ParadoxicalZen he/him Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 I have Finding Dory on the brain. The feels man. Just keep swimming! Just keep swimming! Just keep swimming!
Kaymyth she/her Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 3 hours ago, Aonar Faileas said: Aiden is actually significantly more common of a spelling for the name than Aidan. (They're both correct, although Aidan is slightly closer to the original Gaelic Aodhan.) Much to my mild annoyance, because it means my name is constantly spelled wrong on various documents. Huh. Learn something new every day. So much for using the standard formula for creating a Scadrian name: "Take a real name, change a letter or two, and poof! Here's a character."
Sunbird she/her Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 58 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: I've heard about countries that do that. Coming from a nation where celebrities name their kids Apple and Bronx, and a man once legally changed his name to Ynot Bubba, restricting names seems a bit odd to me. I feel sorry for children of celebrities who name their kids really weird stuff like that. Kanye West's kids, for example--North West and Saint West. I mean, really?? Why would you do that to your child? I mean, at least Nicolas Cage's name choice of Kal-el for his son, while eccentric, won't make the boy such an obvious target for mockery.
Sunbird she/her Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 42 minutes ago, Delightful said: Isn't Kal-el superman related? Yup, it's Superman's name that his parents from Krypton gave him. Nicolas Cage also took the "Cage" part of his stage name from the Marvel comics character Luke Cage. His birth surname was Coppola.
The Honor Spren she/her Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 On June 19, 2016 at 10:55 PM, The Only Joe said: Would you mind if i reposted it then and source it to your 17th shard profile? I got it up now, my username is novathesuper. 10 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: New chapter, everyone! I think you should know, every time you put up a new chapter, it makes my day. And on the subject of names, does anyone else think that Lyric is a beautiful one? 1
Quiver he/him Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 ...is it poor RPG etiquette to pick languages you know the enemy will have? It's metagaming, but I don't want to short circuit scenes with negotiations. I just want to be able to understand their screams of terror when I wade through them with a battleaxe. 1
Edgedancer he/him Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 8 minutes ago, Quiver said: ...is it poor RPG etiquette to pick languages you know the enemy will have? It's metagaming, but I don't want to short circuit scenes with negotiations. I just want to be able to understand their screams of terror when I wade through them with a battleaxe. I know sources that encourage a bit of metagaiming with the character creation to make sure the character fits with the game.
Quiver he/him Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Edgedancer said: I know sources that encourage a bit of metagaiming with the character creation to make sure the character fits with the game. Being able to understand the terror of my enemies is very important for my character. Actually, in all seriousness, the character I'm building at the moment is fun. A priest of the god of walls and keys, which I'm interpreting as 'siege engineer'. Who also happens to be a monkey. Edited June 21, 2016 by Quiver 2
Edgedancer he/him Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 1 hour ago, Quiver said: Being able to understand the terror of my enemies is very important for my character. Actually, in all seriousness, the character I'm building at the moment is fun. A priest of the god of walls and keys, which I'm interpreting as 'siege engineer'. Who also happens to be a monkey. Monkey screeching should be a useful asset for psychological warfare and morals during sieges.
Darkness Ascendant he/him Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 (edited) I have a very strange friend called Hung. He is a Vietnamese Weeaboo (not being stereotypical) who likes horror films and the weirdest anime. Just to make the point. he spams my messenger with gory and disgusting gifs. His favourite seems to be one of an anime girl stabbing her eye with a fork and then eating her eye. I cannot message Hung because of this. I still have nightmares. Anyway, the other day he showed us a korean horror short-movie called "Human Form", which is about a girl living in a society where everyone has plastic surgery, and she is the one who doesn't, because of her isolation, she takes extreme measures to have plastic surgery. The film is more psychological horror. The first time you watch it, you find it very disturbing how everyone looks. But once you look past that and see how relatable and deep the meaning is behind the movie, it becomes all the more creepy but enlightening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lgf30wFOlA Edited June 21, 2016 by Darkness Ascendant
Delightful Posted June 21, 2016 Author Posted June 21, 2016 (edited) @Darkness Ascendant I haven't watched the link but the concept sounds like the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld....kind of. Everyone gets plastic surgery at 16 so they're all equally pretty, the main characters best friend runs away just before her operation and drags her with. Edited June 21, 2016 by Delightful
Darkness Ascendant he/him Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 1 minute ago, Delightful said: @Darkness Ascendant I haven't watched the link but the concept sounds like the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld....kind of. Everyone gets plastic surgery at 16 so they're all equally pretty, the main characters best friend runs away just before her operation and drags her with. in this case you should seriously catch the link. The concept may be the same, but the clip is alot different to what you have mentioned. Beware the nightmares
Curious Anamaximder he/him Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 What is going on? Am I on mobile or what?
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 6 hours ago, The Honor Spren said: I think you should know, every time you put up a new chapter, it makes my day. And on the subject of names, does anyone else think that Lyric is a beautiful one? Thanks! It is kind of pretty, now that you mention it. I don't know that I'd use it, but it's pretty.
Mestiv he/him Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 38 minutes ago, Curious Anamaximder said: What is going on? Am I on mobile or what? I guess you are on the new version of the Shard Chaos updated it a couple of days ago
Curious Anamaximder he/him Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 4 minutes ago, Mestiv said: I guess you are on the new version of the Shard Chaos updated it a couple of days ago Okay. Still in shock. 1
Pinnacle-Ferring he/him Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 I was just researching the didgeridoo for a character I'm building (long story) and I came across this really cool breathing technique used for several wind instruments called "circular breathing". Basically, when you're about to run out of air, you push the rest of the air you have left into your cheeks and slowly let it out into the instrument while breathing in through the nose and resuming blowing from the lungs once the air in your mouth is depleted, creating a seamless stream of air and a long, continuous note. Apparently, there was this guy who played the didgeridoo constantly with no breaks in his airflow for 50 minutes! How awesome is that? 1
Kaymyth she/her Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 2 hours ago, Pinnacle-Ferring said: I was just researching the didgeridoo for a character I'm building (long story) and I came across this really cool breathing technique used for several wind instruments called "circular breathing". Basically, when you're about to run out of air, you push the rest of the air you have left into your cheeks and slowly let it out into the instrument while breathing in through the nose and resuming blowing from the lungs once the air in your mouth is depleted, creating a seamless stream of air and a long, continuous note. Apparently, there was this guy who played the didgeridoo constantly with no breaks in his airflow for 50 minutes! How awesome is that? It's a neat party trick, but not something I'd expect most professional musicians choose to do. A lot of the tone of a wind instrument comes from the breath support, and switching that from your diaphragm to your cheeks will cause a substantial drop in tone quality.
Pinnacle-Ferring he/him Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 3 hours ago, Kaymyth said: It's a neat party trick, but not something I'd expect most professional musicians choose to do. A lot of the tone of a wind instrument comes from the breath support, and switching that from your diaphragm to your cheeks will cause a substantial drop in tone quality. That's where the skill comes in. Those musicians have to practice this to the point where you can't tell where they switch.
Sunbird she/her Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 I expect it would also help if you were blowing up balloons without a pump or anything.
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 Angel: "You're not from that freaky church on Sunset, are you?" I wondered if this line was a Take That to a specific church, so I asked the Knower of All Things (Google). Apparently, there are a dozen churches on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Even when this episode was made, there had to have been at least half that many, giving this particular Take That the ability to be applied to a variety of different targets, dependent on the whims of the viewer. Well played, Whedon. Well played.
Delightful Posted June 22, 2016 Author Posted June 22, 2016 10 hours ago, Pinnacle-Ferring said: I was just researching the didgeridoo for a character I'm building (long story) and I came across this really cool breathing technique used for several wind instruments called "circular breathing". Basically, when you're about to run out of air, you push the rest of the air you have left into your cheeks and slowly let it out into the instrument while breathing in through the nose and resuming blowing from the lungs once the air in your mouth is depleted, creating a seamless stream of air and a long, continuous note. Apparently, there was this guy who played the didgeridoo constantly with no breaks in his airflow for 50 minutes! How awesome is that? So as a kid that's how I was taught people play the didgeridoo, but I've also heard that that's an urban legend and there's a different way to play. I'm hardly a didgeridoo expert so I don't know, I just know that it sounds pretty cool.
Kaymyth she/her Posted June 22, 2016 Posted June 22, 2016 1 hour ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: Angel: Hide contents "You're not from that freaky church on Sunset, are you?" I wondered if this line was a Take That to a specific church, so I asked the Knower of All Things (Google). Apparently, there are a dozen churches on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Even when this episode was made, there had to have been at least half that many, giving this particular Take That the ability to be applied to a variety of different targets, dependent on the whims of the viewer. Well played, Whedon. Well played. Actually, I believe that line was a callback to the Buffy S3 episode "Anne".
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted June 22, 2016 Posted June 22, 2016 28 minutes ago, Kaymyth said: Hide contents Actually, I believe that line was a callback to the Buffy S3 episode "Anne". How did I not pick up on that?
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