Meme questions
Hey, why not. The standard rules apply and such.
kouaidou
1. In an idealized, yet realistic world--ie, one where you still have all of your regular faults and potentials, but get all the proper breaks to take full advantage of them--what would your ideal profession be?
I would probably opt for something quiet and stable like librarian work. Or with a little extra effort and training, I wouldn't mind being a small scale systems administrator.
2. What about in a totally idealized world?
I think I would like to be a professional food critic. I would be guaranteed to be well fed for free wherever I choose to eat out and I would force Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse to grovel at my feet. GROVEL AT MY FEET.
3. You likes the asian cinema. What do you feel are the best and worst aspects of the genre?
As far as HK cinema goes, I think I enjoy the frenetic pace and the intensity of the direction. Whether they're action pieces, dramas or comedies, HK films tend to go at breakneck speed and hammer in their point with lots of gusto. If it's an action film, the action will never stop for more than a few minutes at a time and it will always strive to be dynamic and fluid with the movements and positions of the actors. If it's a drama, it'll build to a climax as quickly and as forcefully as it can, even if it has to resort to intense melodrama to achieve the effect. If it's a comedy, it'll throw everything including the kitchen sink at you and go as over the top as it can.
The comedic style HK cinema likes to use isn't always quite my cup of tea though. It tends to include a lot of lowbrow humor that involve pretty stereotypical and unflattering homosexual and misogynist jokes that make me shake my head a bit whenever they worm their way into a film I'm watching. Also, the direction that HK cinema's been heading towards lately what with the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-ish type epic dramas actually has turned me off a bit, even when it's done well like with Hero. I find myself missing that frenetic pace that attracted me to HK cinema in the first place.
4. What was your first experience in RP gaming, and how do you feel you've changed since then?
My first forays into roleplaying of any sort were of the tabletop variety with my friends in high school. We primarily played some of the worldsetting based games like Legend of the Five Rings and the World of Darkness stuff but we never did get into them seriously. We pretty much solidly fell into the stereotypical player composition; we had a bard who sometimes tried ambitious things (doomed to failure) when it was his turn to GM, a bloody stupid thief, a dumb brute and I usually was the oddball that probably shouldn't have been with the other wackos in the party. We spent a lot of time playing around with character sheets and not as much time actually roleplaying but it was a fairly fun way of spending our high school weekends what with the pizza and the computer gaming on the side and all.
My first forays into online gaming were in AOL chatrooms and a Tenchi Muyo IRC game when I still was a part of that fandom. Even then, I don't think I was much of a casual gamer; I only really played when there were definite overreaching plots that were moving forward. I skipped a lot of early C-ko's/Nexus and Nexus-R because of such and only really started to roleplay heavily when the heyday of the private room games started up after that. I can't really say my habits have significantly changed from the early days, though I might be able to say I've refined them somewhat. I do think I've become less of a reactive player over time, as the gaming atmosphere on the server has evolved steadily and has started to demand a more assertive role from all players involved.
5. Let's say you woke up one day to discover that you were the chosen pilot of a super robot that, in true super robot tradition, has some symbolic relation to your inner spirit and personality. What does the robot look like, what is it powered by, and what attacks does it have?
Hmm, it would probably have to be a big slab of unmovable metal for the most part. Not many fancy frills or spikey kibble, just heavy armored plates with the rivets clearly showing. Its left hand would be extremely armored, like a gauntlet, while its right hand would have a massive unadorned humongoblade. It would be powered by sheer force of will to achieve its powerful movements that crescendo slowly but steadily from low momentum. The armored gauntlet would block or deflect incoming blows while the big humongoblade would wait for a chance to pay it back with one mighty cleave.
kouaidou
1. In an idealized, yet realistic world--ie, one where you still have all of your regular faults and potentials, but get all the proper breaks to take full advantage of them--what would your ideal profession be?
I would probably opt for something quiet and stable like librarian work. Or with a little extra effort and training, I wouldn't mind being a small scale systems administrator.
2. What about in a totally idealized world?
I think I would like to be a professional food critic. I would be guaranteed to be well fed for free wherever I choose to eat out and I would force Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse to grovel at my feet. GROVEL AT MY FEET.
3. You likes the asian cinema. What do you feel are the best and worst aspects of the genre?
As far as HK cinema goes, I think I enjoy the frenetic pace and the intensity of the direction. Whether they're action pieces, dramas or comedies, HK films tend to go at breakneck speed and hammer in their point with lots of gusto. If it's an action film, the action will never stop for more than a few minutes at a time and it will always strive to be dynamic and fluid with the movements and positions of the actors. If it's a drama, it'll build to a climax as quickly and as forcefully as it can, even if it has to resort to intense melodrama to achieve the effect. If it's a comedy, it'll throw everything including the kitchen sink at you and go as over the top as it can.
The comedic style HK cinema likes to use isn't always quite my cup of tea though. It tends to include a lot of lowbrow humor that involve pretty stereotypical and unflattering homosexual and misogynist jokes that make me shake my head a bit whenever they worm their way into a film I'm watching. Also, the direction that HK cinema's been heading towards lately what with the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-ish type epic dramas actually has turned me off a bit, even when it's done well like with Hero. I find myself missing that frenetic pace that attracted me to HK cinema in the first place.
4. What was your first experience in RP gaming, and how do you feel you've changed since then?
My first forays into roleplaying of any sort were of the tabletop variety with my friends in high school. We primarily played some of the worldsetting based games like Legend of the Five Rings and the World of Darkness stuff but we never did get into them seriously. We pretty much solidly fell into the stereotypical player composition; we had a bard who sometimes tried ambitious things (doomed to failure) when it was his turn to GM, a bloody stupid thief, a dumb brute and I usually was the oddball that probably shouldn't have been with the other wackos in the party. We spent a lot of time playing around with character sheets and not as much time actually roleplaying but it was a fairly fun way of spending our high school weekends what with the pizza and the computer gaming on the side and all.
My first forays into online gaming were in AOL chatrooms and a Tenchi Muyo IRC game when I still was a part of that fandom. Even then, I don't think I was much of a casual gamer; I only really played when there were definite overreaching plots that were moving forward. I skipped a lot of early C-ko's/Nexus and Nexus-R because of such and only really started to roleplay heavily when the heyday of the private room games started up after that. I can't really say my habits have significantly changed from the early days, though I might be able to say I've refined them somewhat. I do think I've become less of a reactive player over time, as the gaming atmosphere on the server has evolved steadily and has started to demand a more assertive role from all players involved.
5. Let's say you woke up one day to discover that you were the chosen pilot of a super robot that, in true super robot tradition, has some symbolic relation to your inner spirit and personality. What does the robot look like, what is it powered by, and what attacks does it have?
Hmm, it would probably have to be a big slab of unmovable metal for the most part. Not many fancy frills or spikey kibble, just heavy armored plates with the rivets clearly showing. Its left hand would be extremely armored, like a gauntlet, while its right hand would have a massive unadorned humongoblade. It would be powered by sheer force of will to achieve its powerful movements that crescendo slowly but steadily from low momentum. The armored gauntlet would block or deflect incoming blows while the big humongoblade would wait for a chance to pay it back with one mighty cleave.