white I am now.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 03:20
Have you ever dealt with a villain (or an enemy, or whatever) that had a deep understanding of the legal system, and used it?
In some cases, in more than a few as a byproduct of effectively dictating the laws of their homeland.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 05:52
Imagine you were doing a parallel to your current job set in Colonial or Victorian England. Would this be awesome, and what would the penny-dreadfuls about you be called?
It
would
be
AWESOME!
CITIZEN 5, THE AUTAMATON OF THE NEW WORLD! Fear his phlebtonium fift and the flenfing knife of justice! Appearing from the cold wildf of Montblanc, he ftridef the ftreetf of parif, his eyes keen on the lookout for the most dreadfulf of enemies, af he huntf hif rival, Fpring-Heeled Jack!
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 06:49
What is your favorite sort of lingerie?
\>This question has given Asset Swivel an isolate loop. It has been answered in order to remove it from his stream without resulting in him believing he has deleted a question. Asset Swivel will be committed to loop-break in fifteen seconds.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 06:49
Red or blue?
Purple! =D
pressdotexe
responded to MouseMcCulloch
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 09:21
Its been pretty cold the last few days... what's your favorite cold weather food?
Sou█s, with ██████ and chunks of █████.
pressdotexe
responded to jillwilliamson
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 09:22
Okay, think about yourself when you were younger, maybe in your teens or earlier. If you could send that person one song from any time period that they would listen to and learn something from, what would it be?
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 09:23
Do you swear? How often and how practiced?
Almost never. It's one of ████ things that shock people when they experience me doing it.
pressdotexe
responded to russianjgrnaut
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 06:45
What sort of cellphone do you have? If you don't have one, what other form(s) of communication do you use?
I have the entirety of the internet available to me the same way tapping your foot is available to you.
It's kinda neat.
pressdotexe
responded to russianjgrnaut
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 07:01
Do you celebrate your birthday? Why, or why not?
No.
I found out I wasn't born.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 07:02
How many ordinary human beings could you take in a melee combat situation?
If ██████ takedown permitted, ███ ██ ████.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 07:02
Does your home have any sort of security system?
I live on a submarine!
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 07:02
Which Formspringers would you be a fan of even if you didn't know them personally?
I am obligated by little brother contract to say @BackAlleyBeats
pressdotexe
responded to russianjgrnaut
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 07:04
Are you concerned about American politics?
It's annoying seeing people trying to address non-problems, or who address a problem and don't realise what it means. Like that bill that was suggested that would make single parenting a sort of child abuse - because a lot of single mothers are single because they walked out on an abusive partner, and these laws imply that that's better than trying to raise them somewhere safe. :<
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 09:34
This is especially for Ryker and Gideon, but I thought I might as well throw it open to the general public too: How would the current political/economic landscape be different, if there were no such thing as supers (of any kind)?
The main thing that would change is the stabilising influence of many metahumans in international regions - such as the group of the Golden Crescent, or the People's Democratic Arm, would be gone, and you'd need a strong economic leash to make sure that all the first world powers didn't kill each other over iPads.
Chances are you'd have a war in the Middle East (because you always do), you'd invariably have multiple invasions from China, Russia, or America of Afghanistahn, and all of those would prove enormous money sinks that wreck their homelands' economies.
Some extragovernment groups would probably have fallen over, like Project Alpha, or the Canadian Government's Actuator Entity. The Dirty War in Argentina probably would never have spilled over into neighbouring countries, and the Peruvian La Muerte Rebobinada definitely wouldn't have happened, which means we'd have lost an enormous amount of progress in the field of mathematics and metaphysics.
Plus, we wouldn't have the projected solar sail designs nearly so early if Brazil hadn't had the Estabilização in 1992. Which would be really sad. :<
pressdotexe
responded to russianjgrnaut
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 10:37
Your favorite awful movie?
MD Geist!
pressdotexe
responded to russianjgrnaut
on Friday 2 March, 2012 at 10:38
Who's someone in this world that should just go away?
Peter Molyneaux. I don't want him hurt or anything just... just stop.
pressdotexe
responded to HiroAntagonist
on Saturday 3 March, 2012 at 01:10
Who here would like to go to a Browncoat Convention with me sometime? Or at least some convention where they'll be there. Any takers?
...
Are OCs allowed? >.>
pressdotexe
responded to MsRepresntation
on Saturday 3 March, 2012 at 01:22
Do you have a weakness? I don't mean, as far as superpowers go. Your personal weakness. What is the one thing that will make you drop everything and take/do/indulge in?
I have a hard time talking to girls to whom I'm attracted? But that's not really the same thing, is it.
I don't have anything I *like* that makes me just drop everything. The things I like, the things that I enjoy are things I can always set aside. It's strange. I mean, I really like them, but there's that sort of... love that everyone else can have for things. I don't have that, I'm always a little bit disconnected, I guess.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Saturday 3 March, 2012 at 04:14
Hey! I totally didn't die! Quelle surprise, I know. If you wanna know what happened I made a page in my journal public. But what should be done with Amethyst now? She hasn't actually done anything yet. But in the future, it seems she will.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Saturday 3 March, 2012 at 07:28
Please send... whatever you send. Thoughts, prayers, whatever. My parents are in the hospital.
:<
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 3 March, 2012 at 07:28
What was the last thing that blew your mind?
Nothing worksafe. >.>
pressdotexe
responded to russianjgrnaut
on Saturday 3 March, 2012 at 07:28
What's your favorite fun stereotype?
<.<
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Saturday 3 March, 2012 at 04:01
When was the last time you changed your code name and why did you change it? What might get you to change it again?
Technically, my code name is my name. My birth name was ████████, and now effectively doesn't exist. So I'm Swivel for good now.
((Meanwhile, as for other renames, almost none. I've known a few who have had renames when names became available - I know Rascai King became Rascal King, just as Biack Caiman became Black Caiman, but I don't think I've ever renamed a character because the name was unsatisfying. My renames have been the result of character revamps. ))
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Saturday 3 March, 2012 at 04:01
What is your sexual orientation?
████████?
pressdotexe
responded to HiroAntagonist
on Saturday 3 March, 2012 at 04:01
Five years ago today I asked someone a question that would change my life. I didn't realize the changes I was in for. Is there something you did in recent years that set off a chain of events you didn't expect?
I got a blood test done.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Saturday 3 March, 2012 at 04:02
((Pick some FSers and like remane them after Transformers - I totally get dibs on Bumblejumper! ))
((Well, there's Grimfox, if you're talking about players.))
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Saturday 3 March, 2012 at 09:44
They didn't make it.
:<
pressdotexe
responded to HiroAntagonist
on Sunday 4 March, 2012 at 06:47
Do you think it's possible to move on completely when a relationship ends? Does how it end matter? What if the person dies? Does it dishonor them and their memory to move on with someone else?
I don't really know, but Bertrand Russell said:
"Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain."
:<
pressdotexe
responded to HiroAntagonist
on Sunday 4 March, 2012 at 06:48
Five years ago today I lost someone that meant the world to me. What do you do to honor the memory of loved ones you've lost?
I count them. Every time. Every day. Every morning. Every night. Every one.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 03:00
When is the last time you let loose?
Darfur.
pressdotexe
responded to PlagueOfWasps
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 04:15
So, my current living choices are to stay in a crowded dorm, or live in a creepy mansion filled with demonic vampire brides. Not ideal! Any of you guys need or know someone that needs an extra roommate? I'd prefer a two-to-four person suite if possible.
I live on a sub! =D
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 04:36
Music Monday? Give me a sample of something that you listen to when it is very quiet, and no one is around. Night time, perhaps.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 04:43
What's your pylon evasion strategy?
████, ████, ████, ████, ████.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 04:43
What does the phrase 'compulsory love' make you think?
████. :<
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 03:49
Money Monday: What do you do for a living?
World Peace.
You're welcome! =D
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 03:50
Do you ever wish there was a "frown" or "thumbs down" or "dislike" option?
No. Those things put people in a mind to use them, and that mindset leads to greater increased negativity and that leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. D=
pressdotexe
responded to Demongelica
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 03:51
Has a hero of the city ever let you down?
No, they're all pretty consistant in their behaviour. Nice and predictable.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 03:51
Most of you know my situation. If you were confined for an extended period of time, what would be the FIRST thing you do when you gained freedom? Or the first few things?
Lie on the floor until the screaming stopped.
pressdotexe
responded to Hellwhip
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 03:51
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Johnny Turbo pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious. Has anyone heard anything yet?
I heard this is what you get when you try to collect several weeks' worth of free samplers all at once.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 03:52
Do you like holding hands?
Wouldn't know.
pressdotexe
responded to russianjgrnaut
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 06:05
What do you see in front of your fist?
Nothing. I don't raise my fists if I can help it.
When I do, I'm not seeing much of anything.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 06:06
If you were a Disney character (or what have you), who would be your nemesis and what villain would they play?
I don't know who my nemesis is, as a person, but I do know they would be voiced by Tony Jay. I'm the hunchback of notre dame.
pressdotexe
responded to totallywitchin
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 06:08
There's a huge disturbance in the force right now. So, what do you do when you know that the shit is about it hit the fan?
Keep breathing, keep cool, ███ every ███████ ██████ in the room. Because the only way ████ is really htiting the fan is if I don't have any friends for back-up.
pressdotexe
responded to russianjgrnaut
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 08:42
What's your favorite song from a movie soundtrack? I recently rewatched "Inglorious Basterds" and this got stuck in my head. Besides, David Bowie is not unlike a small god, I think.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 08:44
What does heaven look and feel like to you?
It's quiet. I can talk. I don't have to be afraid of myself. People know I'm sorry so I don't need to say it. Nobody can hurt anyone I care about. There may even be girls there.
I know that's not how it looks or it feels. I'm bad at exisential questions.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 08:47
I wanted to find different ways to say 'I love you', and began some reading. Did you know a synonym for love is weakness? How can that be? When we feel it, it is /strong/.
I guess it is, but you've had a lot of things go really right in your life! You're an artist and you grew up around artists. You live in a city full of people who look up to, admire, and respect you, so you can be all modest and stuff.
There are people twisted up inside who express their love by hitting, and some people who love things so much they have to break them so nobody else can take them, and some people who let their love of dead people drive them to destroying things.
Of course love feels strong to you. I mean, how often have you truly, truly felt weak? Not the weakness of an injury or an illness or a bad day, or of only saving one bus full of people and not two, but the weakness of waking up and realising that today, if he gets drunk, you're going to the emergency room again, but at least that means he won't be at home tonight with your daughter?
Love can make you weak, but some people need to be weak, from time to time. It's certainly a vulnerability.
When you're back from India, you should go to Detroit.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 08:49
It being musical monday, is there a particular song that makes you think of psychics?
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 08:53
We apply music to many moments of our life. Stringing memories with tunes. What's the song (whether heard, or mentally pinned to) for the last intimate moment you had?
pressdotexe
responded to russianjgrnaut
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 10:38
What movie quote would you probably say in your day-to-day life? Me, it's "You wanna feel how hard I can punch?", Zombieland.
There's not a movie been made that uses the kind of language I do and uses it properly.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 10:39
Do not dare to presume what things have gone right in my life.
I'm just going off what you've said in public, and how you treat other people.
I'm dreadfully sorry if you were, in fact, say, a poor battered black woman in the inner-city dumps of █████, Michigan. It was really insensitive of me to think you might not be, based on what you've told everyone.
I'm sure whatever you've gone through is totally just as bad, though! =D
pressdotexe
responded to PlagueOfWasps
on Monday 5 March, 2012 at 10:40
Ever run into a situation where "doing your best" just wasn't good enough?
Not yet, which is why I have to keep getting better.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Tuesday 6 March, 2012 at 12:48
How much faith do you have in the agencies that watch over you?
None. Faith is worthless. I know.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Tuesday 6 March, 2012 at 04:31
Time-Warp Tuesday: How long until your home country has its first metahuman leader/ruler? How will they come into power? Apologies in if you are from the Etoile and this is a very boring question.
Or from the DNRK. Some people also hold to the Lionheart projection, and that would eliminate the English, Scottish and Irish. And they also probably get Chu Chullain. And... Huh. Wow, this is an interesting topic to think about.
Here, probably never. It's going to be rich annoying white people forever, with one of those words removed from time to time.
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Tuesday 6 March, 2012 at 05:34
Musical Morbidity Monday! Late because I was asleep. Name one song you want whoever is left to play at your funeral.
pressdotexe
responded to Demongelica
on Tuesday 6 March, 2012 at 03:31
Thoughtful Tuesday: You can change one thing in your life with no negative consequences. What would it be?
Self control.
pressdotexe
responded to Hellwhip
on Tuesday 6 March, 2012 at 03:31
Tomorrow, I'm heading back to Ohio for a week to see the fam. When's the last time you went home?
They think that I'm dead.
pressdotexe
responded to MsRepresntation
on Tuesday 6 March, 2012 at 08:49
Have you ever lied to yourself? If yes, have you ever lied to yourself for so long that you've come to believe your own lies?
Yes, but it's been dreadfully easy to see it was a lie afterward. :<
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 6 March, 2012 at 08:52
How would you describe what you are feeling, right now?
With pictures, video, and words, and a countdown.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 6 March, 2012 at 08:53
What's new with you lately?
Emily Wong :<
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 06:48
Do you like the idea of romance? What about the practice? Does romance feature in your life heavily?
I do!
Never.
No.
:<
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 06:49
Do you prefer to pursue or be pursued?
This is a really uncomfortable question and it makes me worry.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 06:49
Are you monogamous? Why or why not?
No, but I'm monamarous. On a technicality.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 06:50
Words can cut worse than any sword- Any experience with that?
I've been cut with a sword.
The words only hurt you if you let them.
Swords only hurt you if you let them.
I'd say its about equal until I see someone murdered by thirteen word wounds to the chest.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 06:50
Hypothetical: You have to disappear for a bit. No phone, no internet, nothing. You come back to find your best friend has become the mouthpiece for a terrorist group.
What do you do?
Gather more information because clearly something's gone to stupid town.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 06:50
How do you kill that which can't be killed?
You know we have weapons that make things stop existing, right?
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 06:50
What is something you tend to overthink?
Everrrrrrrrrrrrything
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 03:13
What's the title to the TV show about your life?
████████.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 03:13
Have you ever had anyone question your personal life on the grounds that you're supposed to be 'better' than that?
Sort of. :< I've been told I shouldn't be single, and I should just 'get out there,' and 'people like me,' and all that.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 03:14
I don't care, he still let them turn Syndicate into a generic FPS. :<
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 03:15
It is 10:17 am. I believe that I may be drunk.
:<
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 03:15
How do you deal with an opponent that is vastly more intelligent than you are?
Billions more processes running parallel.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 03:16
Ever been in a bad situation that could have easily been avoided with a word?
"After all, you're in love with me, aren't you Swivvy darling?" "No."
Shame I couldn't spit it out.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 03:16
Ever find yourself in a bad situation because of someone else's poor decision?
ALL THE TIME.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Wednesday 7 March, 2012 at 11:07
What sounds wake you up in a morning? Church bells, clock alarms, trucks moving, trains rattling?
Boop.... booop...... booop....
or Downplay yelling.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Thursday 8 March, 2012 at 03:04
I've managed to find a quantity of processed iron, but it's mostly scraps. Could anyone point me in the direction of several hundred gallons of hydrochloric acid to cure and clean it?
I promise I'm not trying to help my retarded sister commit suicide.
If you could have it you'd know how to get it.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 8 March, 2012 at 03:47
I'm one question answered away from 500. Anyone want to ask me something special?
I don't care!
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Thursday 8 March, 2012 at 06:28
What's the worst someone's ever crossed you - that you forgave?
I'm not very good at forgiving anyone, but I also don't know anyone who's really ever crossed me. Most of my coworkers and friends are nice and anyone I meet in a professional capacity isn't making anything personal.
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Thursday 8 March, 2012 at 07:44
Brodown Thursday! Pretend you're staging a friendly competition between two FS peeps. What's the event and who competes?
@BeatMyHighScore vs @Pressdotexe, whatever game works. I would really, really want to know what that would be like.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Thursday 8 March, 2012 at 03:19
What is "saving the world" to you?
Unambitious! =D
pressdotexe
responded to GraffS
on Thursday 8 March, 2012 at 05:29
People don't fucking change. Does anyone honestly believe they do?
"If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man. Whether regret, or love, or revenge or fear - whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can. I’ve seen belief move cities, make men stave off death, and turn an evil hag's heart half-circle. This entire Fortress has been constructed from belief. Belief damned a woman, whose heart clung to the hope that another loved her when he did not. Once, it made a man seek immortality and achieve it. And it has made a posturing spirit think it is something more than a part of me."
You're really, really wrong. =D It's going to be great when you get to see an example that makes you realise that, because it's always wonderful to discover something new.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Thursday 8 March, 2012 at 06:44
If you're interested, could some of say hello to @Wingmate? He could use a few questions, but I don't think he knows how to introduce himself. Thanks folks :)
Hi @Wingmate!
pressdotexe
on Thursday 8 March, 2012 at 11:12
Who do you like better, Girls' Generation or SNSD?
They're the same group! SNSD is derived from 소시, which is in turn derived from the group's Korean name.
I could go look those up, but...
Unless this is one of those fan things where it's lightsideGG/darksideSNSD, but I don't ascribe to that theory.
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Thursday 8 March, 2012 at 11:28
When you're young, a popular question is, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Conversely, was there something you wanted to avoid growing up to be? At all costs?
Frollo.
pressdotexe
responded to MazzoGrave
on Friday 9 March, 2012 at 12:45
It's that time of the week! THROWDOWN THURSDAY!!! And instead of doing 3 this week, just 1. @laylaward vs @BackAlleyBeats
Backbeat would make this face >3> and Ms Ward would make this face -_- and then it would be over with no winner.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Friday 9 March, 2012 at 05:48
Why are so many people scientifically illiterate? How can you not know what radon is!
Well, let's see, when's the last time you heard about a guy making a million dollars straight out of high school for being really good at math or science! No no no, it's far more important that he be able to throw a ball and run very quickly! That's what girls like. And girls? Well, we all know it's far more important to chant in rhythm and be unembarassed yelling at a crowd than it is to be able to be good at math and science!
I MAY BE A BIT BITTER.
pressdotexe
responded to PlagueOfWasps
on Friday 9 March, 2012 at 05:49
So. What gets you the most anxious in your day-to-day life? This is excluding the big, apocalyptic emergencies as they happen. (Unless that IS day-to-day.)
Explaining things to someone.
pressdotexe
responded to beatmyhighscore
on Friday 9 March, 2012 at 05:10
What's a song that best expresses how you feel right now, at this very moment?
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Friday 9 March, 2012 at 05:13
Not too long ago someone asked if we believed in love at first sight. Spinning off of that, do you believe in soul mates, an equal? Two halves to complete one whole? Is this pre-determined or do we fabricate requirements for this as we go?
I think it's very likely that human beings lie to themselves about how important their desires are all the time.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Friday 9 March, 2012 at 09:29
Friends and Family Friday: Grab somebody else in your house (either resident or guest) and get them to answer the last question you answered. Or if you like, the last question you asked.
if i press these buttons and make a sentence swivel will leave me alone and whend honey get that pictre dn
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 07:14
What do you feel is your most unattractive quality? Pick only one, yes.
I don't respect people's illusions very well and say things that upset them.
The stutter and the nervousness are bad, but nobody wants to hear that their pet theory about something is just wrong, or that their belief about the world is just wrong based on facts and evidence and things we can prove. Nothing will drive a woman or a person away quite so fast as either agreeing with them on things they don't want to be true or disagreeing with them on things they very much wish to be. :<
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 07:38
I can't go out of the house without being attacked or followed. This sucks.
:<
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 07:41
What's some skill you have that you don't think anyone around you would expect or know about?
███████. :<
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 07:42
Which is the worse end, the long, slow one, or the short, sharp one?
You can make every day of a slow end a celebration and a memory. To lose things suddenly is very painful and can leave you disoriented and alone.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 07:43
When your friends go through loss, how do you help them?
I make this face :< and do what they ask me. And offer them Klonoa on the GBA.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 07:43
What's the last thing you wrote or drew for someone?
rrrrrrrepooooooorrrrts
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 06:11
Are there any pictures hanging in your room/house/etc? What are they?
There's the Wall, which has all the posters I've collected of games in the gold case. Which starts at Sonic 2 and SD3.
The most recent addition to the wall was Mirror's Edge.
>.>
pressdotexe
responded to Wingmate
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 06:13
What is your impression of Australia?
It's GREAT!
Everyone lives near the ocean. The forests are beautiful, the mountains are huge. Everything's way more spread out than it is in the US. Their poor communities are still pretty alright, you don't get much in the way of homeless and helpless. Stray animals are rare because the government pays a tiny amount of the total budget to make sure that people don't get unwanted pets. They have health care, and they have safety laws that are generally quite nice and they have lots of public libraries. They give the internet away and all the animals are trying to kill you! And their prehistoric stuff is even cooler! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmRexWQhs3M
pressdotexe
responded to Wingmate
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 06:13
What do you imagine when you picture a man named William?
████. :<
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 06:14
I have a date tonight. I do not know how to dress for a date. Suggestions would be welcome.
I'd probably dress the way I always dress, or like Klavier Gavin. And neither would work, so don't do that.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 06:14
Here's a challenge: send a personalized question to 20 of your followers. This doesn't happen enough.
Aren't challenges meant to be hard?
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 06:34
What is your obsession with Detroit, Michigan in all honest curiosity?
It's a third-world city in a first-world country.
It's poor, it's broken, it's breaking, and there are metahuman gangs opposing three major police factions.
I grew up nearby - in a poorer area, but I've mentioned that a lot - and going to detroit was dangerous. Really, really dangerous. There are drug dealers employing telepaths. There are corrupt cops employing self-replicators to work as suicide bombers. The governor passed a law that says that your entire town's democracy can be suspended and all running of the town will pass through one person, with no oversight and no control. There are companies buying towns to experiment on.
Detroit was the engine that drove America's economic greatness and now it's a cancer that nobody wants to talk about.
And it's where a screwed up ███████ can come from and I'm not the worst.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 06:35
Rosie and I are taking suggestions for an upcoming slumber party. What should we do?
\>escape loop initiated
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 06:36
Since I'm stuck at home I'm working on my new magical girl persona. When I get out I'm gonna totally get the gear for it. What should I call myself?
You should be the Pretty Love Pacific, Uniting Force of Japan and America!
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 06:47
Friendly Friday: Without naming who, and in positive detail, who here turned out to be nothing as they appear?
He's a big arrogant sonofabitch but it never seems a bad thing.
pressdotexe
responded to AvengeAmethyst
on Saturday 10 March, 2012 at 10:53
What makes you tick?
Tocks.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Sunday 11 March, 2012 at 04:26
Can you pick a motivational song for someone on your FS list? No need to point out who for.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Sunday 11 March, 2012 at 04:18
Do corsets look good on women?
Some women, and some men. It's mostly about what complements and flatters the figure you have. Generally, they make the chest more prominent.
pressdotexe
responded to lumi11
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 12:41
Would you be willing to fight a member of your own family if they chose to support a cause that opposes you?
I do this every time it's steak night.
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 05:23
For all of you who have full hero personas, do you ever feel like you've lost who you are in that persona?
I have pretty much the exact opposite. I don't think anyone who meets me in public ever imagines the work I do. Most people who meet me online think I'm a bit of code. Even moreso, the people who meet me in the field don't think I'm a person.
I guess the thing is, I can't lose myself. I'm me, I'm here, and that's that. The only way I could lose who I am is if I stopped lookinga t it. So I'd say... examine yourself, and that way you'll never have to worry about losing who you are.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 07:23
It's always time to __________ ?
Bruteforce code sequences against neural network passageway behaviours obtained from an MRI.
Which broke.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 07:25
How are you feeling?
Like I just heard hoofbeats and turned to look for the unicorn.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 07:26
Do you sleep better alone or with a partner?
It's really pathetic, but I need someone next to me or I freak out.
Yeah, I have one of those pillows.
I'm that guy. :<
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 07:27
Where is the last place you visited? Respond with a .gif.
It's a .jpg.
Sorry! D=
pressdotexe
responded to Wingmate
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 07:29
\>bruteforce.rnt \>diagnostics processing... please be patient \>p.recog dump.000 -c █████████.mri.█████
pressdotexe
responded to Wingmate
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 07:30
What is the earliest memory you can recall?
A building across the road from my house fell over and I was sitting on the lawn watching it. When it fell I could see the highway sign behind it saying 'Welcome to █████.'
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 06:36
Tell me how you express your anger.
I stand in a corner, look at me shoes and say nothing, or ████.
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 06:36
Tell me how you express your love. Or fondness, if you prefer.
I stand in a corner, look at me shoes and say nothing.
pressdotexe
responded to PlagueOfWasps
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 06:37
Outside of work clothes (you know what I mean) how much thought do you put into what you wear? Do you decide what to wear on what looks good, what feels good, or what gets you the most (or the least) attention?
What feels good. I need a good range of movement, I need places to store things, I need to not stand out that much.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 07:39
Do you have a favorite Pokemon?
Pidgeot.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 07:39
Tell me about something new you've done recently?
Nothing, really. It's all been very humdrum lately.
pressdotexe
responded to ceruleanvenus
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 08:48
Music Monday: Share a song with me that's not in English. Preferably one that you like. (Brownie points to anyone who picks a song in Greek.)
pressdotexe
responded to CareAndControl
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 08:51
Musical Monday: Post a song that describes how you relate to another Formspringer without naming them. Bonus points if you can do more than one person.
tism - intermission.mp3
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 12 March, 2012 at 10:02
(My poor baby was bitten by a poisonous snake. This is after myself and my vet squeezed out the venom and blood clot. :()
((I'm glad you got to a vet, glad you responded well.
Also? Good name.))
pressdotexe
responded to laylaward
on Tuesday 13 March, 2012 at 01:45
Do you have any tattoos or piercings? What/where are they? Do they have meaning?
I have all the tattoos I got in prison. Shoulders, neck, chest, upper arms. No real meaning beyond 'I'm bored.'
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 13 March, 2012 at 05:10
Metaphorically, what are you made of?
I'm not very good at metaphor so I'll see what I can do
I'm made up of tiny trembling packets of energy which are all waiting for the provocation required to break the rules that hold them together and leave behind incalculable devastation but are able to keep going together because they constantly bump into one another and are reminded of their commonality.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Tuesday 13 March, 2012 at 08:39
I just wanted to say thanks, everybody.
=D
pressdotexe
responded to MsRepresntation
on Tuesday 13 March, 2012 at 04:37
TMI Tuesday: Ever had an injury or growth in a super embarrassing place? What was it?
When I was twelve I got into a fight that led to some ██████████ torsion. The nurse who investigated at school was the mother of a girl I had a crush on.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 13 March, 2012 at 04:38
(This may totes be unnecessary but I wanted to pass along a message of gratitude. Thank you for enriching my RP and allowing me to get to know your characters, and to get involved. More importantly, thank you for remembering that IC is just that, IC.)
((You're sooo vaaaain, I betchu think this Q is abouuut youuu.))
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Tuesday 13 March, 2012 at 04:38
TMI Tuesday: Have you ever unintentionally ended up naked or partially naked in front of someone that you would rather not see you in such a manner?
:< Yeah. Sometimes in really bad areas. I don't tend to notice it. Once on assignment in █████ I'd lost everything in stages and was leaping through windows naked, covered in █████. I don't imagine that was nice to see.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Tuesday 13 March, 2012 at 04:39
TMI Tuesday!: Have you ever had a sex-dream about a fellow formspringer?
:< Yes.
pressdotexe
responded to Hellwhip
on Tuesday 13 March, 2012 at 04:40
Bath or shower?
I live on a submarine with communal showers along with at least four other men, one of whom is Saxon. I shower and very quickly.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Tuesday 13 March, 2012 at 05:28
ALL IN AREA: Tall, stone-covered grey man, seven foot or more four hundred pounds or more suffering from the visible signs of a large dose of rad pois.. Responsible for an atk against @FaigeHarrison. Atlas or surrounds. ENGAGE WITH CAUTION.
I'm in Ibiza. :< Hope it works out.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Tuesday 13 March, 2012 at 06:14
((EVERYONE ELSE WAS DOING IT
http://tinyurl.com/873l7jh ))
((Just a heads up, if someone's been banned from the Cips forums, they can't read that.))
pressdotexe
responded to Hellwhip
on Tuesday 13 March, 2012 at 10:30
TMI Tuesday: When you're in a relationship, how bad is your PDA?
/na
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Wednesday 14 March, 2012 at 04:47
I've figured out how to get comped almost anything, thanks to all the hotel-hopping I do for work. What's one skill you never thought your job would teach you?
Resonance ip-stack duping.
pressdotexe
responded to Demongelica
on Wednesday 14 March, 2012 at 04:47
How do you tell someone you don't want to have anything to do with them?
I stand in the corner, look at my shoes and say nothing.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 14 March, 2012 at 04:48
What methods do you best learn from? What are you in the process of learning now?
I do some research on the internet, then I try and see what I've learned and how it's different. And that's when I get to know. Not doing anything right now though.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Wednesday 14 March, 2012 at 10:29
With all this talk of Steak n' BJ Day then Pi Day, what did you end up having?
I stood in a corner, looked at my feet and got everyone world peace.
You're welcome! =D
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Wednesday 14 March, 2012 at 10:31
Tell me a completely random fact about you.
when I was in prison I was ██████'█ bitch
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Wednesday 14 March, 2012 at 10:33
Wishful Wednesday: If you could make a wish for one of your friends, what would the wish be? You need not name the friend.
I wish that they all were my friends and not just people I talk to on the internet.
pressdotexe
responded to Ultimogirl
on Thursday 15 March, 2012 at 05:46
You get a chance to start over from scratch. You're stranger to the area, no friends or local contacts, no roof over your head, no cash or credit to your name. What's your plan to get yourself on setup and on your feet?
I find someone who isn't covered in blood and ask him what I can do.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Thursday 15 March, 2012 at 07:14
Throwdown Thursday: Cake or pie?!
This close to pi day that borders on blasphemy
pressdotexe
responded to ColdReading
on Thursday 15 March, 2012 at 08:20
When's the last time you went out drinking with a friend?
You don't go out drinking with Saxon and Backbeat, you just wander through the fumes.
pressdotexe
responded to ColdReading
on Thursday 15 March, 2012 at 08:21
Is there a single song that's followed you throughout your life?
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Thursday 15 March, 2012 at 04:30
Share a beautiful picture with me. I'll do the same.
Every single one of the dots of light in this picture is not a star, but a galaxy. Every galaxy is made up of hundreds of milions of stars. Each of those stars is as big as our sun, or much, much, bigger.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Thursday 15 March, 2012 at 04:32
Thank you to The Noisebomb for the best present ever!
No?
pressdotexe
responded to ColdReading
on Thursday 15 March, 2012 at 04:33
For those who can see, close your eyes and name items in your room, then open them again and see how many are really there. How many items did you get right?
I can't play this game fairly.
pressdotexe
responded to ColdReading
on Thursday 15 March, 2012 at 04:33
Which are you; the moth, or the butterfly?
Moth.
pressdotexe
responded to innocuus
on Thursday 15 March, 2012 at 08:49
I have heard the phrase "Everyone has a price" a few times in a few different contexts. Is this true? What is your price?
My price was freedom
pressdotexe
responded to innocuus
on Thursday 15 March, 2012 at 08:49
Seeing red, Is this literal or figurative? Has it ever happened to you? What caused it?
:<
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Thursday 15 March, 2012 at 11:45
So it's possible my dad actually gave me a name, and I can probably ask him what it is. Ever have the opportunity to find something out, then not be sure if you wanted to know?
I did. I found out who my mother was.
pressdotexe
responded to TheNoisebomb
on Friday 16 March, 2012 at 10:22
Thank you.
You're welcome! =D
pressdotexe
responded to beatmyhighscore
on Friday 16 March, 2012 at 11:00
Being selfish, is it really that bad?
Yeah, it can be really bad. I know sometimes you need to be selfish, to make sure that you don't get hurt, but you know there are so many people around you who are more in need than you are.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Saturday 17 March, 2012 at 02:27
How long, or how easily can you sit still?
\>n/a
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Saturday 17 March, 2012 at 06:23
Birthday present to myself! Check it out!
You know what's amazing?
When I point out that someone is wrong about something, or hypocritical, or inconsistant, or made a mistake, all I get is 'Don't be that guy.'
It looks like everyone's That Guy.
If you'd gotten a tattoo of a 'Dangerous Curves' sign I wouldn't think you were a ██████ road.
███. I have a bunch of tatttoos that have mistakes on them and I keep them. A misprinted stamp is more valuable than a properly created one, and anyone who's that close to that to find it a turnoff is probably an idiot considering the canvas at work.
Pack of That Guys.
pressdotexe
responded to teacuppartisan
on Saturday 17 March, 2012 at 06:25
Ever worked so much that you forgot about something important? Anything from grocery lists to meeting someone somewhere? I realise I completely forgot about my birthday over a month ago. I think it's too late for me to celebrate.
It's still your birthday on Venus. Celebrate by finding someone with blue skin and dancing with them.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Saturday 17 March, 2012 at 06:27
What do you look for in a potential boyfriend / girlfriend? Do you have any huge turnoffs?
I look for patience. Lots and lots and lots and lots of patience.
I also find pretension really unpleasant, and lots of women say things that make me feel guilty, which always makes me stop imagining them romantically.
This is all purely academic, though.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Saturday 17 March, 2012 at 06:29
How much of an age gap is too much between people that are dating?
I had a fifty-two year old woman interested in me when I was 2█. So just under double my age. I didn't mind. She eventually fell for Saxon though. And then got mad when he wouldn't commit. And then vanished forever to plan to kill Recluse.
But she was very nice. :<
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Saturday 17 March, 2012 at 06:30
Do you hate a certain fashion trend but wear it anyway to be cool?
No.
I hate the way certain fashion trends make women feel about themselves. :< I wish people could look good and be happy at the same time.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Saturday 17 March, 2012 at 06:30
What's your favorite pair of shoes like?
██████████.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Saturday 17 March, 2012 at 06:31
Do you remember your first kiss? What was it like?
No. :<
Almost certainly very very bad
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Saturday 17 March, 2012 at 06:33
Have you ever had a crush on someone that you know it's just effing weird for you to have a crush on? Did you tell them?
I have lots of crushes because they're as far as I can get.
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Sunday 18 March, 2012 at 08:30
OKAY I'M GONNA DO IT. Imma find out what my dad named me. Anybody wanna bet on what it is? The I can pick one of yours if his is totally la - I mean ALL IN GOOD FUN. Yeah...
████████.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 18 March, 2012 at 07:44
THIS IS TOO HARD
:o
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 18 March, 2012 at 07:45
O_O ... =|
:S
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 18 March, 2012 at 09:30
You ask very good questions.
Thank you. C:
I hope it makes up for sometimes being That Guy.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Sunday 18 March, 2012 at 09:31
So like, I'm minding my own business waiting to watch a movie and all and like this commercial comes on and got me curious. Would YOU drive yourself and your friends 965 to get some tacos? Ever take a road trip otherwise?
I have taken some trips on some roads and not-really-roads with my friends, yes.
pressdotexe
responded to Hellwhip
on Sunday 18 March, 2012 at 11:55
Ran into an acquaintance of my former keeper today. Talk about AWKWARD! What's the most awkward thing you've experienced this week?
Keeper, your dungeon is on an incline. Angry imps can't play marbles.
Keeper, your dungeon is full of yoghurt.
Keeper, it's time for you to go to sleep.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 19 March, 2012 at 05:06
When do tattoos and piercings become too much? When are they just right?
They're too much when you start getting pretentious about them, and pretentious about other people's
They're a form of individual expression. Even the ones with spelling errors and misplaced kanji and bad artwork, they're all trying to do something, there's are underneath them and art inside them even if the form of them is flawed.
Instead they become yet another way in which privileged people can look down on other people for doing things differently.
pressdotexe
responded to beatmyhighscore
on Monday 19 March, 2012 at 05:07
This is something that has always made me curious. Why such a strong desire to be loved? In the romantic sense, of course. Why do we have that need to wake up next to someone, or the desire to spend one's life with another? Is there even an answer?
I know there are some people who don't really feel it, and they're okay.
Maybe it's because we grow up surrounded by it and we learn to like it?
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 19 March, 2012 at 05:08
What is something that your current SO or partner does that gives you goosebumps? That makes your toes curl? That comforts you? That pleases you?
\>n/a
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 19 March, 2012 at 05:08
What does it mean to be human?
1.37 cents of raw materials adjusted for inflation and arranged in a way that can play video games.
pressdotexe
responded to Hellwhip
on Monday 19 March, 2012 at 05:08
How do you get people to stop seeing you as "the kid" of your group?
When Downplay joined, because he's so tiny.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 20 March, 2012 at 05:27
If finding yourself indebted to someone, how do you go about repaying the favor?
Wwwwww...
... Never mind.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Wednesday 21 March, 2012 at 03:30
I may have in a fit of pique purchased all of National Geographic's DVDs. Several Times, accidentally. Does anyone want a set?
Ooo! I'd really like that, if possible. Um. Assuming you're not planning on sending them to people, and people can just come go pick them up.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Wednesday 21 March, 2012 at 07:19
Share with me an anecdote from your life of the first time you really realised that you were different from the people around you. Even if you're a white blonde girl from Kansas realising that there are, in fact, non-white people in the world.
\>classified
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Wednesday 21 March, 2012 at 07:19
A lot of Tesla's work is sound. Sound as in "True." The earthquake machine was reported to have been a failure just to prevent terrible things from happening.
There's a comment feature you can use now.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Wednesday 21 March, 2012 at 07:20
Last one for today.
Did you know that with the right applications of sound in the right frequencies, the human brain can be forced into feeling several emotions? Especially anger, fear, and paranoia. Sound can also very accurately simulate hauntings!
Things like the disruption of cecads can also cause a blurriness of vision, without being audible sound.
Mostly soundwaves can just cause sleepiness, disorientation and anxiety.
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Thursday 22 March, 2012 at 02:29
Fight or Flight? Why?
████ ████ ████ ████
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 22 March, 2012 at 08:13
Your censored information is often decipherable. You're from Flint, Michigan, right?
███! Thank god.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 22 March, 2012 at 08:14
What will redeem humanity?
Quoting Bertrand Russell co-writing with Albert Einstein.
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Thursday 22 March, 2012 at 08:14
Okay so... I did it. The name my dad gave me is Aubrey. But it's the male version cus he DID think I was a boy, so technically Alberic. I am supposed to use this space for a question so here it is: WILL YOU ALL TOTALLY CALL ME BRICK FROM NOW ON? :D
The noogie contract remains. I don't get an option on this one, Brick.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Thursday 22 March, 2012 at 04:39
Do you ever feel awkward?
YES
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Thursday 22 March, 2012 at 04:39
What are your top three priorities?
World Peace.
I'll work out the others later.
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Thursday 22 March, 2012 at 06:43
Why did you join Formspring?
Honeytrap.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Friday 23 March, 2012 at 01:29
ChristianMingle.com is advertising on my FS as I type. "Cristian & Single? Ready for Love?" Tell me. How important is Religion when seeking a life partner?
How about we start with the ability to finish a sentence and then I'll decide how picky I can get.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Friday 23 March, 2012 at 01:30
Does it make sense for people to hide an object that everyone already knows they possess? For the spirit of this question lets assume the object hidden can't be stolen.
Hahahahahahahah, ███-████ is pretty much █████ entirely on this. Just because they ████ ███ ███ ██, doesn't mean they ████ █████ ██ ██.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Friday 23 March, 2012 at 01:30
Do you feel like it's wrong for you to show any emotional vulnerability?
Let's ask the prison-inked boy who can't finish a sentence when there's cleavage on display!
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Friday 23 March, 2012 at 04:12
As a counter point (not literally I know) to the FS question of the day. When do you feel the least awkward?
Online, after having done something impressive other people can see as legitimate, respect it AS legitimate, and offer me that respect without trying to diminish my achievement.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Friday 23 March, 2012 at 04:13
Usually my family gatherings are like watching a bunch of retarded jackals. Not everyone has this problem. Tell me something about your family that you think about when you have a moment to ponder them.
My dad spends all his time swanning around saving the world with a cat-suited sexbomb that I had a crush on, my older sister has kissed more girls than I have, and my mother spends her time with my dad, wearing a cat-suit. :<
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Friday 23 March, 2012 at 06:28
Are you any good at air hockey?
Yes. Not fairly though.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Friday 23 March, 2012 at 06:29
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Friday 23 March, 2012 at 06:30
Take a look at this picture, paying attention to the expression, general appearance, and attitude of each of these girls playing a Disney Princess. Pick someone from your Formspring 'friends' or followers or what have you for each girl. Enjoy!
They're all honeytrap because he can do that, and I don't have any other friends.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Friday 23 March, 2012 at 07:03
And now, today's extended session:
Did you know that you can't kill an elemental? Especially not with narwhal hugs and puppydog farts. You can really get on their nerves though!
IMMORTALITY IS ONLY A WORD. ALL THAT EXISTS CAN DIE. EVERY LIVING THING HAS A WEAPON AGAINST WHICH IT HAS NO DEFENSE. TIME. DISEASE. IRON. GUILT.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Friday 23 March, 2012 at 09:23
Any relatives?
Yeah, and they're all way cooler than me.
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Friday 23 March, 2012 at 09:25
If you were to change your name, what name would you choose?
█████ ████████.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Saturday 24 March, 2012 at 05:40
For today's session of Did You Know- Robots!
Robots are heartless, soulless impostors who don't believe in love, happiness, or even god, and they should be destroyed on sight!
pressdotexe
responded to pressdotexe
on Sunday 25 March, 2012 at 05:42
Someone referred to 'indulging' art today. What does this mean to you? And do you indulge it? When did you last indulge it, and how?
I indulged it by getting Persona 3 to work again! Yay!
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Sunday 25 March, 2012 at 05:55
Go to your profile and use the profile shuffle button. Pick a song for the person who asked the question you landed on. Even if you don't know them that well, go by whatever impression you have so far.
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Monday 26 March, 2012 at 12:37
What's something you do without even thinking about it? Not breathing or whatever, but something special to you?
Looking things up.
pressdotexe
responded to GorillaGreed
on Monday 26 March, 2012 at 07:01
I've recently trademarked some intellectual property of mine. What have you made recently?
Wow, you're just, like, the worst character ever. Just a flat-out ripoff of KattyKlepto, way less endearing, clearly with a villainous bent, and you decide to open by sending unsolicited 'questions' to people who haven't followed you.
OH WAIT IT INVOLVES EDITING A PICTURE OF A CAT HAHAHAHAH.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Tuesday 27 March, 2012 at 07:48
I'm a natural blonde, should I let it grow out?
Who gets to say how you look, you, or your DNA?
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Tuesday 27 March, 2012 at 07:48
Runaway gave me a cool idea! Post an awesome alternative profile picture for somebody you follow :D
This is obscure.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Tuesday 27 March, 2012 at 04:08
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Wednesday 28 March, 2012 at 07:36
If you could pick anyone, living or dead to screw with no consequences who would it be? Also if it's a dead person it wouldn't be a corpse or a zombie or anything it would be the person as he or she was in his or her prime.
\>escape loop termination
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Wednesday 28 March, 2012 at 04:40
I think I need a real formspring handle instead of my real name. Any suggestions?
CopperTellurium
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Wednesday 28 March, 2012 at 04:40
Where are you from?
█████, Michigan.
pressdotexe
responded to earthborn
on Wednesday 28 March, 2012 at 04:42
When you're 'new', usually the first step is to introduce yourself. So hi, I'm Charlie. Who are you?
pressdotexe
responded to SovereignFist
on Wednesday 28 March, 2012 at 04:42
Can you judge a person by the company they keep?
I hope so, I hang around great people.
pressdotexe
responded to TSyiel
on Wednesday 28 March, 2012 at 04:42
OH MY GOD THE INTERNET IS SO COOL.
=D
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Thursday 29 March, 2012 at 02:51
Random question. If you could give me a name that wasn't Run, what would you call me and why? I'm just curious.
Faris.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Thursday 29 March, 2012 at 02:52
What was your last relationship like?
\> n/a
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Thursday 29 March, 2012 at 02:53
Is there any question that you are allowed to answer openly without any interference? Do you wish people would ask it, and if so, would you give us a hint?
You know, I don't know. I don't even see the interference. And it doesn't seem to be consistant, either, because if it was going to be properly redacted or censored, the information would be given a scrambled length or blit characters so nobody has a pattern to work with.
I think I can answer a lot of questions openly - I don't know how I come across when it's censored, or if particular people get more censored comments, or, anything, really.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Friday 30 March, 2012 at 03:16
What was your last breakup like?
\> n/a
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Friday 30 March, 2012 at 03:17
Twilight or The Hunger Games?
Neither are very good, but unless Hunger Games includes a chapter giving precise details on how best to be a battered spouse under the thumb of a religious regime, I would have to imagine it has to be better than Twilight.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Friday 30 March, 2012 at 03:46
FML Friday: Admit something you dislike or detest about yourself. Is it something you're working on, or have you accepted it?
Well, there's the 'pathetic' thing.
I don't know. I kinda am afraid of who I'd be if I stopped being this shy, geeky nerd who can't talk to women.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Friday 30 March, 2012 at 07:37
If you could trade powers and/or skillsets with anyone else on Formspring, who would it be, and why?
I think the most interesting powers to experience would be Honeytrap's. I get a little idea of what it's like if I create identities for online interaction, of course, which I think at times is what makes this whole thing interesting; because we have to look at other people's powers and the ones that we can compare to our own positive experiences are the ones that we can imagine enjoying.
pressdotexe
responded to AGreenDragon
on Friday 30 March, 2012 at 06:32
What drives you to help people?
Repaying the debt I owe society.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Friday 30 March, 2012 at 06:33
Question 250, FYI, and I have response 1337, which I think is very Zexian. And so: Do you find a loss of control in your travel comforting, or disorienting?
Submarines and trains are relaxing, and other people driving me around is fine. I actually can't drive in some countries because of my glasses and things like dust storms and whatnot so I have to be okay with people driving me.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Friday 30 March, 2012 at 06:33
What do you like better from those you love; something you've always wanted, or something you never realised you could appreciate?
The latter. I can save up and get myself the former.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Friday 30 March, 2012 at 06:33
From Chell: "The lighthouse, the houseboat, the palace, the forge, the den of thieves, the temple; in which do you live, and why do you say it so?"
The den of thieves, because secret crimes need secret policemen.
pressdotexe
responded to beatmyhighscore
on Saturday 31 March, 2012 at 02:51
An act of betrayal, large or small, is still just that. What are your thoughts on the subject?
Well, if we assume that what you're saying is that, I guess what I'd say is you're inclined towards high-minded rhetoric to justify your intuitive, emotional reactions.
pressdotexe
responded to beatmyhighscore
on Saturday 31 March, 2012 at 02:52
If you could live anothers life for any reason, which you can keep to yourself or not, whose life would you live?
Saxon's. He's so different to me. He's big, he's confident, he's strong, he has this important lineage, he can have sex whenever he wants, he's always in the middle of a mess, and he's always in the opposite position to me, saving everyone.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 1 April, 2012 at 12:16
What's the monument to you?
You're welcome! =D
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Sunday 1 April, 2012 at 12:17
Songs are all well and good, but finding the part of one that fits perfectly is harder! Pick a lyric and apply it to someone on your connections, but do try to be somewhat polite!
See the figure on the shoreline Speaks his words as plain men sing.
You.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 1 April, 2012 at 01:56
Who's a family member you're really dreading having come back into your life?
Whenever dad visits, he brings mom and that is alway super duper awkward especially if there's a girl I'm interested in, because she'll do little things like BUG HER HOUSE to see if she's 'good enough' or not.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Sunday 1 April, 2012 at 07:55
Post an image that shows your /first impression/ of one of your Formspring friends.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Sunday 1 April, 2012 at 07:55
I'm going to bed, but I wanted to say before I do that you are all wonderful individuals and I'm enriched for knowing and being able to talk to every one of you, even if you don't always get along with each other.
Except Solypsos. No offense.
c:
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Sunday 1 April, 2012 at 07:56
If you were a pirate, what would people call you?
The kind who gets stranded at C+
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Sunday 1 April, 2012 at 07:56
Ever made a pretty good pun that got ruined by your/your audience's accent?
THIS MAY HAVE HAPPENED TO ME A FEW TIMES IN MY LIFE
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Sunday 1 April, 2012 at 07:59
If you were a ninja, what would people call you?
Swivel.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Sunday 1 April, 2012 at 11:25
Post an image that shows how you see yourself.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 2 April, 2012 at 02:46
Against all conceivable logic, I have obtained 200 followers. Why are you following me?
You still haven't answered one of my questions, at the very least.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Monday 2 April, 2012 at 02:46
Just so that it's clear, I didn't notice the date yesterday. I'll say again that my life is enriched by having each and every one of you in it, whether we talk on a regular basis or not. You're all beautiful people whether or not you want to admit it.
Okay!
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 2 April, 2012 at 06:42
What is your favorite style of mecha? Pick a few if you can't narrow it down.
Am I going to be weird if I say I don't really have that much love for mecha? I really enjoyed Full Metal Panic, and it had some pretty interesting Wanzers and the Arbalest was neat, but I always look at 'mecha' and start thinking about how they'd fall over. They're proxies for classic duelist style, no?
pressdotexe
responded to aquariusacqn
on Monday 2 April, 2012 at 10:31
Tell me how to get money and not have to shoot somebody!
pressdotexe
responded to EikoMagami
on Tuesday 3 April, 2012 at 04:11
How do you introduce yourself to new people? Do you have some kind of interesting story you always use or what?
I stand in a corner and look at my feet.
pressdotexe
responded to WhatAccent
on Tuesday 3 April, 2012 at 04:12
Concerning the Dischord situation, I've posted a video on Youtube...I guess just summing up my thoughts and giving out some apologies on the whole subject.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Tuesday 3 April, 2012 at 06:52
Please follow me :(
I... I thought I was!
pressdotexe
responded to Hellwhip
on Tuesday 3 April, 2012 at 05:27
((Only been on Formspring about a month, but what's with all the people leaving? is this normal for FS or did I miss a memo?))
((There was drama that led to some shutdowns, but in Ako/Eiko/Amber's case, it could be something as simple as 'I am spending too much time here, I need to focus on my schoolwork,' or 'my parents are mad at me for hijacking the ride-on mower.'))
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Tuesday 3 April, 2012 at 05:28
(( I'll miss you guys! Take care. ))
((Hope you still see this.
I hope you do well at whatever it is you turn your hand to. You've clearly got creative energy, and I hope you take that drive seriously. When you finish school, seriously consider doing writing courses, or writing short stories for publication.))
pressdotexe
responded to Hellwhip
on Tuesday 3 April, 2012 at 05:28
Starting to think it's time for a costume when I go on patrol. Namely, something more fireproof and something I can fly in without having to worry about people looking upward. Do you all wear costumes? Yes, no?
Normal people don't look up.
But I do wear a costume.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Tuesday 3 April, 2012 at 05:30
TMI Tuesday: Have you ever experimented? It's a TMI question. You know what I mean.
Does @ISpyThighHighs count?
pressdotexe
responded to Hellwhip
on Tuesday 3 April, 2012 at 05:30
((Last Hellwhip commission for a while, I promise!))
((Oh no, we might get sent nice artwork of an attractive woman. How dare you. How dare you.))
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Tuesday 3 April, 2012 at 05:32
Which are scarier: bats or rats?
Depends on where you are. In Papua New Guinea, the rats actually aren't even a little intimidated by humans, because they're used to being basically the biggest things on the island, but they also lack a lot of the diseases and aggression that humans often associate with them.
ON the other hand, in the US, the bats can carry rabies, which is really :< for the poor bats, but it also means you should be careful interacting with them because a bite could lead to a lot of painful shots. In the butt.
pressdotexe
responded to tarawc
on Tuesday 3 April, 2012 at 05:32
Any thoughts on what to get a one year old for her birthday, without going overboard because you know she probably won't remember it anyway?
I think that's the only birthday it's acceptable to get clothes.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Tuesday 3 April, 2012 at 07:01
TMI Tuesday: What was the last thought or deed that made you feel like a pervert? Is it a shameful or delightful feeling for you when it occurs?
████ █ ███ ████ █████ ██- this is all being censored isn't it
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Wednesday 4 April, 2012 at 05:20
Some people ask lots of questions, both public and individual, and some people ask almost none. Which are you? Do you have an opinion on such things?
Statistically I'm at around a 16:1 ratio for answers/public questions, but I've also asked 21 individual questions in the past 3 weeks, suggesting a rate of about 7/week. With that in mind, it comes down to how you see things.
If you see questions as the engine that drives the convesation and answers as individual expression than the question answerers are all like Atlas, holding up the world of formspring on their shoulders.
But that's really stupid because without people to answer their questions there wouldn't be any reason to ask and any time you find your metaphor agreeing with Ayn Rand, you know you're wrong.
That said, I guess the people who ask lots of questions might want to be seen as interesting and curious, while they might not really care about the answers, or maybe are asking their public questions just to see if one specific person answers. They might be hiding attempts to guide public discourse with veiled comments in questions, too.
I think the sign is if you can ask people you're following individualised questions, if you can care about them enough to know what you should be asking and are interested enough to bother asking AND if you're curious enough to know how to ask well, that's something impressive? But nobody's going to give you a cupcake for it.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Wednesday 4 April, 2012 at 06:24
Gideon's answer to softhearted made me think; how closely do you watch yourself? I have the impression that some people, like Kazeno and Snared, observe themselves so carefully that they're almost like two people. Do you analyse your actions very much?
I don't.
It's what makes it so scary.
pressdotexe
responded to Hellwhip
on Wednesday 4 April, 2012 at 09:03
For those of you that went to school, were you the bully? The prom queen? The geek?
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Wednesday 4 April, 2012 at 09:52
You go to bed as the sun rises, do you ever miss going to bed as it sets?
It works itself out, in the end.
Sometimes downplay weaves the submarine back and forth across the date line to mess with those of us who care about how our clocks are set. And SOME of us DON'T APPRECIATE THAT.
pressdotexe
responded to animalwithin
on Wednesday 4 April, 2012 at 08:37
What is your favorite animal, and why?
I am contractually required as a little brother to say Brick. Because she is a bear made out of concrete.
(Thylacleo carnifex, because there was a time when one of the most terrifying animals in the world was the size of a large badger and could bite harder than a t-rex thirty times its size. Honourable mentions to diprotodon, glyptodon, haast's golden eagle and epicyon.)
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Wednesday 4 April, 2012 at 08:37
Does your belief really matter, in the grander scale of things?
Not really, no.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Wednesday 4 April, 2012 at 09:43
Let's talk costuming! Assuming you've had some input into you own costume, if not those of others, are there any rules that simply cannot be broken?
I have to always have a low visual profile and yet still have purple on sight to identify me to other operatives.
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Thursday 5 April, 2012 at 02:52
Everyone is afraid of something, whether they want to believe it or not. What is your most mundane fear?
Me.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Thursday 5 April, 2012 at 02:54
What's the strongest power?
Realism.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Thursday 5 April, 2012 at 06:07
You ever get so used to rejection that you kinda come to expect it? I wonder if I set myself up for it now...
For the most part people unconsciously gear themselves forwards for rerejection. It's not uncommon for guys to deliberatrely try to make sure that the 'rejection' they suffer is somehow the other person's fault. For this reason a large number of guys only ever make attempts at things that they know will fail, because they're more comfortable in a cycle of attempt-fail than they are in the scenario where they succeed and their life changes.
Sometimes we subconsciously sabotage ourselves! Sometimes we try for things that are guaranteed to fail, or deliberately say the wrong thing, or even just let our sadness overtake us because it's easier than being sure of ourselves. Besides, you're eighteen, it's not like you've been trying for years and years and years and failing. Sometimes it really is something wrong with you - like a crippling self-esteem issue or a communication problem. But sometimes, you can just pick five people in a row who aren't right for you and you both see it.
You're really neat and when you're proud of yourself you're an amazing person. Find someone who can hug you through the times when you need it.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Thursday 5 April, 2012 at 09:48
You guys are awesome. Just thought you should know that.
c:
Thanks for being a good person.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Friday 6 April, 2012 at 06:40
What should I change about myself?
You should be more patient. :<
pressdotexe
responded to notthatElmo
on Sunday 8 April, 2012 at 02:22
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Sunday 8 April, 2012 at 07:22
Have you ever been so happy you're fit to burst and can't sleep? I'm about to pass out from lack of it, but I just... I'm happy, and I want to know the happiest moments in your lives.
I found out my name, I met my mother, I met my father, I met my sister.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 9 April, 2012 at 08:37
If you were to write an Aesop's Fable on yourself, what would the moral of the story be?
"Monsters are people too."
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 9 April, 2012 at 09:52
I'm surprised that so far, many of you haven't slow danced. Why is that, I wonder?
I'm really shy.
pressdotexe
responded to tarawc
on Tuesday 10 April, 2012 at 09:51
((So .. I've noticed that "denying" a request to follow, actually does nothing ... ))
((It probably does do something.
Are you getting messages from someone who you don't want giving you messages? if that's the case, the solution is to block. As you've got it set up, what you're doing is saying that other people can't look at what you're doing, not anything in the other direction.))
pressdotexe
responded to itsdipset
on Tuesday 10 April, 2012 at 11:55
Dear god, so many bots/fake accounts are following me. @Laceyisunfair has an ABSURD amount. They say nothing. Just follow. It's obnoxious. Anyone else find this annoying? Or am I just OCD about knowing who is following me? ]]
((You have group-linked interests, like Vegeterianism. That helps the bots to find you.))
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 11 April, 2012 at 12:35
What is the cutest thing you have ever seen? Or one of them?
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Wednesday 11 April, 2012 at 09:02
It's another Google game! What does Google "suggest" you might be searching for if you type in "is " and the first few letters of your name?
is swimming good exercise is switzerland part of the EU is victoria azarenka gay is vicks safe during pregnancy
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Wednesday 11 April, 2012 at 09:02
If you are a science and technology person. Would you trade all your know how for an equal hand in magic? If you are a magic user, would you trade in your spells for equal strength in science and technology? How come?
Not in the slightest, because magic is subservient to science and anyone who says otherwise is a moron who doesn't understand what science actually is.
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Wednesday 11 April, 2012 at 10:03
If there is one, name a song you really like that's in a style/genre you normally can't stand.
I understand I'm not allowed to dislike November Rain.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Wednesday 11 April, 2012 at 05:53
Spinning off on another question I asked: what if metahumans enrolled in active duty military and were put on the front lines of war: would they be considered soldiers or weapons? Would/should they use their powers, or merely the training they are given?
This seems a really strange series of questions to ask. You are aware that the Supreme Court ruled on this, right?
pressdotexe
responded to CareAndControl
on Wednesday 11 April, 2012 at 05:56
Speaking as someone who's aware of both sides of this coin to an extent... Ever consider that you don't know what Magic is?
Nope.
I am aware of what magic is. I'm aware that it follows rules, that it has patterns, that it is bound by cause and effect. I am also aware that it occasionally changes the way other physical laws interact, just in the same way that magnetism can defy gravity.
Magic is a force in this universe, science is a method for understanding things.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Wednesday 11 April, 2012 at 10:15
What are some common misconceptions about you?
That I'm a robot or an AI.
pressdotexe
responded to Solypsos
on Wednesday 11 April, 2012 at 10:52
You want it all but you can't have it. It's in your face but you can't grab it. What is it?
pressdotexe
responded to angelbenton
on Thursday 12 April, 2012 at 08:10
Ever wake up and have no fucking clue where you are or how you got there...?
Yes. :<
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 16 April, 2012 at 05:21
Same question: If ou were a Megaman boss fight, who would you be? What would your weakness be?
Split man. Two aspects, only one vulnerable at any given time, meaning you have to vary and split your shots. No big sweeping attacks but some area control that requires you to play wall jumping games.
I'd be vulnerable to a beam effect, possibly an attack that shot in a line that passed through things, allowing you to hit both splits at once.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Monday 16 April, 2012 at 05:22
Who's someone in your life--anyone--who doesn't use this service, but you wish they did?
I do occasionally wonder what my father and mother would say about questions but now we have @acerbate, so it's like mother's already here.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 17 April, 2012 at 02:40
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Friday 20 April, 2012 at 07:54
http://www.formspring.me/Cearmaid/q/317532800464982974 Lock speculated that you are jealous in this comment thread. Are you?
Yes.
pressdotexe
responded to jillwilliamson
on Friday 20 April, 2012 at 07:54
I've been thinking today - I don't know most of you in person. Are you like you are on FS? Or are you different in person? How different, if you change, and why do you feel the need to hide or change bits of yourself for either place?
In real life, when I start to talk about a topic that I shouldn't, I don't even realise it, and my voice becomes white noise.
Seriously.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Friday 20 April, 2012 at 07:55
Is an emotional wound worse than a physical one?
It can't kill you, which is not merciful.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Friday 20 April, 2012 at 07:55
Have you ever injured someone physically?
Yes.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Friday 20 April, 2012 at 07:55
Have you ever killed someone?
Yes.
pressdotexe
responded to ColdReading
on Saturday 21 April, 2012 at 10:08
How many people can enter the room before you get uncomfortable?
Four, if they're four people I know.
pressdotexe
responded to ColdReading
on Saturday 21 April, 2012 at 10:09
Do you consider yourself a romantic, believing in a true, singular love that you're waiting to find, or have found?
I believe in believing in romance.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 23 April, 2012 at 04:21
How are you doing?
This is the strangest question you've ever asked.
If(how=what is your current emotional state and attitude)then "I'm feeling pretty █████ and otherwise pretty content." else(If(how=instructional guide for the creation of)then "Very expensive medical technology that required a non-mutant, non-magical, non-tech individual." else(if(how=in what matter you are operating)then "Neural interface with a rudimentary chat browser running in a shell script subservient to primary operating functions while I wait for the skydrop to start.")))
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Monday 23 April, 2012 at 08:44
Meetings this morning... blaaah. Someone give me something to make me smile!
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 23 April, 2012 at 09:13
Why me specifically?
If you did an itemised list of your personal traits and interests, especially with your newfound sexual attitudes, you would have what amounts fo a wishlist for not just me but for many people in this same subculture. Even things you consider to be outside of the norm.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Monday 23 April, 2012 at 09:13
How long can you go without sex?
:<
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Tuesday 24 April, 2012 at 04:35
Have you ever had a one night stand? Were you ever approached for one? Do you regret it?
No, yes, yes.
pressdotexe
responded to Vertigirl
on Tuesday 24 April, 2012 at 04:35
chompers always jibberin bout how i shuld lern english like i dun speak it. anyone ever give u shit for ur stutter? wut u do bout it if they do?
Mostly I just look awkward and deal with it, unless it's a wet mission.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 24 April, 2012 at 07:21
pressdotexe
responded to TechnoPepper
on Tuesday 24 April, 2012 at 07:22
TMI Tuesday: The best sex you ever had - where was it, who was it with, what were you on (drugs, alcohol, nothing?), why was it the best?
:|
@ISpyThighHighs. Because he's basically the only person to get past the stutter.
pressdotexe
responded to jillwilliamson
on Tuesday 24 April, 2012 at 07:23
I'm starting to notice a habit of nicknaming people. Mom, Doc, Bats, Blue...I don't think I've ever called these people by their real names! If I was gonna nickname you, what should I go with?
█!
pressdotexe
responded to TechnoPepper
on Tuesday 24 April, 2012 at 07:23
You're standing on the gallows with a noose around your neck and you're asked for your last words - what are they?
So it goes.
pressdotexe
responded to KarnalSin
on Tuesday 24 April, 2012 at 08:47
Other than what your loins are engaged in, is there anything you'd like to talk about? My moniker is Karnal Sin and even I'm getting sick of the insipid teenage hormones on this thing. Get laid and shut up people.
You could just unfollow people. Or try drawing the conversation towards other topics. Or contribute meaningfully to the discourse. Or you could whine passive-aggressively at people while pointing out that you can't spell.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Wednesday 25 April, 2012 at 06:02
Do most people not get past the stutter?
Most people don't get past the stutter. Most people don't get past me being shy.
Sometimes people do, and uh, yeah. Sorry, had a really big morning.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Wednesday 25 April, 2012 at 08:31
If you were forced to leave everything and everyone you currently have behind, what or who would you miss the most and why?
Myself.
There's nobody in my life who won't be fine without me. I won't be myself without them.
pressdotexe
responded to Hellwhip
on Wednesday 25 April, 2012 at 08:32
When someone betrays you, revenge or forgiveness?
Do no small harm.
pressdotexe
responded to Hellwhip
on Wednesday 25 April, 2012 at 08:32
How do you handle the death of a friend? Are you ever just grateful it wasn't you?
I count them. Every time.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 25 April, 2012 at 05:22
Why does a different mental node make someone more appealing?
Many people in this subculture are disconnected from the main culture; they don't 'get' women, they don't know how to interact with them. Kimiko's mental mode is onewhere none of the 'normal' rules abuot women and girls apply. She is, in essence, not a human being with conventional social rules and norms, but rather a largely 'unique' entity driven by an interest in a field of science. She also happens to be a half-asian with a nice chest and a nice bottom and very cute.
In that regard, a boy who wanted to get with her would not have to be able to follow normal social norms - cleaning up, being tidy, being attractive, listening, etcetera -but could substitute instead massive amounts of knowledge for that conventional social mannerism.
This is not an uncommon thing in nerd fiction, and it is very common to depict some girls in this subculture as having different mental modes. This is why even your mental mode is an element of you that seems to have been sculpted to appeal. You don't get angry over things if they are explained logically. You don't understand social norms so you don't get mad about violating them. You are, of course, massively intelligent, so topics of science and video games are topics on which you can engage.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Wednesday 25 April, 2012 at 05:22
Can you type fast?
((lawl.))
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 25 April, 2012 at 05:57
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBzqOa9y02I I wanted to share this with you. I am unsure why.
:)
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Wednesday 25 April, 2012 at 10:11
This one is for press: Do you think that the experience of formspring has been helpful to you and Swivel?
I am Swivel!
But it really is. I've only met one or two people from the website, but they're much less inclined to think of me as a stammering idiot now.
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Wednesday 25 April, 2012 at 10:12
What would you say is your favorite video game? If you had to choose just one for me to try and play, which would it be? Is there any reason or just because?
Shadow of the Colossus.
It has almost no dialogue. It does not tell you much about what you are doing. You are left to imagine the story - and whether it is for good, or for ill - yourself. But the reason I'd recommend it do you is because it is one of only a few video games where the landscape, the environment, is one of the characters. It is a game where exploration for its own sake is worth doing; where climbing that wall or looking over that hill is worth doing, even if there's no special prize on the other side of it.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Wednesday 25 April, 2012 at 10:13
What do you think about forced sterilization?
As a specific punishment, it's not the craziest idea I've ever heard.
I do know that in any nation that's tried it, absolutes of birth control have always resulted in revolution, and that revolution has been bloody and deleritous. Let women control themselves.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Thursday 26 April, 2012 at 01:37
Think about the currency you handle on a daily basis. If there were only 5 denotions of currency below $20, what increments would you want them in?
Nickel, Quarter, dollar coin, ten dollar bill. Don't need five.
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Thursday 26 April, 2012 at 01:38
When you look at the world today, what do you see?
Everything connected, convinced it's not.
pressdotexe
responded to rnaway
on Thursday 26 April, 2012 at 01:39
Do the big or the little things shape you more? Do the big events matter more than the little interludes? Why?
My life is affected most direly by single TCP/IP packets, things so small that if you were to invert e=mc^2 that they would have so little mass that no particle exists to express it.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Thursday 26 April, 2012 at 01:39
How easily can you come up with $2,500 in two days?
I have personal savings significantly above this amount.
pressdotexe
responded to Crowsflight
on Thursday 26 April, 2012 at 07:32
Thoughtful Thursday: Pick someone from your formspring list and send them a hand written letter or note. Sometimes hand written things can mean much more than something typed.
Hm.
Let me see what I can do. @teacuppartisan
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Thursday 26 April, 2012 at 11:34
(As a whole, would you say Formspring has improved your RP and connections, whether it be IC or OOC? :))
((Oh, massively. It's put me up against some fences I'd rather not have anything to do with, and it's given me some eye-rolling moments, but it's probably the most active my RP has been since I left Nation.
Also, I prefer IC questions.))
pressdotexe
responded to jillwilliamson
on Friday 27 April, 2012 at 11:20
I'm thinking of looking for a good local dojang and getting back into training again. It might be time for me to pick up some new tricks Master Jason never taught me before I left home. Anything you're thinking about doing now even though it's been years?
Speed-completionist-run of Super Metroid, non-tool assisted.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Friday 27 April, 2012 at 11:22
What is your stance against bullies?
You're going to see lots of people here talk about how much they hate bullies. Especially bullies.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Friday 27 April, 2012 at 12:18
What is fame in Paragon City?
Not very high in a hierarchy of interesting things.
pressdotexe
responded to Crowsflight
on Saturday 28 April, 2012 at 10:08
Do you like public displays of affection? If someone puts their arm around you in public how do you politely tell them it's not wanted without seeming rude?
They make me lock up. I have to just weather them. Which can be bad if they're not desired and worse if they are.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Saturday 28 April, 2012 at 10:20
I feel cold even though the house heat has been turned up to seventy five degrees and I am wearing three shirts. Have you ever felt like this before? What caused it?
You're sick. You should see a doctor.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Saturday 28 April, 2012 at 10:21
If you were to commit suicide, how would you do it?
Throw myself over the event horizon of a black hole.
pressdotexe
responded to ScionOfFlame
on Saturday 28 April, 2012 at 11:59
I've been thinking about training myself to at least be competent in a hand-to-hand situation. I'm quite tall at six-foot seven inches and I'm fairly fit. Long legs. Any recommendations on a discipline to research? I already know quite a number of them.
Mi'en Chu'an. Long legs, positional relevance, and foreknuckle punches.
pressdotexe
responded to SonnovaWitch
on Sunday 29 April, 2012 at 05:24
How dangerous do you feel your most important skill is?
:<
pressdotexe
responded to laylaward
on Sunday 29 April, 2012 at 05:24
How do you react to threats that may or may not be empty?
Tends to depend what they are. I mean, I use XBLA.
pressdotexe
responded to SonneForce
on Sunday 29 April, 2012 at 06:40
I'm stealing that one - describe your sex life with a movie title.
Failure to Launch
pressdotexe
on Tuesday 1 May, 2012 at 07:55
((For my first real OOC question: What reference materials or characters did you use to help define your character?))
((One of the most direct possible analogues I've ever made, I got Swivel's name while on a random name hunt. While I did have one friend MAKING FUN OF IT FOR A WHILE CHECK HMM, it stemmed from an engineer referring to a swivel as 'a point of flexible instability.'
A few months later, I mentioned that to the same engineer, and he mentioned 'Oh, you must have misheard me,' because it's totally not what a swivel is.
Swivel was a street-sweeper, and that gave me a lot of time to come up with something to be, running around in the hollows soloing the street spawns that nobody else dared touch, back when levelling to 50 in a few weeks was considered impressive. He was my first willpower character - and confirmed to me many of the worst elements of the powerset, and its implications for narrative. Weapon customization played a part in this too; Swivel fights with one widow claw (bare knuckles) and one long claw (the actual blade), and with all these pieces I pulled together something I liked.
Swivel owes his purple colour scheme, his constantly-wired internet connectivity and his transhumanist themes of cyborg transition to Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex. I have often bemoaned the sexism inherent in comic books, where men can be ugly and unpleasant and rude, but all women are attractive. Rather than make women ugly or plain (or worse, CLAIM that they're ugly or plain while still rendering them as gorgeous models), I thought the real redress of this imbalance would be to make men that are attractive. And that's what inspired Swivel's physique.
The personality underneath Swivel came from something else: the Hunchback of Notre Dame. The idea of a person intimidated by a figure who was far weaker than him, someone with strength but too afraid to use it, and someone who was unbalanced and capable of dreadful harm. In the retellings of the story, the character of Quasimodo is often written as having strangled Esmerelda by accident, in order to make the hunchback less sympathetic, to make his terrible punishment feel a little more palatable.
Swivel is a dangerous man; body of an olympic athlete, precision of a surgeon; augmented physique that means he sees the world in a totally different way. In RP and stories, he has done astounding things, he has, despite his physical limitations at the length of his arm, taken out amazing opposition and despite this all, this terrible super-spy agent falls to his knees and lowers his head, calmed down out of a bloody frenzy by a hug.
This is stuff that speaks very powerfully to me, perhaps due to my own issues as a child controlling an outrageous temper.
Now, there's another reference for Swivel; Swivel is meant to be an omnidisciplinary nerd, and I mean nerd in the finest way. He unironically and aggressively reads and understands and examines the world. So for reference to that, I have a browser open, and google active; when someone mentions anything out-of-game that I do not immediately know something about, I google it, and see what the google searches stimulates in my memory. If I know something about it, Swivel will talk like he knows about it; if he doesn't, I don't, and more importantly, he asks.
Swivel is an enormous strain to play, of course, because the other reference I have is a period I spent learning how to write a convincing stutter, managing his emotional and mental states to recognise when he'd breathe more deeply, when the stutter would get worse, when the stutter would relax.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Tuesday 1 May, 2012 at 09:12
They say no man is an island. What about you?
:<
pressdotexe
responded to jouleaux
on Tuesday 8 May, 2012 at 02:58
Are you aware just how utterly adorable you are? I ask this here because if I mention it in person you're going to lose your mind and gain a thousand syllables of the same letter.
I'm really sorry about that. :<
I'm told it? And I've been told I'm cool and a good person. It's nice to hear it, and I wish I could say thank you better.
((Remixed Youtube Video of THANK U BETTA goes here.))
pressdotexe
responded to jouleaux
on Tuesday 8 May, 2012 at 03:34
Tell me something you can do that no one else would guess? Not just from your professional skill-sets, but things that you can do on a more personal level?
It's funny that most everything I know how to do is part of my professional skillset. I mean, knot-tying has come up in more than a few operations. Speaking Swahili has come up. Being able to calm a bolting horse has come up. So to has the creation of home-made toothbrushes.
pressdotexe
responded to jouleaux
on Tuesday 8 May, 2012 at 03:35
Do you ever feel like your identity in person somehow hinders the whole idea behind who you are? You are this confident kind of guy who can speak his mind here, but when you meet people you lose it a bit?
I'm actually a bit bitchier and meaner online than I want to be. I get frustrated in real life, and then I let it happen when I snap at people online.
pressdotexe
responded to jouleaux
on Tuesday 8 May, 2012 at 03:36
Tell me something we can do together, so I can take you out and have fun and shit because I want to hang out with you. This isn't a question but I'll add a question mark so it is?
I'm actually pretty good over Vent (text-to-speech) and online games? Especially cooperative ones with a lot of challenge to them.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Tuesday 8 May, 2012 at 03:38
What was your first victory - and your first defeat?
\>classified pre-asset information
pressdotexe
responded to jouleaux
on Tuesday 8 May, 2012 at 06:08
Who's someone you wish you knew more about? It can be more than one person and shit, just curious.
You, Zex, Myself, Vince, Gillian, Kazeno.
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Wednesday 9 May, 2012 at 01:51
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." How much of this quote do you agree with? Why?
"The strong do what they can, while the weak suffer what they must."
It was wrong in Milos and it's wrong now.
pressdotexe
on Wednesday 9 May, 2012 at 02:23
Я люблю тебя.
I love you too. Thank you for understanding.
pressdotexe
responded to jouleaux
on Wednesday 9 May, 2012 at 02:24
When you think of yourself, what's something you wish you could change? Something that matters to you.
The stutter is apparently a problem.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 9 May, 2012 at 05:22
Вы Интерес меня.
Oh. Thank you.
I can't actually speak Russian, I just use a translator program like I do for Japanese and Hindi.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Wednesday 9 May, 2012 at 05:23
What sight do you wake up to most often? Or you a slow riser or quick to action?
Ceiling of a submarine. Quick.
pressdotexe
responded to laylaward
on Wednesday 9 May, 2012 at 11:27
Hola, kids! Just informing anyone who cares that my laptop was reset to factory fresh and I'm on my little laptop guy (Which runs for shit). Meaning I won't be answering FS for a couple days until I get my situation fixed :P Thanks! <3 ]]
((See you around!))
pressdotexe
responded to jouleaux
on Wednesday 9 May, 2012 at 11:27
Would you rather deal with your mother or your father?
Oh my word my mother so much moreso my mother.
My most salient memory of my father, the time's we've met is I suggested doing something fun, and he said:
"I tried... fun once. It was... inefficient."
pressdotexe
on Thursday 10 May, 2012 at 09:17
Я оставил некоторые вещи для вас, я надеюсь, что они в использовании.
I'll keep an eye out for it.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Friday 11 May, 2012 at 01:05
Do you believe in free will?
No.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Friday 11 May, 2012 at 08:09
Have you ever been out of control of your own actions? How did it make you feel?
:<
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Friday 11 May, 2012 at 10:05
What's in a name: What is your first name, and what language or culture does it come from? What does your first name mean? If you would prefer I do the research for you, just respond with your first name and I will respond in a comment.
████ ███████. I'm led to believe that, barring for my father's half-██████ heritage - him being the son of a ██████ and a █████ - this is a fairly typical, if archaic name from the ████████ area in which he was conceived. His name, ████, means 'trouble,' and I think that whoever assigned me my name ██ ███ █████████ was somewhat aware of the poetic symmetry. Of course, I don't need to explain it - my name is, after all, a fairly common English word!
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Friday 11 May, 2012 at 10:06
What's in a name: What is your codename, if you feel like sharing it? Did you come up with it or was it given to you? Do you think it is a good label for who you are and what you do?
Typically I go by purple, code purple, a variety of rotating codes that are all numeric, or Swivel. It was given to me. And no, it makes me think of office furniture and seems silly.
pressdotexe
responded to EikoMagami
on Saturday 12 May, 2012 at 06:50
How do you feel about people who dress up like their favorite characters from movies or TV or even like us sometimes? What's that all about? Do you do it too?
Cosplay is one of the most challenging forms of fabric art and deserves far more respect than it gets.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Sunday 13 May, 2012 at 09:49
If you wer3 able to create any element on the periodic table what would it be?
Astatine.
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Monday 14 May, 2012 at 10:18
What organization within the Isles or the City would you consider your archenemy or equivalent? What have they done to earn your emnity?
The RIAA?
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Monday 14 May, 2012 at 10:19
Hit "profile shuffle" and say something nice about the person that comes up.
Now I know there's no fear of her reading it, I can say that Ms Zee is all kinds of crazy hot.
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Monday 14 May, 2012 at 10:20
"When a man is faced with his own death, he finds the impossible less of a barrier." Do you agree with the sentiment of this quote? Why?
:<
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Monday 14 May, 2012 at 10:20
"War brings out the best and worst in people" How much of this quote do you agree with? Why?
War.
War never changes.
Until some lackwit decides it needs to be an FPS.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 14 May, 2012 at 10:16
How often do you look to religion for guidance?
I don't.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Monday 14 May, 2012 at 10:17
Tell me something (deemed) average about you?
My looks, my socioeconomic background.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 15 May, 2012 at 09:07
What did YOU get up to today?
Drone photography.
pressdotexe
responded to Pathrunner
on Tuesday 15 May, 2012 at 10:23
"By letting it go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. When you try and try, the world is beyond winning." Thoughts?
Someone wants to justify not trying something hard?
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Wednesday 16 May, 2012 at 02:48
What's your favorite kind of person?
Gamers!
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 16 May, 2012 at 11:15
Why/How are you only "sort of" bisexual?
Well, Honeytrap is male? But I've been told that being attracted to Honeytrap doesn't really count, you know?
pressdotexe
responded to guttersaint
on Wednesday 16 May, 2012 at 11:16
do you fear anything? death?
I fear inflicting.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Thursday 17 May, 2012 at 05:17
It being a day of talk about literature, will you share a favorite passage from a book?
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Friday 18 May, 2012 at 11:19
"Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit." How accurate is this? What's your experience?
It tells us the pleasant lie that the main source of human oppression lies outside ourselves, is the other, is someone we can blame and oppose and attack.
Never let that idea take root.
Oppose the tyrant and depose the fascist but do not do so because We Love Freedom. Do it to protect and to save.
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Friday 18 May, 2012 at 11:21
Do you have a favorite quote (either by yourself or someone else) that you think accurately describes your life at the moment? If so, what is it?
Here is a riddle, to guess, if you can; oh who is the monster, and who is the man?
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Friday 18 May, 2012 at 11:21
Do your skills or abilities come with any complications that you wish you could do without? (This can even include the need for daily training.)
:<
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Saturday 19 May, 2012 at 03:35
In our violent lives, we all take strength in something. Tell me: Are you more dangerous with your friends and loved ones supporting you? Or are you more dangerous when you are utterly alone?
I can do more good with support. I'm more dangerous alone.
pressdotexe
responded to ArielAblaze
on Saturday 19 May, 2012 at 12:31
So I've been barfing all day since my father introduced his new girlfriend to me. She's 22. People that's 4 years older than me. Just how gross is this? What horrible gross stuff have your parents ever been into?
My father was born in 1938.
I'm not even 25.
When I first met my mother, I thought she was younger than me. And she's my actual biological mother.
Family is weird.
pressdotexe
responded to MsRepresntation
on Saturday 19 May, 2012 at 12:32
Have you ever had a secret crush? What did you do about it? Do you have a secret crush right now? What do you plan on doing?
All the ones I have that I'd like to act on are secrets. And I can keep secrets.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Sunday 20 May, 2012 at 05:43
Have you ever had a crush on more than one person at once? What did you do?
I collect them, mostly because I don't ever act on them.
pressdotexe
responded to MsRepresntation
on Sunday 20 May, 2012 at 05:44
Are you okay with who you are? Or, would you rather be like someone else?
Someone simpler, someone who can communicate better, who can ████ ███████ ████ of ████ ██ ██ ██ ███ ████.
pressdotexe
responded to Halfmine
on Sunday 20 May, 2012 at 05:45
If you could be alive during any time in history, as anyone living anywhere who, when and where would you be?
No time before wifi.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Sunday 20 May, 2012 at 05:45
Have you ever been intimidated by the sibling of somebody you have a crush on? What did you do about it?
Stood in a corner and looked at my feet.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Sunday 20 May, 2012 at 05:46
If you really wanted to be with somebody but knew it was a bad idea what would you do?
It's always a really bad idea, so I just stand in a corner and look at my feet.
pressdotexe
responded to EikoMagami
on Sunday 20 May, 2012 at 08:53
When was the last time you really underestimated a villain and found yourself having to ask for help? Who'd you call?
The last time is classified, but I called in Honeytrap's crack team of hunks.
pressdotexe
responded to SonnovaWitch
on Tuesday 22 May, 2012 at 10:14
Do you consider yourself a professional?
I do have a public trust and duty, yes.
pressdotexe
responded to jouleaux
on Wednesday 23 May, 2012 at 02:54
PQ: How do you feel about psychics or anyone who can get inside your head and fuck with your synapse responses?
>:\
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Wednesday 23 May, 2012 at 07:28
How are you remembering May 23rd?
Did it yesterday.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 12:12
Are your parents, or would they be, proud of the person you are today?
I think they are. Mother tells me, but my father is somewhat tight-lipped.
pressdotexe
responded to SonneForce
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 07:21
What or who do you wish you knew more about?
Oh, everything. It's the nice thing about the internet, having access to it at all time. I can look up anything I want, and sit and read and read. It's all out there!
pressdotexe
responded to SonneForce
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 07:24
If you could take a class in anything, what would it be?
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 07:24
For metas: If you could have someone else's meta who's would you have? For non meta's - Same question just "someone's" instead of "someone else's"
Supposedly, I'm both, so I get to be snotty about it.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 07:25
Do you work better alone, with a partner or with a group?
Group. Alone is always bad.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 07:25
What brings you joy?
Interesting things. And everything is interesting.
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 07:26
Are your nightmares always frightening?
:<
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 07:27
Q-bombing; fun occasional practice, or annoying?
You lose a lot of answers if you do it too often. You wind up only seeing the most recent few peoples' answers, and lose all the thoughtful ones at the end.
pressdotexe
responded to lasentinella
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 07:29
What's the biggest thing you've ever pulled apart, and put back together again?
███ █████ ███.
pressdotexe
responded to SonnovaWitch
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 07:30
Have you ever noticed how once someone gives a clever answer to a question, most of the answers after that are further attempts to outclever...?
It's called 'scaling mount cleverest.'
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 07:31
[OOC question! I'd love to see you be able to select one aura for out of combat and one aura for combat only. What is one thing you wish the game would add? ]
((A non-weapon claw option. I'd like to be able to have Swivel fight with a bare hand and a blade.))
pressdotexe
responded to Withoutle
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 08:36
What's the most offensive word you've been called that made you smile?
███████. It was in ███████, though, so the significance was lost.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 08:38
Nomnom - What's for breakfast today?
The nutripaste tube out of a MRE. :I
pressdotexe
responded to juusan
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 08:38
You're doing something else right now; you're thinking of work, or standing in a queue, or waking up with your coffee in hand. So what are you doing?
Hanging upside down!
pressdotexe
responded to juusan
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 08:38
Do you carry a lighter? Cigarettes? Both?
No. I'm not usually required for that kind of infiltration.
pressdotexe
responded to SonnovaWitch
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 09:13
Are there any great unsolved theoretical problems in your field of interest?
P versus NP problem
pressdotexe
responded to SonnovaWitch
on Thursday 24 May, 2012 at 09:13
Does theory and its study impact your work much?
Absolutely. Part of my work requires a practical demonstration of relativity.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Friday 25 May, 2012 at 12:32
Do you know if you will return to Paragon again?
I regularly come back to Paragon. If you'd like to meet up, I can arrange some offship time.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Friday 25 May, 2012 at 08:10
How hard is it for you to say what's on your mind?
Varies, depending on the topic.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Friday 25 May, 2012 at 08:10
Do or did you ever have a secret identity? If you no longer do, why did you reveal yourself?
Pretty sure nobody here knows my real name, so...
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Friday 25 May, 2012 at 08:11
What signature item of your clothing or part of your costume seems to stand out the most or define who you are? What made you add that to your outfit/costume?
The hud. It's just part of the system.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Friday 25 May, 2012 at 08:11
Do you think heroes are more prone or susceptible to mental health issues or illnesses?
Than whom?
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Friday 25 May, 2012 at 08:11
Have you ever subjected yourself to extreme psychic examination or had any hypnotic triggers implanted in your subconscious? Why did you do so?
>:|
pressdotexe
on Saturday 26 May, 2012 at 10:25
pressdotexe
on Saturday 26 May, 2012 at 10:26
pressdotexe
on Saturday 26 May, 2012 at 10:27
pressdotexe
on Saturday 26 May, 2012 at 10:27
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Saturday 26 May, 2012 at 08:15
Do you consider cheating and playing dirty to be just a part of the game?
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Tuesday 29 May, 2012 at 09:06
Secrets: Do you have anything that you once kept secret but now can share with us all? If so, what is it?
██ ████! ██'█ ████!
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Tuesday 29 May, 2012 at 05:35
Do you believe in mercy killing?
:<
pressdotexe
responded to jouleaux
on Tuesday 29 May, 2012 at 05:36
Even with a strong focus, such as work or a project you've been dreaming of for years, do you find yourself missing certain people and wishing to spend more time with them? Even outside of your lover, I mean.
I found getting that focus made me appreciate things I did otherwise.
pressdotexe
responded to EikoMagami
on Tuesday 29 May, 2012 at 05:36
If you didn't have powers and never had them ever. What do you think you'd be doing now? What career would you have? And do you think you'd be happy?
I'd be ██ ██████.
pressdotexe
responded to ChargedWolf
on Thursday 31 May, 2012 at 03:11
I'm a little curious. And it randomly came up.
If you could engage in sexual relations with @laylaward, would you? I wanna see how many yeses this can score.
Assuming you were both available and there were no negative reactions. Be honest.
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Thursday 31 May, 2012 at 03:13
Tell me about: The last thing you tried to get out of your head.
██. :<
pressdotexe
responded to MajorHastings
on Thursday 31 May, 2012 at 10:24
Throwdown Thursday: Who on Formspring do you think would give you an evenly matched fight?
There are no evenly matched fights.
pressdotexe
responded to letitglow
on Thursday 31 May, 2012 at 10:25
Do you hold onto things that you know will not last?
This is called 'being alive.'
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Friday 1 June, 2012 at 02:55
Take more shore time. Pokemon Conquest comes out soon.
For most, yes. :>
You can't read Japanese and be comfortable though, can you?
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Friday 1 June, 2012 at 09:25
Where do you usually get your news? Why do you consider it a trustworthy or accurate source?
You wouldn't believe me if I told you.
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Friday 1 June, 2012 at 09:27
"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing." Do you agree or disagree with the sentiment of this quote? Why or why not?
The two statements are not logically connected and try to draw a parallel between having ideals and believing in things you can't prove.
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Friday 1 June, 2012 at 09:27
"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war." What do you think of this quotation? Does it make sense to you?
That men who insist on peace and refuse to kill can only enjoy that luxury because of people who do not who stand guard over them at night.
pressdotexe
responded to FaigeHarrison
on Sunday 3 June, 2012 at 10:20
Have you ever written dirty fanfiction about another hero or villain?
No, but I can give you suspiciously coincidental IP information about some people who have.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Sunday 3 June, 2012 at 08:16
How do you repay help that's been priceless to you?
I take comfort in the fact that by giving, these people show themselves to be strong.
pressdotexe
responded to laylaward
on Monday 4 June, 2012 at 07:46
Without that major life changing moment (someone you met, a tragedy, a love, having powers).. Who would you be? Get emotional. Where would you be, really?
Prison.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 4 June, 2012 at 09:37
Do you have any influence on your shore time?
When there's hot operations, no, but I do at the moment. Tomorrow?
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 4 June, 2012 at 09:37
What's the last significant wound you sustained?
Classified.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Wednesday 6 June, 2012 at 02:30
How happy with your current job are you?
=D
pressdotexe
responded to juusan
on Wednesday 6 June, 2012 at 06:30
Is your weakness in mind, in body, or in how they connect?
Mind.
pressdotexe
responded to juusan
on Wednesday 6 June, 2012 at 06:30
Are lies bad?
For most people.
pressdotexe
responded to juusan
on Wednesday 6 June, 2012 at 06:30
What art would you be studying, if you could be?
Videogame design?
pressdotexe
responded to SanderWilson
on Wednesday 6 June, 2012 at 10:32
What was the last thing you lied about?
>=D
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Thursday 7 June, 2012 at 05:27
The last time your face went red? Literally or figuratively, take your pick.
Thinking about this answer.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Thursday 7 June, 2012 at 10:07
Do you have a suggestion how to name an imagined pokemon? I have difficulty with naming conventions.
They're not trying very hard, these days. The Japanese language ones tend to be punnier and cleverer, but really it just seems to a degree that they're clamoring for good English ones at the moment. I mean, scraggy?
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Sunday 10 June, 2012 at 08:01
Tell me about the last time you committed a crime in your thoughts.
There are no crimes in people's thoughts, and there is no commitment in minds.
pressdotexe
responded to Vertigirl
on Friday 15 June, 2012 at 10:10
do u liek gettin ur pitcher took?
Not really.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Saturday 16 June, 2012 at 05:01
If you had to go back in time to ensure your own conception, what song that was popular 9 months before your birth would you play to get your parents in the mood to conceive you?
My parents didn't actually have any on-getting to conceive me.
Here's a similar fun game. Look up the date 9 months before your birthdate, and see what the headlines were, local to you. That's what turned your parents on, or failed to turn them off enough.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Monday 18 June, 2012 at 03:06
How trusting are you of your friends?
I have a great deal of trust for my friends. People don't become my friends without demonstrating their trustworthiness.
pressdotexe
responded to Withoutle
on Wednesday 20 June, 2012 at 07:39
Hey, how would you tell someone you love them if you're not good at saying that? Practiacl suggestions, people. Bonus if it involves books or something
n/a
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Wednesday 20 June, 2012 at 07:40
'It might be just crazy enough to work!' Has a really dumb plan or idea worked out really well for you? If so, what happened?
\>
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Wednesday 20 June, 2012 at 07:40
'Just as planned!' Of all the past plans and gambits you have worked on, which has been the most successful that you can talk about here and now? What complications did you have to overcome to get it to work?
\>
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Wednesday 20 June, 2012 at 07:40
How much do you think about the future? How far ahead do you try to think to make predictions for your own life and the lives of others?
\>
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Wednesday 20 June, 2012 at 07:40
How much do you think about the past? How far back do you look when reflecting and how often do you revisit past events to reexamine them?
:<
pressdotexe
responded to DoctorDavidson
on Wednesday 20 June, 2012 at 07:40
Do you have a 'worst case scenario' plan? If you do can you share a detail about it that does not compromise its security? If you do not have such a plan, what would motivate you to make one?
\>
pressdotexe
responded to juusan
on Thursday 21 June, 2012 at 10:21
Not From Juusan: Can anyone recommend my brother some voice-recognition software for this website?
There are a couple of free applets, but it would depend on the device you use to interact with the website. A mobile phone, for example, has a microphone, by necessity.
pressdotexe
responded to EikoMagami
on Thursday 28 June, 2012 at 07:59
Mistaken for Hispanic again today!! Are people blind?! Have you ever been mistaken for someone or something else? How'd you cope?
People tend to think I'm much older than I am.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 30 June, 2012 at 07:54
How old are you?
██. I think this one gets censored.
pressdotexe
on Saturday 30 June, 2012 at 07:55
pressdotexe
on Saturday 30 June, 2012 at 07:55
pressdotexe
responded to ScarletWarden
on Saturday 30 June, 2012 at 07:58
If you were a Megaman style robot master, what power would be obtained when you were defeated? I like to think I'd grant a firey, screen-clearing smartbomb.
((More art for characters I don't have formspring accounts for! Thanks, @ArgentGirl !))
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 11 July, 2012 at 12:52
What's the most memorable place you've ever been?
I tried to make a racy joke here but I can't.
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Thursday 12 July, 2012 at 01:09
What kind of evil laugh do you use?
I have a stutter.
pressdotexe
responded to Vertigirl
on Tuesday 17 July, 2012 at 10:50
(( @Pathrunner for last week's Fan art Friday! Her keepsake was a letter from a friend! ))
((I really dig this one.))
pressdotexe
responded to totallywitchin
on Wednesday 18 July, 2012 at 06:03
Why do I come back to formspring and the interface is changed again? Can't they make up their minds?
Oh no, things involving technology change! And sometimes they change for reasons that aren't immediately apparent to me! Quickly, to the caves! Rocks will never change and confuse us!
pressdotexe
responded to MajorHastings
on Sunday 22 July, 2012 at 10:27
And one more love related question: Have you ever loved someone, but were too afraid to admit it to them, or even yourself? Did you? Will you?
I'm really bad at communicating love, because it's an emotionally important thing. I really like say, Honeytrap - he's my teammate and I really respect him - but I feel about him very similar to the way I feel about Zex. This is a topic that makes my stutter worse.
pressdotexe
responded to EikoMagami
on Sunday 22 July, 2012 at 10:35
Something I overheard: the intrinsic rewards of social media are often more satisfying than the intrinsic rewards of personal relationships. First, what's this even mean and second, how much do you agree?
What it means is that we develop a set of responses to social media's interfaces. Like the skinner box experiments - but you know how when you see the activity button with a little green light next to it, you don't get a little excited?
Basically, what it means is that we can teach ourselves to appreciate social media's interface more than we appreciate the actual interaction with other people.
I agree in that it can work out that way for some people.
pressdotexe
responded to EikoMagami
on Sunday 22 July, 2012 at 10:36
OMG the power is out at my place! What kind of stuff do you do when you find yourself without the comforts of electricity?
It's a sub. We'd have bigger problems.
pressdotexe
responded to MajorHastings
on Sunday 22 July, 2012 at 10:37
Have you ever told someone you loved them, but didn't mean it?
No.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Tuesday 24 July, 2012 at 03:32
Have you been to your country's capital?
It would be quicker to tell you what capitals I haven't been to.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 24 July, 2012 at 03:34
Do you have an opinion of Idra?
Grack?
I wish skill and talent weren't so thoroughly wedded to obnoxiousness in our culture. It's a byproduct of how we as Americans regard intelligence and strategic thinking as being fundamentally 'wrong' compared to machismo and displays of grandstanding. If Idra had grown up thinking that winning and losing was a part of an equation, and venerated scientists, for example, instead of trying to drag football culture into gaming culture, he might have a reputation as being one of the Nestea-level thinkers of the game.
As it stands, he's good, but he's also an ass. To be fair, so's Byun (I'm never going to call you Ghostking, Byun). And unfortunately, much of the top-level non-Korean players have a really bad streak of social retardation in them (also looking at you, Naniwa).
pressdotexe
responded to SnaredJr
on Tuesday 24 July, 2012 at 07:11
Would you say you've changed a lot from your time as a kid?
I have.
pressdotexe
responded to Withoutle
on Tuesday 24 July, 2012 at 07:11
You got any memories of friends you had growing up?
No.
pressdotexe
responded to WhiteShader
on Wednesday 25 July, 2012 at 09:51
Late Night Tuesday: What's the most recent thing that has kept you up at night?
A militia in Belarus.
pressdotexe
responded to KattyKlepto
on Sunday 29 July, 2012 at 01:05
Are foxes cats or dogs? It is very confusing.
Foxes are more closely related to dogs than they are to cats. In classification terms, a Fox is Animalia Chordata Mammalia Carnivora Canidae Vulpini, while a housecat is Animalia Chordata Mammalia Carnivora Felidae F. Catus.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Sunday 9 September, 2012 at 08:56
((And one more of Mirror Shade also by =TovioRogers. He emailed them to me together. He's fast! I commissioned 6 arts from 3 artists at about the same time and he got me these two first.))
(("I'm looking for something in 'Batshit Crazy' and 'Tits.'))
pressdotexe
responded to Coryismedamnit
on Monday 10 September, 2012 at 03:49
I never properly thanked you for your assistance during various events. Might we meet sometime?
Sure!
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 10 September, 2012 at 10:39
I love getting piles of direct questions, and I want to return the favor. But I'm worried about asking things that Press will have to sensor. Do you have any suggestions on topics I can ask you about?
Videogames are almost always safe. If there's an issue of emotional importance, or something that can be used to make me embarassed, Press will sometimes censor it in order to make me look bad and keep me on edge. I like talking about games of all genres, mostly in the golden gaming age of the 90s. I like talking about places around the world I've been to, and I actually really like 'interesting facts' about things. It's hard to ask that last one because it's basically impossible to find something that isn't interesting when you do look into it.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Monday 10 September, 2012 at 10:31
Who is your favorite Harry Potter character?
I actually feel a little bad about how little I care about Harry Potter. It's like a geek Shibboleth and I don't really speak it.
pressdotexe
responded to Withoutle
on Tuesday 11 September, 2012 at 09:39
Best final fantasy?
Six.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Thursday 13 September, 2012 at 11:29
((Looking back, what was the best idea for a character, group and/or storyline you never followed through on (that you don't intend to pull off in the next 2 and a half months)?))
((In all seriousness, Project Breakout.
Players would be approached to make a character for it. Characters would start with almost no 'back'story: Instead, everyone involved would RP out their beginning in a laboratory with the rest of the group, coming to, discovering powers that worked with greater potency in proximity to one another.
Then, characters would break out - literally - of the laboratory, only to find themselves blinking into the sunlight not of the bright Paragon stories, but of the more brutal horrors of the Etoile. The story would then follow them as they tried to work out what happened to them, try to establish base camps, and work on getting 'home,' or at least, to paragon. The story then tripped to the arc of a group, regarded as terrorists and wannabes, who had built a reputation in the isles, proving themselves as heroes in Paragon City, before the culminating arc being their acceptance, and ultimate confrontation with who made them who they are.
There was more behind it - the backstory was roughly worked out in my head, and had some leeway for players to create and invent what they wanted over the top. Not to get too excessively detailed here, the general idea was that the characters had all had false memories implanted in them, and so their memories of normal life were all artificial, and they had another, equally 'real' life.
The notion behind them was to use a model I used to great effect back in Nation, where every week the plot advanced a stage; every week, characters were given little envelopes of 'this is what's going on for you' and asked to RP out onwards. They had direction and agency, and could even change what they were given to some extent ("Hey, I'm going to say that it was a man, not a woman" or "Hey, I had this idea and I'm going to run with it"), but the point was the steady feeling of progression and consequence. There was a DM writer behind it - me - but people could take the role from me if they wanted it and rah rah rah.
I even had an idea for the big twists of the plot, the grand narrative. Ah well.))
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Thursday 13 September, 2012 at 11:41
What do you collect?
Video games, television series, answers, secrets. One such answer is to the question 'Does this function have any persistence to it,' which sadly, is no. Still, it's nice for a short term thing!
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Thursday 13 September, 2012 at 11:44
Do you collect for your own enjoyment alone, or with the intention of sharing or showing off what you've gathered?
Everything I collect, I collect in threes; a storage piece, which is the best quality version of whatever it is, a user, and a loaner. I was really frustrated when I'd say things like 'Skies of Arcadia was a really fantastic JRPG with a beautiful style and a wonderful collect-them-up angle,' or 'Suikoden was a great example of what development space could do without bothering with adapting quickly to extant 3D properties,' when I couldn't just HAND it to the person I spoke to.
Of course, I have extra loaners around for consoles, because sometimes people don't have the console for the game that I'm talking about.
The storage pieces are meant to be stored so they can be looked at, and so they can last. They don't have to be shown off, but I want to know they're safe and can be examined if I or others want.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Thursday 13 September, 2012 at 11:47
What determines whether something belongs in your collection or doesn't? Beyond just "whether it's a baseball card or not" (for example), how do you determine what doesn't belong?
Subjectively. Some things it's easy - collecting every dreamcast game wasn't very hard, but collecting three copies of Suikoden 2 was a gigantic pain in the butt. Three full sets of Monster? Easy.
If it's something truly unique, like Tezuka's Sketches, or one of the first-run Street Fighter 2 Standups, even if I have a chance at acquiring it, I'll avoid it, because those can't be used and loaned and shared. Those things belong in museums.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Friday 14 September, 2012 at 07:48
Can you tell us about a situation with your preferred sex that was awkward then, but funny now?
Given how many people laugh when they hear about or witness, them I'd say most all of those situations.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Friday 14 September, 2012 at 09:00
TMI Friday: Would you have sex with a clown?
No, I wouldn't sleep with you.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Sunday 16 September, 2012 at 09:53
Does rain effect your mood at all? If so is it a positive or negative feeling?
Yes. It's generally positive.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Sunday 16 September, 2012 at 09:29
Do you have any cavities?
Before I started making enough money to have health insurance my mouth looked like an abandoned graveyard.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Monday 17 September, 2012 at 09:07
What small act of kindness were you once shown that you will never forget?
There are no small acts of kindness.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 17 September, 2012 at 10:47
Can you elaborate on core programming?
It's part of what made me a good candidate for the press surgical augmentation program. The Trattington Medical Research group needed a hypothetical psychological template that showed no evidence of non-baseline mutation, chemical influence - despite my upbringing in a drug cradle like Flint, I never actually partook of any psychoactives or did any weed, since I was kind of too busy beating the living shit out of older teenagers for doing things like sneezing behind me. The thing is they figured that because my mind was so prone to snapping and snapping back, that there had to be some sort of simplistic 'loop,' some start point for my own psychological code. Because of that, after experiences in prison where they induced and reinduced the psychotic breaks, they were able to isolate the 'point zero' of my mind and use that as the anchor point for the press prototype that started to augment and replace my grey matter as it degenerated.
That probably all got censored. Let me try again. It's a lot like having the source code for someone's brain, in a mathematical formula.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Monday 17 September, 2012 at 05:46
How do you get over a breakup?
I imagine I'd stand in the corner and look at my shoes.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Monday 17 September, 2012 at 05:46
Is there such a thing as pure evil in a human being?
Inasmuch as evil exists it exists in people. Some people are distilleries for the stuff.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 18 September, 2012 at 07:51
What is one (or a few) of your favorite RPGs? Why?
My favourite RPG is the PC game Planescape Torment. I like it a lot because I can remember, replaying it, what made me love it.
At first I was drawn to the idea of the storytelling device; you wake up, dead, in a morgue, which wasn't how most games went. It had to challenge you without killing you, without using typical 'save and reload' mechanisms, which made the story more important.
I then became caught up in the story because of two things - one, the game seemed to make exploit-level xp gain really easy. It made me imagine that I was somehow outsmarting the game and that I was cleverer than the developers. Also, Sheena Easton's voice was the one behind Annah, and I found her very attractive. By now I know the archetype - a beautiful woman with visible deformities that only serve to highlight her attractiveness isn't really 'ugly' - but I really was appealed by the ugly badass tomboy. So I played on for that.
Then I found that the game did know that there were 'tricky' ways to earn XP - that you could get a remarkable amount of XP and advancement just by reading the dialogues and staying on top of the conversations with your cohorts. What I thought at first was a borderline cheat was in fact just the developers leaving breadcrumbs for me to follow, and the challenges I was facing were ramping up such that if I hadn't been doing that, the game could have been really punitive.
When I got to the main theme of the story - the first time I ever really considered that the story HAD a main theme - it touched me very deeply and very personally. When I finished the game, I cried, and I have a number of the quotes written down in hand on old notebooks I used before the press interface was fixed.
I also enjoyed Final Fantasy 6, because the recruitment made me feel like I was acquiring friends. I could imagine that getting friends was like this - you had to be in the right place and the right time, and you had to have the right things or people on hand. It was a puzzle, a trick, not a vast web of labyrinthine tricks that involved people getting into my personal space until I wanted them there.
The RPG I've played the most is probably Baldur's Gate 2, which is very moddable and whose playerbase include at least one developer who was so dissatisfied with the ending he helped create modding tools that he could then create new challenges for players who had progressed past the game's original ignorance-based challenge curve. It wasn't legal for them to print the rules of combat in the game's manual, they could only give general guides for what you wanted, which meant for people who really did understand the mechanics (or learned them quickly), the game got easy fast. Moreso when you knew about a lot of the fixed locations and powerful combinations or tricks.
I remember one player doing a One-Life Solo playthrough, with one character completing all the optional sidequests without ever reloading the game, saving only to end the game.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 18 September, 2012 at 07:51
What is one (or a few) of your favorite fighting game? Why?
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 18 September, 2012 at 08:11
Do you feel games in general have gotten worse over time?
This is really tricky to say. I think the game industry as an industry has gotten more corrupt as it's gotten bigger, and as it approaches the same economic status as major financial enterprises like movies, it's definitely gotten more exploitive. Game designers and developers are basically people who direly want to make video games and are willing to do harder work for less than if they were system administrators or the like. So you get this whole industry that is powered by people who love it and people who are milking it, and that's why you get things like EA.
On the other hand, there was this brief period where technology and creativity catalysed - the shareware model and the mass distribution available by BBS and the internet, but games were so big comparative to download speeds that piracy wasn't as big a concern. I think it's like, 1998-2002 where you can look at the summer games and be awed that they all came out in a chain.
I won't lie, I resent the Playstation a little but I have to move on from that.
Overall, older games are better games because they've stood the test of time, been bugfixed (generally) and are designed with more modability and less proprietary control in mind. There's also less of an idea of appealing to a core mass market, and less of a follow-the-leader effect. Doom caused a spate of FPSes to come out, but the FPSes that it inspired were all over the place in what they were - and they were mostly trying to do things different in theme and tone and style. Duke Nukem 3D and Quake were both inheritors of that legacy, and can you tell me that those two games could even on a technical level be reasonably compared?
There's this twofold problem where modern games exert a market pressure and don't. We probably would have a new Megaman game if Zynga hadn't shit on Inafune's outlook and made him convinced that a social facebook game was the place to go to.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 18 September, 2012 at 09:04
What makes you resent Playstation?
It was the first mass-media video game platform that was advertised at me. In hindsight, I look back on it, and realise that what I was seeing was a thing being taken away from someone who had loved and cared for it, and being given to me, who had no appreciation for it, with a sheen of glitz and glamor. I retroactively feel like a burglar. playing with stolen toys, and it makes me feel ashamed. It also makes me angry that there was this great medium, with this great strength to it, which I didn't notice at all because nobody had set it to a hiphop track and made it look stylish.
It reminds me that I was young, weak, and fucking stupid, and that I fell for market manipulation.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 18 September, 2012 at 09:16
How do you feel?
I am less frightened than I was.Downplay is running some tests for me.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 18 September, 2012 at 09:18
How do you feel about western RPGs versus JRPGs?
My favourite RPGs are western, but I love the SNES era JRPGs. As time goes by, the J of JRPGs has made them worse, while the western RPGs have been focusing instead on improving as RPGs.
Basically, right now, almost all JRPGs are terrible, and not being terrible is an exception, not a rule. I after all love Devil Survivor (and a lot of things that Atlus have released).
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 18 September, 2012 at 09:45
What was the best Prince of Persia game?
What?
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 18 September, 2012 at 10:14
What sort of places do you LIKE to go to?
I really like visiting the Eurozone - there's so much nice food and all the locations are close together. In Germany, you can't walk for an hour without running into some human settlement. There's also a lot of beautiful stuff in South American - the andes are gorgeous, even if I have very little reason to go there. Also, the amount of pornography you can get for five dollars in Russia is truly astounding.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 18 September, 2012 at 10:18
What are a few really good "interesting facts" about things?
Potatoes, apples, and bell peppers all taste the way they do because of tiny traces of poison in them. Apples are so genetically diverse that any given apple will be a different variety of apple to the tree from which it grew. Over 80% of the world's thunderstorms happen in the same location at the mouth of the Matacumba river. The loudest thing that there ever was was the Tunguska incident, in northern Russia. In the space race, Soviets did not use pencils in their space capsules, because a broken lead could be potentially lethal for people or for the hardware of the system itself. The Soviets got a robot drone onto the moon before the Americans got a person there - in fact, they were both on the planet at the same time.
That's just off the top of my head.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 18 September, 2012 at 10:19
If someone wanted to learn about gaming's roots, what classics would you recommend?
Missile Command, Night Driver, Super Mario Bros, Commander Keen, Final Fantasy 4.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 18 September, 2012 at 10:20
If someone was trying to get into gaming, what modern (or semi-modern) games would you recommend to them?
Assassin's Creed 2, Call of Duty: Modern Whichever It Is Now, Rayman Legacy, Analogue: A Hate Story.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 18 September, 2012 at 09:07
What is one (or a few) of your favorite FPSs? Why?
System Shock 2. It never felt like the ammunition limit was arbitary, because you never had enough to hit that cap. It had great atmosphere. Shodan was an amazing villain. The interface manipulation of the last fight was magnificently scary. It was a great example of how to tell a story about a claustrophobic environment with lots of circuitous backtracking without it feeling forced. It made spiders scary.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 19 September, 2012 at 06:01
I have been more open with you the past few times we've hung out. Has this changed your perception or thoughts about me?
Not really? I mean, it's made it slightly more easy to be comfortable around you, but it hasn't revealed anything about you that's really changed my opinion. You're still Zex.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Wednesday 19 September, 2012 at 09:12
((What's an aspect of your character that you never expected to be as important as it is?))
((Swivel's sex appeal.))
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Wednesday 19 September, 2012 at 09:13
((With the recent spate of plans going forwards, what's someone you wish you'd gotten around to making?))
((I remember a long discussion and proposal with pohysb about the idea of turning certain key words in the creator into theta characters - using the data normally reserved for nondisplaying characters to make 'the' 'and' 'an' and 'of' into individual letters for name length purpose. It was technically feasible, but there was no compelling reason to do it - meaning that the name The Knight Of Long Knives would always be one letter too long.))
pressdotexe
responded to Withoutle
on Thursday 20 September, 2012 at 08:32
Ever seen someone's else's happy ending?
I've seen a couple. It's very sweet when it happens. There was a time in classified I helped classified get to her helicopter extraction point. That's when she told me that she was in love with me (v.awkward) but also with classified. It was really nice to be able to smile and watch two people in love fly away to somewhere safe.
I think she thinks I took it harder than I did.
pressdotexe
responded to EikoMagami
on Thursday 20 September, 2012 at 05:09
Hey. Anbaric Amber says that there's a "seam" in between the worlds that leads to a parallel universe version of Detroit. She's lost track of it but she knows it's there, she says. If so, would you check it out?
I don't tend to have anything to do with interdimensional stuff except when it's a classified classified.
pressdotexe
responded to EikoMagami
on Thursday 20 September, 2012 at 05:09
Detroit. What's in Detroit that you are so interested in?
A third world city in a first world nation.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Thursday 20 September, 2012 at 07:37
Is too much freedom ever a bad thing?
I think so.
Regulation and controls are essential for a society. There needs to be taxation; there needs to be public responsibility. Michigan is a state that's deregulated things en masse, reduced government involvement in everything, and this is mostly done under the banner of 'more freedom.'
The nice ideal is for us to have as few laws as we can, for legal codes to be as simple as they can be, and for everyone to live free and clear under the idea that 'my freedom to swing my fist ends at your nose.' But we don't live that way, and people can't think that way - the further you get from direct impact, the harder it is to behave responsibly. That's why liberty needs to have some limits on it - limits designed to keep us from doing things we don't realise.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Thursday 20 September, 2012 at 11:55
Do you often feel safe?
No, almost never.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Thursday 20 September, 2012 at 11:55
What sort of security do you employ at your apartment?
I live there.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Friday 21 September, 2012 at 12:00
I say Monster, you think:
Sieh mich an! Schau mich an! Das Monster in mir hat dies bereits große gewachsen!
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Friday 21 September, 2012 at 12:00
Were you afraid of monsters as a kid?
No.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Saturday 22 September, 2012 at 12:16
Monster the fiction or Monster the energy drink?
Sieh mich an! Schau mich an! Das eisen Tyranne in mir hat dies bereits große gewachsen!
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 22 September, 2012 at 12:16
How do you view liberty?
iron tyrant
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 22 September, 2012 at 12:16
How often do you provide security to others?
iron tyrant
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 22 September, 2012 at 12:16
What is a monster?
iron tyrant
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Saturday 22 September, 2012 at 07:03
Are you going to be okay?
Yeah. I'm in the shit for presenting a security hazard, but it seems the problem is classified rather than classified.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Saturday 22 September, 2012 at 07:03
How has your understanding of your powers or skills changed since you first discovered or developed them?
A propensity for inflicting pain is more intuitive than any moral person would ever expect.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 23 September, 2012 at 06:48
How often do you provide security to others?
Without getting into classified stuff, my work involves providing security, en masse, to a vast section of the world. I do this by making sure some people are much less secure than they'd like to be, but those people nominated themselves for such treatment.
pressdotexe
responded to EikoMagami
on Sunday 23 September, 2012 at 06:49
How do you balance liberty and security? It seems like it would be hard to have both.
The tension between these things is a matter of mindset. In a culture where people respect one another and the assumption is that we are all in this world together, it's very easy to balance the two - people do not have an expectation that their liberty can trample other people's liberty.
If you can lock the door to your apartment, you are equally free to unlock it and leave. You have that option - liberty and security are not inherently at odds.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Tuesday 25 September, 2012 at 06:17
What's your projected lifespan?
I used to have a medical computer hooked up that made this a really precise detail. Now it's gone quiet, my last projection is sixteen years, based on current lifestyle.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Tuesday 25 September, 2012 at 05:52
Seriously, any ETA on you being all better?
It all depends on how a person defines 'better.' I'm still a threat, but not to my friends or security.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Tuesday 25 September, 2012 at 06:44
What was the last well-meaning thing someone said... that really upset you?
I have a hard time dredging up times in my memory when I was really upset.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 25 September, 2012 at 09:22
What is a monster?
A monster is something that is familiar, but made unsettling for having something wrong. A spider is not a monster - it's just a single bug, and even the biggest spiders aren't that intimidating to people who aren't arachnophobes. A lizard isn't a monster either, it's just different from us mammals.
The transition point of monsters is when a thing becomes something we fear because of what we can see in it. Godzilla trashing a city is scary in part because he represents a punishment we brought on ourselves. As humans, we are wired to see the connections between ourselves and our surroundings, and no matter how unreal a titanic dinosaur smashing buildings is, we still see it as horrifying because of its impact on human entities.
Look at Cloverfield - the monster in that was actually relatively meaningless, it could have been an earthquake. On the other hand, Willard is a monster in his story, even though he is that because years of systemic abuse and isolation made him such.
The best monsters are ones that reflect us to ourselves.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Wednesday 26 September, 2012 at 12:55
How often do you ask about other peoples' opinions/experiences because you really just want to share your own?
Go on, then.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Wednesday 26 September, 2012 at 12:56
Does anybody else prefer looking at small text /without/ antialiasing?
I don't really 'see' text the way normal people do, you know? It scopes in until it's a happy size for my eyes.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Wednesday 26 September, 2012 at 12:58
Have there been any truly great 3D platformers that aren't based on parkour/free-running? Actual action platformers, not just adventure games with some jumping puzzles.
One or two.
For the most part, though, the 'action' part of platformer is a dial.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Wednesday 26 September, 2012 at 08:59
I'm still stuck "on location" for another few days... is it really true that PRESS isn't blanking your words any more?
Yep. I can talk about classified topics but they just become the text 'classified,' and I get a flag that I shouldn't do that. The black-out, with the illusion that I wasn't being censored was Press' censorship protocol over the classified one.
It's... a little frightening.
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Wednesday 26 September, 2012 at 09:12
Hang on, you never knew when you were being censored, right? So you really were willing to just say all those things in the open, even like admitting who you have a crush on like it ain't no thing? Little brother, do you have huge giant balls or what?
It's easy in text.
What, you think you were the only huge dick with swinging balls in the family?
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Wednesday 26 September, 2012 at 09:53
You mention "frightening", but you never knew when PRESS was censoring you. Did you come to rely on it as cover, even though you couldn't be sure when it would kick in?
I know that press had controls in place to prevent a psychotic or violent break. It was very comforting to feel safe from ever risking hurting anyone.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Thursday 27 September, 2012 at 10:16
How do you view liberty?
A vital complication in the execution of my duty. People are free to tell lies, free to make secret associations, free to consider big questions like 'What would happen if we defoliated the rockies?'
It's when those things become actions that lead to the harming of others or property of us all that we have to get involved, and it can be a fine apple to peel.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Thursday 27 September, 2012 at 10:17
Is the ability to violate another person's privacy fundamentally a part of free society?
Yep! The right to privacy is a governmental right - the government has no right to peek in your back window and monitor your behaviour. But your neighbour who peeks in your back window isn't violating your constitutional rights - they're doing something more mundane, which is, usually, committing a crime.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 2 October, 2012 at 08:05
If you could live in a simulated reality of your choosing, would you? Why?
I already do.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 2 October, 2012 at 08:09
If a machine could copy your EXACT thought process (down to the fine detail of how you would think differently in the future), and digitally uploaded that process to an AI, would you consider that AI a clone? Where do the lines blur?
I thought this was going to happen, actually. I thought of them as my brothers - and now I find they'll never be. Just these big databanks that think like me, stored in some quiet room somewhere, winking silently to the indifferent darkness.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 2 October, 2012 at 08:39
What's interesting about Detroit?
It's possible you don't react to this. It's possible heroes who read this will look at it and go 'Oh well, sucks for them.' But if you can't look at this and see at the very least a terrifying waste of public works and territory, there's something missing inside you. And then it's worse when you consider that in this state, the government has effectively ceded government of entire residential areas to corporate entities, while the police have cordoned off whole areas where gang conflicts are so dangerous that you can't fly a helicopter overhead because it will be shot down.
Imagine if Kings Row was the size of all of Paragon and housed over a million people. And then imagine if politics and racism and the idiotic drug war and the aftermath of MFR let it slide dowhill, backwards, into the state of neofeudalism.
It's a city where a vigilante gang, the Angry Eagles, who threaten to kill people who harm their members, are considered one of the good guys.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 2 October, 2012 at 05:31
What started it off? What got your relationship going?
I don't have one. I haven't had one, I think, ever - Honeytrap and I hooked up a few times - apparently, I was slightly tipsy at a Halloween party once and that gave me enough confidence to feel safe getting intimate with someone - and Zex and I have hooked up, but that's pretty much it. Everything else prior to that was prison and prior to that was not really 'relationship' status at all.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 2 October, 2012 at 05:32
What defines a clone? The moment one is created, is it as legitimate a form of life as any other?
Right now, a clone is defined by being a copy of another thing. Two things made at the same time from identical designs don't seem to be considered clones, even though identical twins do that biologically all the time. How it's copied doesn't seem to matter as much as that it's copied at all.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 2 October, 2012 at 05:34
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 2 October, 2012 at 05:34
What's your favorite part of Formspring?
The lack of face-to-face interaction and the ability to communicate without using my voice.
pressdotexe
responded to WhiteShader
on Thursday 4 October, 2012 at 04:38
So I'm pretty much moving to London this Sunday. For any of you that have been there, what's it like? What're the hotspots? What should I watch out for? Who do you think is the best player in Manchester United? (kidding)
Tell people you're Canadian.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Thursday 4 October, 2012 at 07:43
Do you wish you were like me, easily amused?
I can't begin to tell you how many ways I'm so extraordinarily glad I'm not really very much like you at all.
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Thursday 4 October, 2012 at 08:00
Is it socially acceptable for men to cry in public?
Statistically, yes.
pressdotexe
responded to Ultimogirl
on Saturday 6 October, 2012 at 07:32
Would you rather have the ability to fly, or the ability to breathe underwater? ('Heroing' doesn't have to factor into your answer, answer for fun and exploring if you wish!)
Nice QOTD.
pressdotexe
responded to EikoMagami
on Saturday 6 October, 2012 at 09:32
((How many alts do you have? I mean, that you play regularly. Who is your favorite and why? Have they always been your favorite?))
((Last checked, I have 48.))
pressdotexe
responded to MagnusTorentsa
on Saturday 6 October, 2012 at 09:49
((FYI I reverted my handle in game back to @VR Torentsa. Ah, it feels good to be home. Fun Fact: After changing it to @Polymorph Hex and thinking it was kind of cool I learned that "Hex" is CoH slang for "Sex" in game. As Magnus would say, Hilarious!))
((I know that I kicked off a spawn of my friends' alts by hijacking the name Rough Hex from @Eisregen at one point. In that period I saw the alts Hex Education and Group Hex getting made - as well as Hex On Wheels.))
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Wednesday 10 October, 2012 at 04:20
((Please forgive the OOC! Chad and I just found each other in The Secret World completely by accident, and it is good! I'm wondering if anyone else has made the jump there? I'm on Arcadia as Popclaw and Rockskin, if any of you are established there!))
((Lacking anything meaningful to contribute to the conversation about TSW, I have to say: Don't apologise for asking OOC questions! There is nothing wrong with breaking character when it's the best way to convey information!))
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Wednesday 10 October, 2012 at 07:57
What is the last thing you Googled?
00x3879BCX. It's a DNS error, spare yourself.
pressdotexe
responded to WhiteShader
on Wednesday 10 October, 2012 at 07:58
Landed in London Heathrow Airport not too long ago. I'm not sure if I like it here yet. Question: Is there a city or other place in the world that you never thought you'd find yourself in? And how did you like/dislike it?
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be sure whether or not you liked blowjobs. And yeah, most of them.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 10 October, 2012 at 08:00
Do you know how to play any instruments?
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 10 October, 2012 at 08:01
What's your favorite type of monster?
My favourite kind of monsters are those in videogames. They are much more contained, and usually more defeatable, or at least, understandable. Even monsters that operate completely randomly have some element to them that can be understood. Those are the kind of monsters that it's easiest to appreciate; sometimes they are remarkably scary and creepy despite that. But if you understand how games work, you usually get to know how those monsters work.
Knowing how other monsters work - understanding how they behave - is more disquieting.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 10 October, 2012 at 08:08
What makes a monster?
Abuse.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 10 October, 2012 at 08:14
What is one (or a few) of your favorite games? Why?
Fallout - Enormous depth of play, wonderfully sticking to its themes, didn't try to get cute with anything to enable its story. Hard because it's meant to be. Planescape Torment - Best-written PC game ever made. System Shock 2 - First great use of fps cinematics without removing control of the player. Every good thing Half Life 2 did, System Shock 2 did first, including scaring the shit out of you. Quest For Glory 4 - Fantastic voice acting, wonderfully anarchic sense of humour, and great character overwhelmed somewhat plain and mediocre RPG mechanics. Dungeon Keeper - Unique in the twist it took on a genre, while now 'the bad guy' is pretty much du jour. Played with its own genre really well. Total Annihilation - HUGELY moddable, and a game ahead of its time in the scope it could handle. Beyond Good And Evil - The Ocarina of Time that wasn't made by Nintendo. Prince of Persia, Sands of Time - The first time 3d and platforming were put together well. Metroid Fusion - Handheld is the way to experience this whole genre.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Tuesday 16 October, 2012 at 06:58
Could you eat the same thing every day?
Nutripaste.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 16 October, 2012 at 06:58
Ever met anyone famous?
I've met you.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 16 October, 2012 at 06:58
How prepared are you for your fantasy to come true?
I'm not one of those 'Zombie Apocalypse Survivor Kit' guys.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 16 October, 2012 at 06:59
What's the last thing you saw that awed you?
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Saturday 20 October, 2012 at 01:54
What's your favorite useless fact?
Your androgynous state required your body to stop being female.
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Monday 22 October, 2012 at 05:58
Tell me about: The last thing you reached for in a very dark place.
Someone's butt.
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Monday 22 October, 2012 at 06:01
You are beaten, your opponent is set to fulfill his wishes, and is holding the ones you care about hostage. You are exhausted, and close to expired. Speculate on the most important thought that is going through your head, right then.
Oh, that poor man.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Wednesday 24 October, 2012 at 05:34
Do you like reality TV?
Reality TV is Andy Warhol's worst fever dreams given sinew. It's something that makes marketers and producers happy, because it's cheap, and skill-less to create. It teaches people that our interactions are fundamentally nasty, antisocial, and horrible, and the skill-set required to strip away the humanity of the hours of footage and create an hour or two of 'entertainment' for shallow, vapid, witless assholes is the sort of bitter, spiteful manipulative behavior that a good society would beat out of us as we grow up. Reality TV is to peer in the ear of the bitchiest of cheerleaders, the most manipulative and shallow of private-school beamer-driving backpfeifengesichts, and to see what they would do with their own personal human ant-farm.
Television as a form of art creates within itself a little pocket universe, a beautiful place in which you can tell stories, expose art, inform, educate and document the world. Reality TV takes that ideal, that hope, and uses it in the most cheap, banal way possible. Due to its low cost, though, Reality TV spreads across the airwaves, being made and remade, shared and reused, succeeding thanks to novelty and because those low costs give it a low threshold to meet. Instead, it prostitutes these ideals of art and education, hours upon hours of finding 'real' people at their absolute worst. Remember, this is the sort of show where they purport 'real' stories, but when Jade Goody was diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer, the ratings dipped.
I guess what I'm saying is, no, I don't like reality TV, and any human being that does should look at himself and realise that he or she is supporting one of the worst elements of human culture. In the far future, people will look back on reality TV the same way that we modern folk look back on the lead in the pipes of Rome, wondering just how we managed to consider ourselves a modern society.
Reality TV takes three things that should be meaningful - human interaction, television, and a way to talk to millions of people - and uses it in the cheapest, most venal way, and we, as a culture, should be ashamed and embarassed that it's something to which people aspire.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Thursday 25 October, 2012 at 06:17
If something kept you from handling a crisis situation, who would you trust to handle it for you?
Classified. The Crisis situations I have are ones where there aren't many people who can do what I do. Thankfully, all the people who are back-up for me are quite, quite good at what they do.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Thursday 25 October, 2012 at 06:17
Who do you think you should show more appreciation towards?
Everyone? I don't know. It's very hard when you have a stutter to even get through 'thank you.'
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Saturday 27 October, 2012 at 01:45
Some times the world looks perfect, nothing to rearrange, but do you ever just get a feeling like you need some kind of change?
pressdotexe
responded to Withoutle
on Thursday 1 November, 2012 at 04:46
When loving hurts, do you love?
I didn't, for a while there. It's very, very hard to get over the worst things.
pressdotexe
responded to Withoutle
on Thursday 1 November, 2012 at 04:46
Did you ever expect to be what you are?
I expected to be a statistic.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Friday 2 November, 2012 at 04:54
What's the most idiotic thing you've encountered due to your work that you can share with us?
A currency system based on burnt DVDs.
People started counterfeiting the DVDs by just writing on blanks.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Saturday 3 November, 2012 at 01:19
What expression do you use a lot?
You're welcome! =D
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 4 November, 2012 at 01:15
You two dating, or what?
What?
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Sunday 4 November, 2012 at 02:11
What three songs have you been listening to most lately?
I've been out of city for almost a month. Lots of time to sit and listen to music and stories. Relistened to most of my Lovecraft collection. Saxon's posted back in Paragon at the moment so mostly I've been asking him to keep an eye on people I care about, which apparnetly involves flirting with Kazeno's neighbours.
One of my best friends lost one of her best friends. Another of mine is so busy she can't get anything done but worry, and I don't know if I'll be around when she's able to do her last combat operation and sign out for the last time. Apparently one of my sisters is working on making me an uncle.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Sunday 4 November, 2012 at 03:22
How do you make your friends laugh?
Try to tell them things.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 6 November, 2012 at 08:06
Why are you so quiet?
Because nobody seems to be answering questions except you and Zex. If I asked a lot of questions, only a few answers trickle in. It's okay, though, websites rise and dip in their use and widespread popularity.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Wednesday 7 November, 2012 at 05:20
Do you have big feet?
Yes.
pressdotexe
responded to MazzoGrave
on Thursday 8 November, 2012 at 04:38
Everyone's gone.
Every time I patrol the city it seems like there's less and less meta's defending or attacking it. If there's anyone still in town say something, I'm starting to get a little paranoid.
Some statistics for you based on a quick search and q3 2010 vs 2012.
* Kings Row violent crime arrest down to 12%. That is not down BY 12%, down TO 12%. * Arcane signature of Tsoo (at least one active Tsoo member actively using magic) in all non-Astoria regions of the City have dropped from an uptime of 22 hours a day to 3. * Super Hurricanes hitting coasts in 2011 vs 2012: An increase by over 1,000%. * Longbow Ops Rec.Attrition rating (number of longbow recruits lost in their first three months of service to injury or quitting) has dropped from 28% to 3%. * Arachnos operant penetration has limited access to Peregrine and Faultline. * There are 28% fewer Bane Spiders. * There has been a 87%!!!!! reduction in Potential Recruits for the Night Widow program * Police force recruitment in St Martial is up 22%. That's not so exciting, but still. * Voter turnout for the Mercy Island mayoral project was estimated at 33% of the island's population. * 16 new schools opened in 2010 in Sharkhead and Nerva. 6 of them remain open. * Crey technologies have lost almost 13 laboratories to Longbow attrition actions on the Nerva Archipelago. * The infant mortality rate in Nerva has dropped down to just over sixty per 1,000 live births. That is comparable to INDONESIA. * Hero Corps have reported an 11% growth in that period, indicating that the marked downturn in crime is NOT a byproduct of increased policing.
You're going to see the worst of it because you're always looking for the worst of it. But if you wanna know why you don't see as many capse on the street in Paragon right now, it's because after a mere seventy years of fighting it, organised crime and villainy has had its back broken over the past six or seven years in Paragon City. There's a reason the Centre and the heads of the Family never stick their necks out - they know that it is simply put, too risky.
Oh, and by the way, there are people you've spoken to directly who are responsible for some of these statistics - you can chart and correlate them to one another. Hell, you might even have had an impact you don't realise. Ever hit towers in Grandville as part of some other scheme, or attacked arbiters in Grandville proper? Chances are, you've had a direct impact on the Bane Spider network integrity.
You're welcome.
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Thursday 8 November, 2012 at 04:39
Share with me a particular moment, when something important in your life ceased to matter.
It's going to matter as long as I exist. Just because it only matters to me is no excuse to pretend I didn't care.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Thursday 8 November, 2012 at 04:39
Have you ever built a snowman?
Backbeat and I made one last year that she put snow-abs on using poptarts.
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Thursday 8 November, 2012 at 04:40
((It's really lovely that you care enough to dovetail in story elements that may have been forgotten. Thanks for sharing.))
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Friday 9 November, 2012 at 05:50
What word always deserves an explanation point after it?!
You're a moron.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Saturday 10 November, 2012 at 01:50
If that happens again, how would you prefer I introduce you to acquaintances?
It was fine. I was on the way away anyway, your friend just arrived at an awkward moment. It was nice of them to say I was cute, but I wasn't particularly likely to react well to that kind of attention from strangers, anyway.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Saturday 10 November, 2012 at 01:50
Any luck with the problem that was troubling you a few weeks ago?
I was looking to hire someone to look into the location of the servers, but that's been very challenging.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Saturday 10 November, 2012 at 01:58
How respected is your opinion in your community?
If we're talking about the internet, I tend to kill discussions by speaking. People don't tend to like arguing with me.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Saturday 10 November, 2012 at 07:21
Do you floss?
This is funny if you know what the SASR mean when they say that.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 12 November, 2012 at 02:04
What are your thoughts on World of Warcraft?
She's like, three feet too short for that.
It's a good game, probably the best game in its genre. It has an amazing development team and a truly enormous ability to pull people in with its marketing. It manages this with a consistant mocking tone and a lighthearted semi-epic style of design.
On the other hand, if you're not looking for its genre, there's nothing to recommend it. The writing is, generally, quite bad. It shotguns video game and TV references at you in place of being genuinely lighthearted or funny; the mechanics are all designed to handle a large amount of lag, which means you get the feeling your characters are unreal pillow-piles of gingerbread waddling into other things. The PVP system is a nightmare to balance, which is why it's pretty much not balanced, and constantly updating that mobile curve with interdependent pieces eats up development time like a black hole. You can't make good decisions with ten million people providing feedback, and that means you have to instead get by with making good enough decisions.
It's a good game. If you have friends who want to play it, it's pretty fun to play with them, like playing soccer with your friends. But there's nothing about the game as a game that's that worthwhile - nothing that isn't done elsewhere, better.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 12 November, 2012 at 02:35
Is there a song that you just really want to share?
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 12 November, 2012 at 04:22
What makes you lie?
CS formulation, information containment, and embarassment. I know better than to lie about myself, though. That's just asking to get completely wrecked later. Plus I live with such fantastic people that I don't imagine it'd have any impact.
"Hey, Saxon, did you know once I met Judas Iscariot?" "What, great-grandpa? Is he an arse?"
It doesn't have a lot of impact.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 12 November, 2012 at 04:23
How are you?
Until I have an isolation for the press.exe servers, I'm a technical security risk, meaning that most of my work is operations. We've been using contractors for CS formulation and Communications, which just bothers me because I know they're going to change things I want to be Just So.
So I've been sitting at home and playing as many games as I can and trying to not explode.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 12 November, 2012 at 04:23
Why do you fight?
I don't know how not to.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 12 November, 2012 at 04:23
What do you think of uniforms?
They're comforting.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Monday 12 November, 2012 at 04:24
What kind of prints do you want?
First edition.
pressdotexe
responded to prodhigh486
on Tuesday 13 November, 2012 at 04:08
Can you get to level 1 in this game? - http://travian-online-de.blogspot.com ?
Guess what kind of advertising I never follow?
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Tuesday 13 November, 2012 at 05:37
Let's say you've been asked to help design a uniform for a new branch of the FBSA that's more focused on direct action. What do you think should absolutely be included?
A red-and-white outfit design that makes them stand out in crowd and draw fire away from civilian targets.
Oh wait.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 13 November, 2012 at 06:39
What sort of questions do you enjoy answering the most, or topics you enjoy discussing? If there is no universal answer, what about just -lately-?
Golden age of PC gaming, the Dreamcast, the inevitable failure of the XBox, Peter Molydeux, Luxembourg, Satellite technology, what games are interesting you and exciting you lately, what games you're interested in and want to know what I think about them, how games can be used to improve our lives, apples. Just off the top of my head.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Tuesday 13 November, 2012 at 07:24
Thanks for the talk last night! Here's something that'll hopefully make your day a little less stressful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxTsZr6cNv0
c: Thanks!
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Tuesday 13 November, 2012 at 07:59
Why Luxembourg?
Why not Luxembourg?
Luxembourg is a tax haven for Transeuropean corporate entities. It has the highest GDP in the world because multibillion dollar industries technically 'live' there.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 13 November, 2012 at 08:26
What defined the golden age of PC gaming?
I think the main thing that kicked it off was the release of QuakeC and the subsequent infrastructure that started with DWANGO resulting in a flocking to the internet. Internet compatibility meant that modding communities could turbocharge games' content releases, and that meant initial crowdsourcing worked towards the improvement and debugging of games. The idea of releasing games that mandated day-one patches wasn't yet real; PC games couldn't compete with dedicated graphics hardware like the PS1 and n64 could do, and they didn't have a standard computer to design for, meaning that games had to excel based on things that stripped the game of all of its visual trappings.
Consider Hexen and Heretic 2 are both games by Raven Software that only existed because the previous engine was released to them. Multiple mapmakers for Quake became developers of the next set of games. System Shock 2 came out. Thief came out. Genres that had taken their first faltering steps started to explode. You got a lot of bad games - but you also got a lot of amazing games. The industry was big enough that people were able to make big games with big values, but not so big that investors and publishers oversaw everything the way AAA titles are handled now.
Also, it was pre-Halo, so FPSes behaved in the way that I like, and not in the way they behave now.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 13 November, 2012 at 08:28
What do you think about Peter Molyneux?
I admire his craziness. I'm stunned he seems to know so little about what's involved in actually making games. His reaction to the tech issues on Curiosity appears to be, simply put, "my solution is for it all to work perfectly already."
He's also responsible for #PeterMolydeux, which is awesome ridiculousness.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 13 November, 2012 at 08:28
What do you think about Peter Molydeux?
Oh, I should have checked my other answers.
I think that by pretending to be a lunatic, a talented designer has freed himself to express ideas that simply never would get mentioned in any other medium.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 13 November, 2012 at 08:28
What do you think is inside The Cube?
Who gives a fuck?
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 13 November, 2012 at 08:30
Why are you interested in apples?
Apples mutate so quickly that if you planted a Granny Smith apple tree, the seeds those apples would grow would not, in fact, be Granny Smiths. The only way to sustain a breed of apples is with cuttings - meaning that most apple groves are in fact massive waves of cloned brothers and sisters next to one another. They carry poisons in them in minute amounts. They vary in texture and flavour and excel in areas because of this since things like digestion speed relates to how far the seeds can be brought from their source.
It's an interesting plant!
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Tuesday 13 November, 2012 at 08:33
So do you have to go there a lot or do the companies there cause a lot of problems for you?
The globalisation issue causes problems for me. It's also not part of the countries that, by default, understand what I do and accept it. There are a lot of corrupt jerks there, in the same way America's the center for companies that don't need subsidies but get them anyway.
It's also very pretty to visit!
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Tuesday 13 November, 2012 at 10:30
Have you ever had to sneak inside of a fortress of some kind? Did you stay undetected for as long as you needed to? How did you do it?
A lot of these are classified. But the best way to be stealthy is to know how people look at things, then look at them differently. Vents are usually a bad idea.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Wednesday 14 November, 2012 at 05:22
Why were you evil and what made you stop?
Whatever I am, it's down in the bone and my life is containment.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 14 November, 2012 at 05:55
How are a few ways games could be used to improve our lives?
Games are useful for security. People who are used to using computer interfaces get more natural with their operation, which can make the input of letters and digits more easy. On a higher level, it's possible to design games that are themselves security locks, and the player's individual habits are the real key. These are basically unbreakable codes - the player doesn't even know what it is they do that makes their player behaviour 'them.'
Games are useful for interaction. Numerous videogames successfully bring people together. I know people who are married thanks to videogames. They let us look at our worst elements, too - the Xbox live mouthbreathers self-contain themselves, and thanks to their existence, there's a real movement in the rest of the culture to purge that worst element from ourselves.
Games are useful for massively incentivizing the seemingly-impossible. fold.it was able to take a problem that computers hadn't been able to brute-force in thirty years and solve it in less than three months. Gamers think about problems in a totally different way.
Games are useful for rewiring your own brain. Starcraft 2 pros are able to mentally operate in parallel - something that neurologists believed to be literally impossible. When you think you're working on two things at once, usually you're just queuing the two together - A then B then A then B. These guys are doing AB all the time.
Games are unique over music, books, dance and theatre because it's the only type of art that gates its meaning and resolution. If you're a third of the way through Paper Towns, the book doesn't suddenly turn to a blank page that asks you to explain the central themes and ideas of the story so far, the way the characters express themselves, or what the greater story is directing you to think about, before it will let you read on. Games do do that. In this way, we can reward understanding.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Wednesday 14 November, 2012 at 07:22
What's a problem that you see in the 'super' community which you don't think gets brought up enough?
Supers generally aren't happy doing the job they signed on to do.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Wednesday 14 November, 2012 at 09:50
What's the most glaring error you've ever seen a hero make?
It's an interesting topic to bring up but I don't think I'll answer these. Publically marking people's mistakes seems to be a way to make those mistakes more exploitable and embarass someone who's trying to do good. I'll let people know in private though.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Thursday 15 November, 2012 at 09:07
To word that last question better, what's been the highlight of your career so far?
So classified that I know two people who can know about it.
pressdotexe
responded to Withoutle
on Thursday 15 November, 2012 at 09:16
What is your image?
It's a digital piece of artwork representing a neuron.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Friday 16 November, 2012 at 09:23
What's your favorite euphemism for "having sex"?
████
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Friday 16 November, 2012 at 09:23
What's your favorite euphemism for "kill"?
████
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Friday 16 November, 2012 at 09:23
What's your favorite euphemism for "steal"?
████
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Friday 16 November, 2012 at 09:23
What's a mundane inconvenience you wish your powers or training helped you with?
F-ff-f-face to f-ff-fffface c-communication.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Friday 16 November, 2012 at 05:19
Are you well?
I'm okay. Thanks for asking. I hope you're enjoying yourself, too.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Sunday 18 November, 2012 at 08:04
Do you still have anything from your childhood?
Not really, no.
I think it's just a byproduct of not having a lot, and having gone through some major lifestyle changes. You don't exactly get to bring teddy bears with you into prison.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Sunday 18 November, 2012 at 11:40
What's the worst you could do?
I'm listed in classified and classified as infinite lethal non-meta CS.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 18 November, 2012 at 11:40
What's beneath your notice?
Just because someone else is handling it, doesn't mean we're not paying attention.
pressdotexe
responded to Withoutle
on Sunday 18 November, 2012 at 11:41
Well, how do you feel about someone else speaking for you?
I have a stutter.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 18 November, 2012 at 11:42
What's beneath my notice?
People's opinion of how creepy it is that one person can do what you can?
pressdotexe
responded to TheChthonian
on Monday 19 November, 2012 at 03:23
In a survival situation, what position would you be most comfortable with: The leader, or the warchief?
The basic campfire.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 21 November, 2012 at 04:42
What's a game you like that you think Lock should play?
Halo 4 or CoDBlOps2.
He should see all the parts of the culture. He should see what mass marketing and huge businesses can do to a creative endeavour. He should play something competitive. I think all of these things will teach him something he didn't really realise.
pressdotexe
responded to Withoutle
on Wednesday 21 November, 2012 at 05:04
Who embodies 'the noble leader' to you?
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 21 November, 2012 at 08:17
What's the most powerful weapon you know of?
Oh SO classified. =D
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Friday 23 November, 2012 at 07:21
If you could have gotten to where you are today without certain things happening along the way, what would you cut out?
With the postulate that I'd be the same person and with the same life and the same things about which I'm happy, I'd cut out the murders, enlisting and failing, the prison time, and having my town's prison system bought by a corporation.
I can't imagine any way in which I get here without those things, though.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Friday 23 November, 2012 at 07:21
What are you thankful for today?
I should have bullied the rest of the guys into doing something for Thanksgiving.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Saturday 24 November, 2012 at 07:10
How would you complete this sentence? "It's weird when they--"
Don't ragequit.
pressdotexe
responded to Withoutle
on Saturday 24 November, 2012 at 03:38
Following Stheras' question, what if you WERE you, back then, without the flaw that put you on this path. What would you tell yourself? What information would you send back to the you to keep them from getting it all wrong in a new way?
The thing I’d tell the me in that situation, without the flaw, is that you’re not special. You’re not exceptional. You’re a statistical normalcy. You will go through your life and experience what everyone else does; you’ll probably break a bone; probably advance your economic station nothing at all; probably want to write a book, but never do it. Probably get married once, maybe get married twice, and the second one is the one that’ll make you happy. You will probably want to travel overseas, but won’t. You will probably give up on your dreams at age thirty-two point five. You will also be hurt; hurt harder than you ever imagined you could bear; you will be hurt by something so bad it’ll make you do something stupid, and you will look back at whatever it was that hurt you last time and wonder how you even vaguely cared about that. And you will experience that over and over again, and every time, you will wonder about the previous thing, because nothing lasts of pain. Nothing truly lasts. Not even its memory - you hang onto the memory of a memory of pain, and that’s what tells you that the thing you’re hurting about is whatever mattered.
Everything you love will end. Some day, you’re going to lose someone by something unreasonable. They won’t die; they’ll be killed, whether it’s by cancer or an accident or someone who should know better. But usually, it’ll be something that can’t be punished, something that can’t be hurt to make it right.
And this is being alive.
It’s the only game in town.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Saturday 24 November, 2012 at 03:40
Would you eat snails?
Calories are calories.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Saturday 24 November, 2012 at 03:41
What are you procrastinating doing right now?
A checkup with the doctor.
pressdotexe
responded to Withoutle
on Sunday 25 November, 2012 at 03:09
Did you work Firday?
Yeah.
pressdotexe
responded to Withoutle
on Sunday 25 November, 2012 at 03:10
Alright, few days out now, what'd you do for Thanksgiving?
Little bit classified. My parents are out of the country, my sister had to run her bar, and I had to work. Plus all the philistines at work were like 'pfft, Thanksgiving is a made up holiday.' When we got off work, I understand Saxon went to a Longbow potluck and Martel was cruising. I went home and played Torchlight with Abbey.
pressdotexe
responded to Withoutle
on Sunday 25 November, 2012 at 08:23
What're you thinking over right now? Tell us about it.
It's been four years since I started on this path.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Sunday 25 November, 2012 at 07:25
Do you eat your vegetables?
You can't make me.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Sunday 25 November, 2012 at 07:25
What’s been on your mind most lately?
What's not on my mind at all any more.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Sunday 25 November, 2012 at 07:25
Which activities make you lose track of time?
Nothing. To call my sense of the passage of time heightened is reasonable.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Tuesday 27 November, 2012 at 03:42
What do you see when you look to your left?
You're not cleared for that, Formspring.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Tuesday 27 November, 2012 at 03:45
Ever watched a movie that was supposed to be serious but you found it to be more a comedy?
Had a friend get me to watch 2012 and I found it so ridiculous that I was snickering the whole time. (Which got me smacked a few times...)
If you believe James Bond might actually exist, you think the British Government is a pack of gibbering sociopaths.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 27 November, 2012 at 03:47
How did you find facing Lock was? What games did you play?
We just played a few games. Street Fighter, Halo 4, Brotherhood. The same problems happened from game to game, and there really isn't a game that exists that I don't know better than him.
By and large, he's good, but he's not used to being good at things. He's used to being awful at things and great at things. So he could get frustrated easily, even when I wasn't trash-talking or being mean. He also hates being manipulated like that, so whenever I noticed it, he'd notice it and he'd just wind up being crankier and crankier.
Also, he overcompensates when he uses his left hand; if you force him on the back-step (for example) in Street Fighter, and he moves towards the left side of the screen, he'll overestimate distances by about 12-50%, which means wasted hits and unnecessary errors.
He's quite nice, and it was relatively fun, but I don't imagine he enjoyed himself a lot. I can try with handicaps on in the future.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Tuesday 27 November, 2012 at 03:48
What makes you flinch? I recently discovered that seeing electrical sparks will do this to me, possibly an after effect of having been tasered.
I understand a flinch is an involuntary muscular spasm, in which case, a lot of personal space invasion will do it for me.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Tuesday 27 November, 2012 at 07:37
(( Alright I set up an acct for my fire mage/biker chick. @StormFurie should work for her. =D Follow if you like! Oh and bonus art! ))
((This reminds me of heterosexuality.))
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 27 November, 2012 at 08:28
((Since we're all sharing, here's my final big piece of writing for City of Heroes. There's a lot to be said; not much that can be in this space. It's draft quality - no editor - and highly self-serving.))
((Also, as a warning, this fucker is long - 91 pages long, 44 characters. If you find yourself unable to give a fuck about things but want to see specific character pieces, there's a table of contents down the bottom because I'm artsy like that.))
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Tuesday 27 November, 2012 at 08:33
Ever taken a leap of faith? How'd it work out?
No.
Faith is trust in things unproven.
I have NEVER had any faith in my team, or my friends.
Доверяй, но проверяй.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Wednesday 28 November, 2012 at 05:05
What confuses you?
P=NP
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Wednesday 28 November, 2012 at 05:06
I've been feeling kind of reflective today so I have been hitting profile shuffle and reading my old answers and realizing how much my life has changed this year. What will define 2012 for you the most?
Classified stuff.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 28 November, 2012 at 05:07
What do you think of the model Bryci?
She shouldn't wear a flat fringe, it makes her look a bit stupid. Her outfit choices are often pretty dumb, and the fake enthusiasm she has for sex toys is really offputting. On the other hand, she's really quite attractive.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 28 November, 2012 at 05:12
Why are Bryrci's outfits dumb?
Well, they're not clothes she's wearing, they're props for the strip show. It makes them look really artificial. Fake outfits are part of what make stage strip shows so awkward - in the context where she has control over things like she does, she should be able to do better.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 28 November, 2012 at 05:13
What do you believe in?
Proven things.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 28 November, 2012 at 05:13
What do you consider real strength?
The strength to not act.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Wednesday 28 November, 2012 at 05:15
When faced with an important decision do you tend to go with your gut or logic?
Your gut cannot make decisions.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Wednesday 28 November, 2012 at 06:22
(( Well since I am using it as my profile pic I figured I should share the whole piece! Art is my imagesbyalex. Great guy, easy going, fantastic to work with and talented! ))
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Thursday 29 November, 2012 at 04:46
What was the best day of your life?
It changes as the standards shift. I thought the day I enlisted was pretty good. Then there was the day I was tapped for the marines. Then the day I got out of prison. Then there was the day I met Saxon. Who knows what the next best day will be.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Thursday 29 November, 2012 at 04:49
What was the best thing about your Thanksgiving dinner?
I'm thinking I should have infiltrated someone else's Thanksgiving dinner, see if they noticed me.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Thursday 29 November, 2012 at 04:50
So, assuming people will be busy over Christmas and the New Year: What're you expecting in the next month?
The world does not turn on the Western calendar. There's a billion people in Indonesia with stuff that needs doing.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Friday 30 November, 2012 at 04:24
Is there a tradition you follow but wish didn't exist? If so, what is it?
The necessity of violence for the preservation of peace.
pressdotexe
responded to shrikespikes
on Saturday 1 December, 2012 at 04:26
((End of a game, end of a series - post your favourite "ending" music tracks.))
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 1 December, 2012 at 04:29
How do you deal with a setback?
These days by calling for backup.
I never used to need to do that.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 1 December, 2012 at 04:29
What's the biggest duck you've ever seen?
Lock, go home, you're drunk.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 1 December, 2012 at 04:33
How secure is your workplace?
Classified.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 1 December, 2012 at 04:33
Who wouldn't you bother to help?
You really think anyone's going to answer this?
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 1 December, 2012 at 04:35
How well do you pursue what you want?
I kinda draw on the ground with my toe a lot.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 1 December, 2012 at 04:37
Why do you tolerate the worst of your friends?
Downplay's not that bad, he's just grumpy.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Saturday 1 December, 2012 at 04:46
Does it snow where you live?
I live on a sub.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 1 December, 2012 at 04:48
Do you think you'd get along with an exact copy of yourself?
No.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 1 December, 2012 at 04:48
A lot of people are against body modification for cosmetic purposes. What is your stance on this?
It's not my body, I shouldn't care.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 1 December, 2012 at 04:48
Do you put much stock/faith in dreams?
No.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 1 December, 2012 at 04:49
What are your three best qualities?
I try to be thoughtful, I'm kinda cute and I like to share.
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 04:33
Follow up to one of Zex's questions. Who's invited to your ideal party?
A good tank, two deeps that know how to interrupt and given how easy the mop dungeons are, a ret pally or elemental shaman for heals.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 05:05
What is the worst gift you have ever received?
When my father found out I existed, he put together a package of presents for every year of my life from age 1-21, at which point the gifts became a ten dollar bill and a packet of socks. One of the gifts was a book on speech therapy, for year 15. The same book again was 17. He claimed it's because he would have forgotten getting me the book when I was 15.
Bear in mind, that for her 17th birthday, Backbeat got a CAR.
pressdotexe
responded to BackAlleyBeats
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 05:11
[[ I didn't want to be in the crowd this time. ]]
((I have seen the starlight fading into echoes on the floor))
pressdotexe
responded to Stheras
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 05:12
(( )))
((Oh well.
Onwards.))
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 05:14
What would you do if you very suddenly got a incomprehensibly large amount of money?
In order to be incomprehensibly large, based on my current mental ability, it would need to be roughly sixteen times the amount of money that exists in the world, or roughly the current market value of mars.
So I'd buy mars.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 05:18
If you could know the answer to any practical question (No "meaning of life" bullshit), what would it be?
How do you resolve p=np?
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 05:20
If you were omnipotent for a day, what would you do? Any supernatural effects you put in place do not persist beyond 24 hours. You cannot change this.
I'd make everyone able to understand every language. Even hiphop.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 05:21
If you were FORCED to change your name, what would you change it to?
Swivel.
I was.
I don't understand why you asked this question.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 07:09
What relaxes you?
The sound of the engines of the Tzu.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 08:09
Do you save?
It used to mean something.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 08:13
What would your autobiography be titled?
01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 08:15
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 08:17
((What's something someone else was going to do that you were looking forward to?))
((Anise Kanako (if that's the right surname), descendent of Zex and Lock. Of course, given the way I like storytelling and wanted the game to handle things in-game, there was almost on window for that to happen, but it still is a kickass idea and I like the glimpses of it I get.))
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 08:18
When someone says 'We're heading to the park,' what park do you think they mean?
It means they're going to go have sex with Honeytrap.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 2 December, 2012 at 04:57
Are you well? I am concerned for you.
I'm really quite well. I would still like to find the press servers' locations, just for the data they have stored, but I believe that my physical and mental well-being is improving.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Monday 3 December, 2012 at 05:06
Do you ever think you would like to take a vacation somewhere besides at home?
Probably not. I go all around the world for work, all the time. I can look out the window and through a satellite see amazing things. None of it seems to be so important as feeling comfortable and happy.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:27
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:27
What is the hardest thing you've done?
Classified. Hardest non-classified thing was not react when I was handcuffed for transfer between cells.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:28
If you could pick anyone as a mentor, who would it be? (if anyone. If no one: why?)
You. You have a lot of the same disciplines as I do, and that means when I clean your clock, it's just the natural byproduct of your excellent tutelage.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:28
How many people would you invite to your ideal party?
Like, two or four.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:30
If you could throw any kind of party, what would it be?
This had REALLY good multiplayer. So like, this, with a few of the TVs hooked up to systems so we could have two players sharing a screen per.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:32
What is one thing you would like to learn to do?
Talk to girls. I don't exactly want to be single forever.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:33
What is your favorite body part?
I don't have a single favourite. I like a mix of bits.
If we're talking mine, I think my hair's nice.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:33
Why do people like scary movies?
Because they're weird.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:34
What are three qualities you would like for your ideal partner to possess?
I cannot believe anyone already used ontological certainty. I feel really shallow saying it, but cleavage, a technical mind, and patience.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:35
What's the biggest hit you've taken?
Classified. There's a grey-classified instance where Kazeno hit me with a crane, but I think it's classified to her end because of classified and the classified.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:35
Do you have a favorite quote? (You can pick a few if not)
"Sick of bringing guns to knife-fights."
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:35
What was the first time (you remember) being really really excited?
I don't know the exact date, but I know that I hid the evidence and it came out in my confession years later.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:36
What is the most recent thing you remember that made you really really excited?
@swiftgear left her phone on.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:38
Why should we listen to you, considering what you've done?
You really shouldn't. There's nothing I have to say that's not verifiable from some other source; there are professional gamers who know games better than I do, better political pundits and better science informers (Nye and Tyson are both pretty approachable). There's nothing I have to say that's unique, and therefore, nothing that needs to stand up in light of who I am. But I suppose at the same time, I don't put myself forwards as a decision maker, policy setter, or worse, moral paragon. I don't spit on the faces of the people who criticise me. I don't act like somehow my decision to make good has absolved me from criticism.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:38
New hero in the city, steps out of City Hall, and you're tasked with offerin them some advice. What do you tell them?
Double-check your spelling of questions, particularly words that end with G.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:38
In the future, the only constant will be...?
Gravity.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:39
Who should be forgotten?
Whoever masterminded Longbow's Operation Pressurise. He should be allowed to retire and hide himself under a blanket.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:40
Your mask hides...?
Where I'm looking, my breathing pattern, my complexion, the way I'm going 'AAAAAAH' and my humanity. It makes me scarier.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:40
Who will be remembered?
Honeytrap's crack team of hunks! Some of whom have Longbow files now, I think, though mostly for public drunkenness.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:40
When you stand, you stand with...?
The people you never have to thank.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:42
The heart of Paragon City is in...?
Its hospitals. A city like Paragon could not exist without the cutting edge medical tech it has. It called businesses to its amazing infrastructure. It created a new industry. It sped up the idea of teleportation for domestic purposes. It fought back the workings of cancer, it worked on synthesising together men and machine, it defied death and in so doing it let the rest of the city grow and thrive around it. Paragon City's heart is an industry of medicine.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:42
When you fall, you fall with...?
My mind a mile away.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:42
What would you think if someone wants and accepts your help, but doesn't want anyone to know?
That would be most everyone.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:43
Nobody knows what you contribute; does it matter?
You can still use money to buy things, right? So, clearly something's going right.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:43
Your best friend is behaving irrationally. You suspect...?
iron tyrant.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:43
How many times do you see one of your idealistic answers and know you're lying?
Why the hell would I do that? To try and look cool? I think I blew my chances for that when I looked like I was censoring my language beyond that of Patch the Pirate's.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Tuesday 4 December, 2012 at 06:44
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 9 December, 2012 at 05:27
Is there anything bugging you that you'd feel better venting about? Go on if so.
Nah, I'm good.
pressdotexe
responded to Formspring
on Sunday 9 December, 2012 at 05:27
Do you know any good jokes?
Nah, I'm good.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Sunday 9 December, 2012 at 05:27
A while back I struggled with the idea of redemption. How do you define redemption? What would lead you to believe someone was sincere about trying to redeem themselves?
Nah, I'm good.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Sunday 9 December, 2012 at 05:27
Where do you spend most of your time while you’re awake?
Nah, I'm good.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Sunday 9 December, 2012 at 05:28
((If you signed the CoH petition and didn't dodge change.org's mailing list you probably already got this, but if not: http://www.change.org/petitions/citibank-and-barclays-condemn-uganda-s-kill-the-gays-bill ))
((This, by the way, is why you need to take your crazy right wing religious assholes seriously.))
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 9 December, 2012 at 05:28
Would you drink something called "Liquid Donut"?
Nah, I'm good.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 9 December, 2012 at 05:28
Do you like or dislike Christmas? Why?
Nah, I'm good.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Sunday 9 December, 2012 at 03:04
Can there be happiness without sadness? Pleasure without pain? Peace without war?
Yes, yes, and yes. Do I win something?
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:18
When are you back in town or on vacation or so such?
Just finished my pre-Christmas deploy. I'm taking two weeks off for non-emergency. So unless a nuclear ordinance goes missing (and that never happens hahahahaha) I'll be around over the whole break.
pressdotexe
responded to IamEvolved
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:21
What's a downside of the modern world? Upside?
Looks like everyone's kind of stomped on this one already.
pressdotexe
responded to ISpyThighHighs
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:21
Before they know for sure, how old do people assume you are?
If I have my shirt on, early 20s, late 20s otherwise.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:22
What's the last thing that pleasantly surprised you?
Finding 81 messages, holy shit.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:23
What's a fond memory that you have?
There was this one time in the Hollows where I was walking on my own, and accidentally got attention from a drug deal going down between some Trolls and some Outcasts. No deaths, but it surprised everyone. Was nice to feel I'd done some good.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:26
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:28
What do you hate?
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:29
What would you write in a letter to your future self?
Check the ring!
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:29
Have you ever done anything dumb in an attempt to impress someone? What was it, if so?
Nothing I've really any conscious memory of. I am sure there are times I looked like I was showing off, but usually it was a byproduct of looking at the world in a different way to most.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:29
How much do you plan?
c:<
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:30
Do you ever try to change someone's mind?
No, my work is usually done between specialists. We trust each other's judgment and cede to the immediate authority. We also know who is an expert, so we know who to listen to. If things are blowing up and we need to get out, for example, it's up to JUDAS to get us out.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:30
You ever forget that OTHER PEOPLE don't have powers?
No.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:30
How far ahead do you plan for gifts?
I have Christmas next year pre-ordered.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:31
Do you have a flag you respect?
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:31
How much harder do your powers make your life?
Not really. They made it a lot easier for the period I needed them.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:31
What's your favourite part of your hometown?
No matter what tries, it doesn't die. I can't imagine anything surviving what it's survived, but it has managed.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:32
How well do you trust your best friend to make decisions for you?
Organisation of specialists. Absolutely.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:33
When were you last kind to a stranger?
Most of the strangers I meet online or through work, so I tend not to be very kind. I offer advice to people I meet online, but they don't tend to like it.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:34
Who needs some help this Christmas period?
If you're asking for ideas, the foodbanks across the southern states have been bled pretty badly this year.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:36
What series can you think of that started out okay, but became great, instead of the other way around?
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:38
What timewaster can't you quit?
imgur.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:38
You and your best friend have a fight: Do you limit yourself?
Oh god I hope so
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:39
You and your best friend have an argument: What do you limit yourself to?
Short words and a minimum of 'sh' and 'th' sounds.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:39
Do you consider yourself part of a group?
Yes. A group that keeps the world stable and keeps the worst case scenarios that silly people like to talk about from ever happening.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:40
What passes through you and does not touch you?
Most of the subatomic particles in the world?
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:40
What did you last conquer inside yourself?
\>escape loop
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:40
What city do you know that needs help?
DETROIT FLINT ATLANTA
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:43
How many hard, unshakeable rules do you have?
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
(pff)
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:45
Dashing and daring, courageous and caring - which do you think describes you best?
Dashing, probably. In the context of moving quickly.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:45
Do you think there's anything to the idea of a proxy for punishment - a scapegoat or sacrifice?
Our society's pretty fucked up on the topic of punishment in general.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:46
What is surrender?
Thumbing the rest button on your pride.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:47
Just how deep do you have to be before you realise you're in over your head? Tell me about it.
What worries me is just how few incidents like this I can remember.
We're very good at our jobs.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:47
What is your greatest accomplishment so far?
l90 pacifist on a pvp server.
Wondering if I should do ironman.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:50
What's your drink of the season?
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:51
What gifts are you going to give? No spoilers, of course, don't spill about anyone who might read it.
Nice try. =D
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:52
Would you rather find something exciting that takes you to a new place, or something that comes to your home?
I have the internet in my ear and travel internationally for work.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:52
How late do you stay up during the holidays?
What is this 'sun.'
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:52
You happy with how short you are?
Sometimes I wish I was a little more Saxon-shaped, then I remember I can buy clothes off the rack in some places.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:53
You ever been comfortable in a closed space?
Take three large shoeboxes. Line them up. I've had to fit in that.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:53
Do you prefer to get a question answered (and therefore give it a short answer) or to provide information?
Right now I'm just chaingunning my inbox because WHEEEEEEE HOLIDAAAAYS.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:53
If you led a gang, what would your gang nickname be?
The Chairs.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:53
If you were a school, what would the sports team be called?
The Nobody Cares So Get Back To The Library
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:53
What's the longest you've ever been on hold?
Three years, six months and counting.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:54
How much respect do you have for your history?
My personal history is a bit of a mess, but I do find the history of the American continent really interesting. Like, even its name is weird.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:56
What kind of setbacks do you encounter in your work?
People bringing guns to knife-fights.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:56
How well do you feel you understand the systems you use?
I know my OSI stack model if that's what you're asking.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Saturday 15 December, 2012 at 11:59
What is the hottest thing with heels?
Until I read Ed Greenwood's opinion of her, Lady Aribeth.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 16 December, 2012 at 12:01
What do you call yourself when a videogame asks you for your name?
Depends on the game, of course.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 16 December, 2012 at 12:01
How hard have your youthful indescretions kicked you in the butt?
Um, Prison.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 16 December, 2012 at 12:02
Ever go caroling?
Gl-gl-gl-gl-gl-gl-glo-o-oglo-glo-o---r-ria in e-e-ee-ee-exc-exce-
Yeah, no.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 16 December, 2012 at 12:03
What is the coolest thing with wings?
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 16 December, 2012 at 12:07
What is the best thing with flippers?
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 16 December, 2012 at 12:07
Ever work on providing food over Christmas, or do you just eat it?
I have a celphone and don't mind Chinese food.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 16 December, 2012 at 12:07
Ever hurt yourself with a candy cane?
Funny story, but in classified, I actually classified a target with one.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 16 December, 2012 at 12:08
Who can ever say something to you without you doubting it?
Stephen Fry, Bill Nye, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Abbey.
Not Zex, though, she's a filthy liar.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 16 December, 2012 at 12:08
What's your opinion on game hunting?
God they make terrible video games.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 16 December, 2012 at 12:09
I can't wait to see the multi-year marketing campaign showing us the evolution Marcus Fenix went through as a vulnerable, heaving young man lost on the streets of Glasgow waiting for the inevitable leering from women in positions of power.
(that is to say why do we feel a need to make a story game all about taking one of the few unironically powerful women in gaming and making her weak. We should be past the refrigerator period of history. Seriously, Lollipop Chainsaw is more progressive than this.)
pressdotexe
responded to posthumanism
on Tuesday 18 December, 2012 at 09:38
anyone ever tell you that you have an odd way of walking? did they describe how?
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:35
Check out this photo and respond!
Me neither most of the time. This whole relationship thing scares the pus out of me and I keep looking at this gif every night and wonder if I'm doing the right thing. I'm terrified that the four years I spent waiting for you and telling every girl but you 'Well, no, I'm not in a relationship but-' is just time I spent constructing someone in my head and that I'm just fooling myself that you could be in love with me and this is just gratitude for being the first guy who's in your league when we gave you your eyes because Downplay's a jerk and Saxon is like James Bond crossed with Rob Roy. And so every night I boot this app up and I look at this prompt and I look at this question and I look at this picture and I fret to myself a little because you're so incredible and you've made me step out of all sorts of amazing boundaries with myself and oh god oh god oh god and then I delete the answer I write because I can't help but think of anything but I guess the fact that I love you and I hope that if I keep loving you and keep telling you it, even if I never actually press the respond button I'll be okay and it'll work because love manages and I... don't know what the fuck I am doing.
pressdotexe
responded to posthumanism
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:36
ever wish you had a tail?
Yeah, a lot of the time. I actually got a peripheral that did the trick, and even faked my senses to pretend I had a tail, to see how I liked it. But in the end, it's weird and offputting even if I find it cute.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:40
Tip much?
In some countries. In a few places it's actually really offensive to tip - it implies the person's boss is a dick who doesn't pay them enough, and that they're not smart enough to pick a good boss.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:42
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:43
I'm thinking of getting a new tattoo. On my wrist. What do you think?
I really don't know how to feel about it. I mean, I know I've seen your wrist a lot, but isn't your skin kind of new to you?
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:44
Your mother is ridiculously hot, but I'm kind of terrified of her. Is she as intimidating as she seems? What about your father?
Ever since I refound my family I have had to deal with the strangeness that they are all hotter than me. Brick is a hotter man than I am, my father is just incredibly intense and has this sort of thousand-mile stare that makes you think you're all he thinks of, my mother is a total bitch and she makes you like that, and then there's my younger sister who apparently could pass for Ancilla Tilia with fucking superpowers.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:47
If you could be any male from a game, who would you be? Female? Which male and female would you bang? Same answer? Why?
Pretty big and awkward question, with the latter clause. I mean, I guess I'd like to be Adam Jensen because I already identify with him a lot, particularly how he feels ilke he lives in a world dominated by corporate interests rather than any sense of nationali identity, and that's pretty much what Michigan is, but I don't like his hair and beard. Females it's even harder because a lot of of the best female characters like Samus are sensitive topics.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:47
I miss you. Not a question, but worth mentioning, I think!
Can't smile at this. :S
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:50
Love story or action story?
Yes.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:50
Terra or Celes?
Celes has a character. Terra's more of a cipher.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:50
Peach or Daisy?
Who?
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:50
Catwoman or Oracle?
Catwoman is a budget Felicia Hardy but Oracle is - weirdly - unique and really empowered.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:51
When choosing to speak of classified things, do you wish you were able to give more detail, or are you quite happy with the level of mystery that comes with it? Be hooonest.
I love the fact that I can say I classified Kazeno's classified with a classified classified and nobody has any idea if I'm being vulgar or just talking about tense mystery, or if what I'm saying is just me repeating the word 'classified' with a name.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:52
Rydia or Rosa?
Rydia, though they did a lot for Rosa in the NDS remake which is unironically awesome for anyone who liked FF4.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:52
Girl with a great smile or girl with a great laugh?
A great smile. That's laughter in light.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:52
Who do you find it easiest to talk to?
Farah.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:53
Is it more important to be intelligent in your actions or bold in your motions?
Bit close to the knuckle, isn't it? I'd say intelligent.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:54
When you think of a beautiful man or woman, what features do they have in your mind? This doesn't mean define beauty, but define beauty as it pertains to you.
Words. Words they've used and words they've said to me and words they've chosen to use at the right time. Like when Commander Martel said 'we' instead of 'you,' or when Saxon counter a suicide bomber amongst the dead during the attack or when you called the drone you made 'her.'
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:54
Have you ever been blind? Whether temporary or not. What was your experience?
Yes. Very classified.
Honeytrap tells me it was kinda sexy that I was all blindfolded for a whole op though.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:54
I'm going to send you a lot of questions, okay? It seems to work for other people and I want to try my hand at it with you.
Okay! Formspring glitched the hell out and my inbox looked empty.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:55
Do you ever worry people will forget about you as soon as you are not straight in their line of sight?
If I like them, I worry about it. If I don't like them, I count on it.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:55
Is Zex the coolest thing with no feet or am I just way too into her?
I understand there's a robot turtle in town, but yeah, Zex is totally B)
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 09:56
Pick a nickname for Zex. For me. For Lock. For Carcer. And for someone random in your life.
Zex. Abbey. Lock. Wait, why Carcer?
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 10:02
What do you think Samus is like, as a character?
A cipher as well-explored as BJ Blazkowicz. And she's meant to be. We get some very basic outlines but we're meant to be able to run wild within that. Underneath her armour, she's wearing a bikini so she might have a positive view of her own body, but at the same time that might be a requirement of how her armour works. She has some basic instincts to protect something that happens to be young, so you can project some maternal instincts onto her, but it could also be a simple competitive drive against Ridley.
Basically, she's a strange relic of a character in that she's an old character from a time before a character needed to be defined and before all the details of their backstory were documented and distributed and wiki'd up. Unlike Mario, who exists in the same specturm, though, her setting and games still are to be taken seriously, instead of say, going go-karting.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 10:05
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 10:06
Have you ever become part of a group in a non-traditional way? How?
Well, there was the time I joined an interational espionage and global stability initiative that operates out of a submarine by choking my drill sergeant to death.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 10:07
How are your personal debts, moneywise?
Zeroed and going in the other direction fast. I asked around and found that the same holds true for almost everyone I work with. I thought at first it was a side effect of our jobs, but then I spoke to Dorn and Cover a little and what they told me was that they never really accrued much personal debt before getting a job, and since they never bought a big purchase before they had the money for it - citing things like an expensive car or home - they never wound up in debt. I had a lot of debt and I worked it off, but that's a US thing, it seems.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 10:09
How is Samus one of the best characters, or one that you want to be like, when she is just a cipher?
It's a sad process of elimination. Most other female characters are written badly, and because videogames come from Japan, they are usually written badly by Japanese authors who mostly understand women are things that travel on the subway and occasionally notice when you try to touch their underpants.
There are very few characters I would want to be because I don't want to be a brassy centre of attention. I don't want to be the hot person everyone stares at and who jiggles for the camera. I don't want to feel like I need to push twice as hard to get half as much done and I don't want to feel like I matter less to people because I have a vagina.
It's a sad truth but being female, in my experience, is losing a genetic lottery because there really is no place in the world that doesn't treat you badly, and no amount of inspiring Beyonce marching tunes can actually change it.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 10:14
Do you ever talk back to the screen when you're on the Internet? If so, what are the most common words out of your mouth when you do?
No, I don't, but statistically that makes me the weirdo, not you.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 10:14
What was the best $5 you ever spent?
Gift copy of Bastian.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 10:14
Got pets?
I live in a sub.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 10:14
What kind of mundane jobs have you had?
None, strangely. I've always had a government job.
pressdotexe
responded to posthumanism
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 10:16
what messenger programs do you use?
"Come," he said, spreading his arms wide. "Bring to me your ICQ protocols, its petals wilted with the years and strained as for so long without the sun. For I am he who will touch them all, and in their use so bring life to them; the lone signal reaching out through eternal darkness from Bucharest to Zemoo, with arms outspread, yea; and while the signal sends, the life continues, messages to servers an echo of a heartbeat, then an echo of an echo; for unto them all do I give life, and their life they render unto me. I am the final user, and will ever be until that day that IP6 is a memory."
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 10:20
Thanks, Zex. I'm really hoping that the poem gets good eventually.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 10:21
How was this Christmas for you compared to others?
My balls touched another guy's but I didn't really mind.
pressdotexe
responded to TheAndrogyne
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 10:22
What will you only buy when it's on sale?
Steam games and that's why I have 200+ games that I've not played yet.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Wednesday 2 January, 2013 at 10:22
Describe a part of the best night of your life. I had a pretty big one last night so I want to hear it from others!
Baaalllls.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Wednesday 13 February, 2013 at 10:45
Do you consider us friends?
Yes.
pressdotexe
responded to Cearmaid
on Sunday 24 February, 2013 at 01:10
Anyone got any opinions about this new Hero Distribution Legislation, or have you not been keeping up?
In order for it to work RI has been petitioning the Federal government to establish infrastructure programs in underdeveloped countries. The whole program could go bust and I wouldn't mind.
pressdotexe
responded to laylaward
on Sunday 24 February, 2013 at 01:12
Check out this photo and respond!
Oh dear.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 24 February, 2013 at 01:13
How much power are you comfortable having?
Enough to stop a person without killing them.
pressdotexe
responded to Zexecutioner
on Sunday 24 February, 2013 at 01:15
How has your past week been?
The PS4 announcement needed more references to Ridge Racer.
pressdotexe
responded to swiftgear
on Sunday 24 February, 2013 at 01:16
So if you could choose a pair for us to cosplay, who would you choose? PICTURE REFERENCES MIGHT HELP ME OR OTHERS.