Subject: If you have the time...
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Posted on: 2014-08-27 23:33:00 UTC
Go and read The Player of Games. It's a good book and the most accessible Culture book. (Excession is too complicated, Use of Weapons and Consider Phlebas are really depressing, Look to Windward is kinda boring, etc.)
Hi there guys. I'm James Shields. I may call me James.
I feel I have lurked around PPC enough. I got to know you guys through Tv Tropes. Since then I have read every relevant introductory material, including The Original Series of course, a good deal of spin off series and plenty of the wiki pages. So I figured it was time I joined The Board.
I am from Brazil, my first language is Portuguese, though I pride myself enough on my English that plan on taking translation as my career choice.
I have plenty of major fandoms so lets break this down a little bit
Animanga: Nanoha, Sakura, Sailor Moon and most slice-of-life stuff
Cartoons: MLP:Fim and Arthur
Literature: Harry Potter, Anne of Green Gables, A Little Princess, 1984, Brave New World and Les Miserables
Tv shows: How I met your mother and Brothers and Sisters
Videogames: Mass Effect
Visual Novels: Kana: Little Sister, Katawa Shoujo and Clannad
Also among the spin off, I love Firemagic and Sergioturbo's stuff, Unpleasent Memories and All Done With This Niceness and Negotiation Stuff are my favorite missions.
So... that's about it. Hope that wasn't too much of an Info Dump. If I have left anything to be ask, ask away!
Could I be paired with a Big Sib from House Grave Energy Initiative please?
-Mainly sees crickets-
I don't think the big/little sib houses were active in a long time.
I'm all in for opening them up again, though.
The wiki page seems to indicate that they are not very active, but it couldn't hurt to ask right?
This question makes me think. The wiki's article on oldbies says oldbies are people who've stayed around for two or three years. I fit that description, but I feel more like a midbie because there are "older" people here (PPC-wise). Is the article outdated, or am I really an oldbie and I just don't notice that?
You've not only passed Minimum Expected Standards ages ago, you're exceeding them with flying colors now, which is a general mark of 'oldbie'.
Basically, you actually know your stuff and can answer questions correctly without getting the person asking(and/or yourself) confused, which is generally a good stamp on whether you're an oldbie or not.
Have this ME amour and flutter shy toy
I guess that was supposed to mean armour. Can't give me anymore ME love, thats for sure. Its simply phisically impossible!
It seems that we only have Mass Effect in common. So...here's a replica of the Normandy from ME3!
Welcome aBoard!
I do love me some Mass Effect items! * takes the model and mounts at the wall a la Mass Effect 2, over the space hamster cage *
Another Potterhead and Brony? I think you'll fit in just fine here. ;)
For your present, I give thee a barking owl. She has an urple bow tied around her neck, but if it starts to make your eyes water, feel free to remove it.
Welcome aBoard!
Hi sjosten and Rats! and thanks for the welcomes!
Oh thanks Iximaz * Barking owl flies and lands on the window that just materialized * I shall name you Cão! *
Starts barking Au Au! * What wrong is biy are you hurt? * looks at urple * Maybe I should take this off * takes off bow and both are happier * Much better!
eatpraylove, I was not familiar with Sailor Moon Crystal. But yeah looking it up it does seen awesome, probably should find some time to check that up.
I do not own any Nintendo system since 64 and the last Smash Bros I played was Meele. I also dont know any one who has and lives close enough me so out of luck there.
Thanks for the gifts * munches on more popcorn and then starts to cuddle Kero-chan * Well as you see I am trying to fitting lose my sanity as quickly as possible * puts on black suit and moonglasses * Do I look cool or what?
Good to know you've done your research. I like Sailor Moon too! Have you been watching Sailor Moon Crystal? It looks SO COOL! (I should probably get back around to watching the original anime; lots of fond memories there)
Do you play Super Smash Bros? You referred to yourself as a new challenger, so that made me think of that game. (I'm kind of bad at it, so I mostly watch and cheer.)
Anyway, your newbie gifts are popcorn, a Kero-chan plushie, and a classy black suit. Enjoy, welcome a'Board, and may you keep your sanity as long as possible!
Those books used to be my favorite when I was a wee lad, and I'm glad to see another who thinks the same way. Welcome, and enjoy my complementary gifts of a Golden Snitch with a Pokéball engraving and a crimsun Fwooper!
Those books were an awesome part of my childhood as well! Though it is one of those series were it is pretty easy to find badfic
:( I already have some to contribute soon unfortunately but I also have goodfics and I plan to start with those!
Also what is a crimsun Fwooper? Thanks for the Golden Snitch by-the-way
Good to know regarding the goodfic part. I'd really like to see an agent from you from the Harry Potter continuum, we need more of those to deal with magical Sues!
And to answer your question...
"The Fwooper is a magical African bird with brightly-coloured feathers, which can include orange, pink, lime green and yellow. Listening to the Fwooper's song will drive the listener insane, so each bird must be sold with a Silencing Charm placed on it. [...] Uric the Oddball once tried to convince the Wizards' Council that the Fwooper song was actually beneficial to a Wizard's health, and listened to it continuously for three months. His presentation did not go well, when he turned up wearing nothing but a toupee that, on closer examination, was revealed to be a dead badger." [source]
Crimsun is one of the colors on the Sue Spectrum, which refers to impossible, notoriously eye-burning colors produced when a Suethor misspells or mishandles colors in a badfic. Crimsun is "a disturbing mixture of hot pink, lime green, and orange", and since Fwoopers come in all three colors, I figured it fit quite nicely.
I really see myself having a HP and or Nanoha agents(s) when the time comes for that.
Oh great something I can't neither see or hear. Why do I get the feeling that it is not Silenced * Fwooper begins to sing * Oh God Why!!!!!!!!!! * Produces Muggle-use wand and starts randomly casting Silencio while not looking at Suvian color. Misses target * SOMEBODY HELP ME! * Finally hits target *
Oh good. Anyone knows If Color Change Charms are included in one of these and if they work on Suvian colors
Those books were an awesome part of my childhood as well! Though it is one of those series were it is pretty easy to find badfic
:( I already have some to contribute soon unfortunately but I also have goodfics and I plan to start with those!
Also what is a crimsun Fwooper? Thanks for the Golden Smirch by-the-way
Nice to meet you, and I'm glad you liked things I wrote!
Here, have some Schrodinger's Cookies - do and do not contain chocolate simultaneously until they are being eaten.
Ooh, another Nanoha fan! There aren't lots of us here - in fact, if memory serves you're the fourth. In fact, this occasion is so special I'll deviate from my usual habit of giving predatory tea as a newbie gift and give you a Friedrich plushy instead.
-Snatches All Done With This Niceness and Negotiation Stuff the mini-GOU away-
Its name is All Through With This Niceness and Negotiation Stuff.
Oops, I gave the shtick away.
First post and I have already created a Mini! * head-desks repeatdly * Fourth? I know that there is well, you and Firemagic. Who is the other one. And what kind of Mini is that by the way?
There's Sergio Turbo, Firemagic AKA Karrin the Blue, and me. Firemagic wrote Unpleasant Memories with Sarge, and I wrote ATWNaNS with Firemagic and Maslab (who mostly hangs around in the IRC channel).
The mini is, admittedly, of a new kind - you're the first person I know of that misspelled the name of a Culture Offensive Unit.
Of course the guy who has an Unison Device agent and co-wrote one of the missions I listed as one of my favorites is the other Nanoha fan, of course * face-palms again *
What is a Culture Offensives Unit?
Anyway, wherever the plushie came from I love it. * picks up ADWTNANT and curdles it * Who is a good Fried plushie Mini? Yes you are!
So Des, what is your favorite Nanoha goodfic?
Yes, as Firemmagic noted all of my missions and interludes are named after Culture spacecraft, though the prelude isn't and one of them ("End in Tears") is actually a Rock - mobile space habitat. An OU is basically a Culture fighter craft, and out of all Culture ship types they're the most... morally disagreeable as they're built to love war.
As to my favourite Nanoha goodfic... I think Game Theory and its sequel Power Games are a safe bet.
So what would a Mini of that look like?
I like the Game Theory-verse. The worldbuilding fixes are awesome and it's nice to see Fate be treat semi-decently by Precea for once.
I personally love the Nanoha-Slayers crossover Blood that flows.
I'd assume it looks like an asteroid whose face is a museum of Culture propulsion and weapon systems through the ages.
Ah okay. Like I said to Firemagic, I am not familiar with Culture
Go and read The Player of Games. It's a good book and the most accessible Culture book. (Excession is too complicated, Use of Weapons and Consider Phlebas are really depressing, Look to Windward is kinda boring, etc.)
I got PLENTY of reading material right now but at some point in the proximate future I might try it. Never cant get of pop culture, especially if it is ppc-cer approved material
-Looks at his own reading list-
Yeah, I can understand that feeling.
I may have upwards of 20 on my queque right now ...
TBH, I have no idea how many things I have waiting on their wings, and I just got a few more (mostly Descrates but also something by Leibnitz and The Consolation of Philosophy by Boetius).
I confess that I dont much literary stuff in there. Maybe Heidi and a few Chekov collections, but the rest is non-fiction, romance novels and mainstream novels. But hey can high brow all the time right
Oh, that's not classic literature. That's philosophy, which is one of my, let's say, fields of interest. I actually don't read that much classic literature anyway; the most immediate thing I'm reading right now is Herodotus' History.
Specifically spacecraft from The Cultur universe.
Oh, I never knew that series before. Thanks. Well guess it is good to innovate even if by screwing up. Who else can claim to create a new type of mini on their first post on the board? * smiles sheepishly*
It is really nice to meet you Firemagic. Love your stories ( even if I misspelled one of their titles)
Oh didn't see your other post. sorry. And you are welcome. * grabs Schrondinger cookies* lets try our luck with metaphysical experiment- inspired sweets shall we? * takes a bite * hum really good chocolate * takes another bite * no chocolate this time but still great. Thanks!
Mass Effect seems to be the only major fandom I have in common with a lot of the people here, so you're especially welcome. Have a Carafe of Continuous Caffeine. It doesn't break any major laws of physics... much...
And please tell me there isn't badfic of Anne of Green Gables.... *shudder*
Thanks. I not much used to caffeine yet but I guess this that won't be problem anymore.
Well, good to find another Mass Effecter. cheers!
And no, not that I have ever seen any and I am sure not looking for them yet. I didn't list PPc-able stuff, just general insterest for introduction purposes.
Can't have too many of those. :)
Welcome on Board! Have a space hamster and some popcorn as a welcoming gift.
I have played Mass Effect 2 pretty extensively so I would that counting all of my Shepard's identities, I have had more than a half dozen of space hamster. They are cute thought so thanks. And thanks for the popcorn. * munches over it * Are there many of us around here?
*steals a handful of popcorn back*
*munches thoughtfully* (The best way to munch.)
There are a few, I think, but off the top of my head, I can only think of Herr Wozzeck. He has a Turian agent.
Hey, um never mind you can steal what you gave me I guess...
So, that sounds instetesting. I actually haven't read any Mass Effect mission, if there are any. Does have some?
Also, have you read And the meek shall inherit the galaxy?
I heard someone say "Mass Effect".
Anyways, welcome new person! Have some of my world-famous hydrophobic water to commemorate the event. Restocked, reloaded, and really, really dangerous to rehydrate yourself with.
Nice to see another ME fan around here. Might I ask who your favourite race is? I like the quarians myself.
If you're looking for ME-verse missions, head on over to the Wiki's Mass Effect page and take a look around. It even has a list of agents native to the continuum (which include two of mine, but they're unpublished as of yet).
Hidrophobic ... water ... water that repels waters * logic bomb * I will be sure to never drink it thought I suppose I could get myself not-wet as to not get wet with regular water! * suffers mental breakdown please stanch *
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Ok I am good now. So, oh yeah the wiki page. I briefly checked that one out once. Guess I will have check it again. Thanks!
I love the Quarians too! Talk is pretty much my favorite character and regular romantic instetedt with my main Shep. Have you checked out Meek yet? You should if you haven't. Quarians feature prominently in that story.
Hi there! Also, yay for Mass Effect! I think you will find a decent number of us who like that around here.
I see you have already been given the link to the Mass Effect wiki page, which lists missions to that continuum (my first ever mission is among them). You may also be interested in the list of minis: http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Mini/Mass_Effect.
Also, newbie gifts! Have a pair of light moonglasses, in case you ever need to look cool at night or in space. They may or may not also help slightly with Suvian colours (currently untested).
That fic was bad! How do you misspell the title of the work you are writing something on is beyond me!
Also lets test these babies them * Puts on light moonglasses and picks up Infinity lined notebook * Maybe I can write on this now! * looks at wilver binder and begins to suffer aftereffects * NO! WHY! * Stands around and waits couple of minutes for vision and mind to become normal *
......... Guess will have to save those for nights then. Mark as tested: not appropriate for at Suvian colors. Thanks anyway!
Hello and welcome!
I give to you now a lined Infinite Notebook, complete with urple covers and wilver binding. Don't look at it straight on!
-Aila
Thanks, I do tend to write a lot, thought I will have to find a way to write without looking at the binder and be blinded by Sue colors * shudders * Any sugestions?
From my understanding, only the colors of the cover and spine (binding?) are affected. Paper should be a nice, safe shade of white.
Feel free to correct me there.
But I can totally see why you wouldn't want to look even then; it's generally still possible to see a bit of binding and cover when books are open.
-Aila
Yeah thats the problem. But... I can write decently while looking away from paper when people are dictating so I guess could try to do that... without the dictating of course. Dictating stuff to another person to they can dictate it to you might be a little to weird even for PPC.
There's a reason I give the things away!
-Aila
Ok then. Guess I will have to find another it. Thanks anyway
As your newbie gift, I bequeath to thee a blello rocket launcher with unlimited ammo. It also plays dubstep when you fire it.
What is dubstep
An uninitiated!
Let me direct you to this Youtube channel, filled with choice Dubstep, Drumstep, Drum & Bass, Electro, and other EDM tunes.
Okay then. I will check that out later when I can actually listen to it and get back to you then.
Literally sounds like good stuff. I listened to some of it. Seems good to me. I guess if you got a rocket launcher that also plays music it would pay well to at least like the music so I am glad. Thans again!
Welcome aboard! As my Newbie Gift to you, here's a completely normal cardboard box! There's nothing special about it, so ignore anything it tries to tell you.
Um, thanks ... * picks cardboard box up * Yeah this looks completely normal * starts hearing voices and speaking gibberish * Ixjaj ksdjsk!