T^T the journal thing does bother me a bit. i sometimes forget that the characters arent quite face-to-face, which limits a lot of the possible actions. such as tackling. or smirking and having the other person see the smirk.
-sigh- yes, we will miss you. i think luceti just lost half of its excitement w/o anita.
Yeah - I imagine Anita writes a lot more formally than she speaks. I assumed that her entries were translated from Chinese: Chinese doesn't use contractions or words like "gonna" or "wanna" and made her sound too formal. I missed using little facial expressions too. I especially missed using snarky little comments that could be thrown in actions or strikeouts and not be completely misconstrued. T.T
i totally understand the language thing... kinda like "lost in translation"? i can't translate English slang into Cantonese so my cousins don't understand the original meaning. i posted a suggestion for the lucetimods about perhaps adding the 'in-person' option to the RP... i dunno if they're going to consider it, but you leaving made me really think about the lack of interaction between certain characters, so i wanted to try changing it.
Ha ha, I was this close to writing all her entries in Chinese, except that there are players here who actually speak the language and my Chinese is really bad. And I know I get annoyed when I see an entry written not in English and didn't want to alienate, like, everyone in the game.
Similar to 'lost in translation'. I don't think a lot of people write the same way they talk. Her writing/speaking in-game visibly changed when someone met her in person; Anita has no experience with 'casual' writing, but when she speaks, she's using 'lazy' vocab and changing her dialogue in mid-sentence. And stuff. Speaking isn't perfect.
It's a layer of formality and artifice that I personally couldn't get used to. I mean, writing is missing all the little non-verbal cues we pick up from communication, right?
I don't want to cause drama/serious game problems for the mods, but...I was frustrated, it's not my game, what else do I do?
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-sigh- yes, we will miss you.
i think luceti just lost half of its excitement w/o anita.
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i posted a suggestion for the lucetimods about perhaps adding the 'in-person' option to the RP... i dunno if they're going to consider it, but you leaving made me really think about the lack of interaction between certain characters, so i wanted to try changing it.
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Similar to 'lost in translation'. I don't think a lot of people write the same way they talk. Her writing/speaking in-game visibly changed when someone met her in person; Anita has no experience with 'casual' writing, but when she speaks, she's using 'lazy' vocab and changing her dialogue in mid-sentence. And stuff. Speaking isn't perfect.
It's a layer of formality and artifice that I personally couldn't get used to. I mean, writing is missing all the little non-verbal cues we pick up from communication, right?
I don't want to cause drama/serious game problems for the mods, but...I was frustrated, it's not my game, what else do I do?
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Raffle off a 'this ticket is good for one (1) person going home via Malnosso' coupon in my memory!
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