Jul 27, 2017, 1:46 PM
I don't even know what it means in a literal term, it's just a term I hear bandied about, and in this context, it seemed properly British.
POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check
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I don't even know what it means in a literal term, it's just a term I hear bandied about, and in this context, it seemed properly British.
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Are you purposefully trying to make this thread unreadable?
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No, sorry, I had an insomniac night. I'll stop sharing.
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@Chet said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:
I don't even know what it means in a literal term, it's just a term I hear bandied about, and in this context, it seemed properly British.
Like--please don't use words you don't know. At least look them up first. Please.
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@Chet said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:
I'm sorry if I went off on a tangent, I'm working on sharpening up a writing tactic for use in whatever little niche writing gig I can find,
Good Lord, I feel for whoever has to read your resume, draft, whatever.
Especially combined with:
@Chet said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:
I don't even know what it means in a literal term, it's just a term I hear bandied about, and in this context, it seemed properly British.
As someone with published work, dude... I don't know. There are no words.
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@Coin At the expense of looking like a goth kid being cornered by another goth kid in a cultural discourse, it was a joke.
@Gilette I'm only at the conceptual framework stages of the design theory right now with a number of episodic concepts I've laid out, I'm just getting into the actual literary narrative classes to retrain myself from economics and history. That was my previous course of study. I'm probably going to go with comic books as my genre, since I'm only symmetric in my abstract depth when presenting a neutral analysis. Everything else is just sales. Obama doesn't have to sell John McCain during the Presidential debate.
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@Chet I think we all respect and are thankful for your attempts at improvement through your education.
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@Chet Oh my god lol.
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@Chet As an English professor, I would recommend--seriously, and without intentional disdain/scorn--that you take a course in technical or professional writing if you can. You may find it extremely helpful for developing clearer, more straightforward writing that's attentive of audience expectations.
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@Chet As not an English professor, I think this is all gold. Please start a thread of just 'Chet's Thoughts'. I'd totally read your thoughts on MU*ing as a whole, superheroes, and anything else that moves your heart to talk about.
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He's our very own Tommy Wiseau.
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Also, I'm just going to say that you shouldn't need to retrain from history to narrative as history is all about narratives.
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So back on another game, there was one guy who was a paramedic irl and every once in a while during the middle of a scene he'd make up some excuse and say he had to afk for a minute or two. He'd come back, and then almost immediately start to become less and less coherent in the most hilarious of ways and pick fights with everyone and just lose his mind. Flowing prose to being able to barely type in a couple minutes flat. Overpowering drug addictions, while sad, do make for very very memorable MU experiences.
Apropos of nothing.
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Oh, the fomble fongers in the joble cell.
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@fatefan said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:
@Chet As an English professor, I would recommend--seriously, and without intentional disdain/scorn--that you take a course in technical or professional writing if you can. You may find it extremely helpful for developing clearer, more straightforward writing that's attentive of audience expectations.
Actually, I'd recommend he just stop being pretentious.
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Stream of thought writing can back-fire hilariously. I've done it before, because the thoughts are coming too quickly to keep up with. Then I read it a day later and see I am missing whole sentences, failed to connect what I'm talking about in one paragraph to another, etc. Honestly, I just think he needs to write a draft, wait an hour, then re-read it to see if it makes sense.
I got some tidbits of what I think @chet was trying to say, but it is definitely rambling.
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@TNP I was hoping a structured environment (devoid of any creative writing trappings) might help lead him in that direction.
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@Chet said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:
For instance, I have chtirophobic conduct disorder RL, that's the Scarecrow, people that make sibilances (whistling, sing-songs, mutters) are sometimes sociopathic, and the chtirophobia (fear of birds) causes it to piss me off. So, I display sociopathic behavior to anyone that tries a sociopathic tactic.
"Chtirophobic conduct disorder" is not a thing.
"Conduct disorder" is a thing, "chtirophobia" (...ch...chirophobia?) is the fear of hands, but there is no official diagnosis for "lashing out at people because they whistle like a bird."
That is an armchair diagnosis from someone who is avoiding a real and very serious issue if I have ever heard one, and please understand I am not trying to be mean when I very strongly suggest you talk to a professional.
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I bit (to the point of bleeding) a bully in kindergarten for stealing my comb in front of the class. I'm pretty sure I've qualified for it ever since. And I hate whistling, melody, and sing-songs that people make.
Sorry if I don't know my psychiatric terms, it's something I figured I should avoid after being a DC Comics fan. (I went into a tailspin trying to pick psychology up after college, my doctor - a neurologist as well as a psychiatrist - suggested I knock it off with the psychology, this apparently a common issue, I didn't even tell him I was studying it)
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@Gilette The history program I attended was actually more of a foreign and domestic policy course about conspiracy theory in American and world culture. It taught you all of the weird little ins and outs of incidents in world history and American history (we had a class, History of the Grateful Dead, by R. Weir, about the relation between the US hippie scene, the drug scene, and government corporate agents, one semester). For example, a class textbook was Confessions of an Economic Hitman, which is a tell-all about the CIA, whose veracity is officially denied by our government. Neo-colonialism was the major topic back then, in the final years of George W. Bush.
To illustrate: I took a great class on pre-colonial and colonial Latin-American culture, covering their rituals, religion, and interactions with the Spanish (the Mayan prince's renewal ritual - I won't go into the details - as well as the Mexica/Azteca afterlife and its relationship to their military dominance, or the tragically maligned Malinke, Dona Maria). You can draw lessons from each of those three to apply to the cultural concepts even in the present, or shift the strategies they used to other areas, eras, even fictional timescapes.
The program wasn't a comprehensive world history, it was actually a landscape thing, if you dig me.
The most useful thing I learned was to non-bias my view of the past with my present tense geo-politics. I had a really flawed history program in my home town.