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Last night I was microwaving something for dinner, so I checked the directions first. "...b4 you put it in the oven..." "b4", they actually used "b4" instead of "before", in directions, on a big-name product.
For only the second time in my life, I called the 1-800 number on a product. (First time was when I found a bug in my OJ.) Unfortunately the place was closed already, so I found the website and sent an email. They replied today... yay form letter.
"I'm pleased to know you've tried our T.G.I. Friday's Frozen Snacks but very sorry you were not completely satisfied. We strive to make each item the best available at retail markets. I will forward your comments to our distributor, Heinz and Heinz Frozen Food Company for consideration."
This better not become a trend...
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12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of world building? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?
I think that would have to be PokeMUSH, if for no other reason than the size and the amount of work that went into it. How pokeballs worked, PokeForce, the cops of the Pokemon world, detailed chart on when different pokemon could breed... if it exists in a world, we tried to cover it. (Note: Catlove as a whole seems slow today, it's not just that the PokeMUSH pages are old or anything.)
It's funny, but even today that breeding chart makes me happy. I have such a love of charts, spreadsheets, being organized, tracking changes. I have no idea where it comes from, but I'm always filled with glee when I can use spreadsheets in my personal life. Tracking the wants, haves, and points of our FFXI Assault static was the most fun in FFXI I had for months. There may be something wrong with me!
While PokeMUSH was the best world building, honorable mention needs to be made for FFXI RPing. We took what I considered the best part of the best expansion (the Corsair/Immortal struggle of ToAU expansion) and made it real, fully fleshed it out. We made the battles, both the large ones and the personal ones, seem real. Before that RP, I never, ever empathized with "terrorists", with the little people fighting the overpowering nation in the only ways they could. Now it's different, now I understand what it feels like to be not just fighting for your life, but for the lives of your remaining friends and family, your people, against those who want to erase you from the face of the planet.
That's one of the many wonderful things about RP, how it expands your horizons and your points of view. The FFXI RP was one of those "RP every waking moment, 24/7, for months on end" times, so I really feel like I experienced that battle, the war, the struggles and hardships not just to survive fights, but to survive in other ways -- how do you feed your family when you can't just go out and get a job? How do you raise children when you'd be shot on sight and you know they'd be placed with the enemy's families to be raised as one of them "for their own good"? How do you get through each day not knowing if this would be the day the person you love got killed? Or worse, captured, when capture means tortured with zero chance of rescue?
I could babble on endlessly about that. RP really is just a wonderful, amazing thing.
List of all 30 questions here.
For only the second time in my life, I called the 1-800 number on a product. (First time was when I found a bug in my OJ.) Unfortunately the place was closed already, so I found the website and sent an email. They replied today... yay form letter.
"I'm pleased to know you've tried our T.G.I. Friday's Frozen Snacks but very sorry you were not completely satisfied. We strive to make each item the best available at retail markets. I will forward your comments to our distributor, Heinz and Heinz Frozen Food Company for consideration."
This better not become a trend...
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12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of world building? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?
I think that would have to be PokeMUSH, if for no other reason than the size and the amount of work that went into it. How pokeballs worked, PokeForce, the cops of the Pokemon world, detailed chart on when different pokemon could breed... if it exists in a world, we tried to cover it. (Note: Catlove as a whole seems slow today, it's not just that the PokeMUSH pages are old or anything.)
It's funny, but even today that breeding chart makes me happy. I have such a love of charts, spreadsheets, being organized, tracking changes. I have no idea where it comes from, but I'm always filled with glee when I can use spreadsheets in my personal life. Tracking the wants, haves, and points of our FFXI Assault static was the most fun in FFXI I had for months. There may be something wrong with me!
While PokeMUSH was the best world building, honorable mention needs to be made for FFXI RPing. We took what I considered the best part of the best expansion (the Corsair/Immortal struggle of ToAU expansion) and made it real, fully fleshed it out. We made the battles, both the large ones and the personal ones, seem real. Before that RP, I never, ever empathized with "terrorists", with the little people fighting the overpowering nation in the only ways they could. Now it's different, now I understand what it feels like to be not just fighting for your life, but for the lives of your remaining friends and family, your people, against those who want to erase you from the face of the planet.
That's one of the many wonderful things about RP, how it expands your horizons and your points of view. The FFXI RP was one of those "RP every waking moment, 24/7, for months on end" times, so I really feel like I experienced that battle, the war, the struggles and hardships not just to survive fights, but to survive in other ways -- how do you feed your family when you can't just go out and get a job? How do you raise children when you'd be shot on sight and you know they'd be placed with the enemy's families to be raised as one of them "for their own good"? How do you get through each day not knowing if this would be the day the person you love got killed? Or worse, captured, when capture means tortured with zero chance of rescue?
I could babble on endlessly about that. RP really is just a wonderful, amazing thing.
List of all 30 questions here.
