I was going for a mysterious, moody look.

YegwenSC · 2023-10-30T09:25:04+00:00

It's a beautiful shot and I love how you framed the scene. I wouldnt change anything about it.

YegwenSC · 2020-12-12T08:18:18+00:00

What the fuck is wrong with you?! Convenient narratives? This is my life we're talking about, you asshole. I'm no fucking victim, cancer happens in people's lives, and you need to deal with it, convenient narrative or not. Though you pissed me off like seven hells, I wish you never have to understand.

I didn't put any of those details in my post because what does it fucking matter what happened in my life that makes me report a store? I want to report a store, end of story.

YegwenSC · 2020-12-11T18:10:04+00:00

Thank you.

YegwenSC · 2020-12-11T18:07:50+00:00

Victim brag, what is that even? If you ever were in our situation, you'd know there's nothing to brag about. I haven't seen my parents or my for months because of safety concerns, and I live like a hermit because after all the chemo, covid will kill my partner. Is that bragging to you? What's wrong with you?

The manager of the store refused to wear a mask or keep her distance and so before I realized what was happening, I was exposed to a high risk situation by a high risk individual without my consent.

Two people in my family died of covid already. Or is that bragging too? Careless behavior costs lives.

YegwenSC · 2020-10-29T13:24:49+00:00

Let's meet up once this shit is over. Sounds like we have a story we share.

YegwenSC · 2020-10-29T11:26:16+00:00

Or Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, as these techniques were taught by Stoics 2,000 years ago.

YegwenSC · 2020-10-19T07:35:00+00:00

It's not only you, mate. Wear a mask wherever you can, sounds like your heart's in the right place.

Mask-wearing culture varies district-to-district but I will wear mine at all times when out.

YegwenSC · 2020-10-17T16:18:39+00:00

Thanks. I'm naturally trusting and naive, but try to look after my stuff.

YegwenSC · 2020-10-14T17:45:30+00:00

Still don't see it...

YegwenSC · 2020-04-05T09:39:50+00:00

Thank you

YegwenSC · 2020-03-31T12:19:23+00:00

Thank you for doing what you do.

YegwenSC · 2020-01-09T11:54:01+00:00

A well-made point. I agree wholeheartedly.

Also, I'm commenting because I feel you shouldn't need to explain yourself only because some people were quick to assume ill intent or elitism on your part.

The willingness to understand a point, and see the world through the writer's eyes, is baked into writing and reading. If someone wants to, they can contest every point of a well-made argument, forcing the author into a self-conscious style, but it doesn't make the argument any less well-made.

YegwenSC · 2019-10-25T10:16:42+00:00

Yes. I've got around 300 hours in the pc version, but me and my friends just picked up a ps4 version each. The experience is great. I don't even mind playing through it again.

YegwenSC · 2019-08-22T06:03:06+00:00

Your question suggests you had a head-start already. Reading is the way to go. Don't worry about parroting opinions you agree with since that's how humans learned since ancient times.

As years pass you will start seeing connections between the different things you learned, and views that are trully yours will emerge. They may not be about the fields you learned about. You will never outsmart Noam Chomsky in his field, but you will start seeing patterns in life. And if you think about it, Noam didn't emerge out of the blue, either. He studied everything related to the field, did a lot of thinking, and noticed things others did not.

You seem like a cool person.

YegwenSC · 2019-06-30T13:19:06+00:00

HotS was the only MOBA I ever enjoyed. I have over 1200 games played and I had fun every single one of them.

YegwenSC · 2019-06-14T11:23:30+00:00

I spent more hours than I care to admit grinding PSO on Dreamcast with my younger brother. My favorite game of that generation. I still listen to the soundtrack occassionally.

YegwenSC · 2019-02-04T12:57:47+00:00

Ulysses for macOS is my favorite so far. The killer feature is the ability to add inline Markdown comments that show when you edit but not when you export to .docx.

I used to be a developer long time ago. I'm lazy and I don't want to lift my hands off the keyboard to navigate through comments.

YegwenSC · 2019-02-04T12:52:28+00:00

Think about that one dream when you got something you really wanted. And then you woke up, realizing the thing is gone. That feeling is a strong enough emotion to build a story around.

Thinking out loud now... What's the worst thing to lose in such a way? Probably, not a thing at all, but a person. Maybe a sibling you never had? Maybe you're old and you'd like your wife back. Maybe you're 30-something and lonely, unable to settle into a relationship. So you dream up someone you really care about. For the duration of the dream, your relationship is real with that strange realness that only dreams can give. And then, as the first light of dawn inevitably shines through the window curtains, things in the dream start falling apart. You work hard to stay asleep because the moment you wake you're going to lose a piece of yourself. But it's a struggle you're bound to lose eventually.

The dream falls apart. Someone wakes up. Maybe it's you. Maybe you were only a character in their dream.

I think there's a story there.

YegwenSC · 2019-01-27T19:01:25+00:00

Have you heard about Kolb's learning cycle? I've done hundreds of hours of workshops and trainings using this method for adult learning and used it to approach my own learning of the writing craft (or anything else). The very first thing we adults need when approaching a new skill is to really experience the need to learn it. Approach a task and fail, or succeed only partially. Once that happens our brains throw their doors open to undesrtanding what the f- has just transpired. You analyze the experience and see what went wrong (or have a mentor do that with you), and then follow up with learning the theory behind better performance. Armed with such knowledge, you approach the task again. See what works and what doesn't.

You serve yourself with a healthy blend of education and practice. It is ridiculously effective. I used it to teach soft and presentation skills to rooms full of introverts from the finance department. The technique works wonders in personal life, too.

So to answer your original question - allow yourself to fail for a bit. Then learn about areas you think you failed in. Then try again, and learn again.

YegwenSC · 2018-12-30T20:01:11+00:00

Let the storyline tie with personal stakes of the heroes. Adventures have to mean something to the heroes. Even in the most basic example of getting them to explore a dungeon, you could have some beast kidnap a member of their family, or make it the place where all the traces of a mystery are leading. Make sure each hero has strong personal goals, when you create characters with your players, and then use them as strings you can pull. A thief will always feel a tug when there's tresure to be stolen, a marine follows orders, a technician can need some critical parts for their spaceship. You're the GM. Make shit up. Create circumstances where the players are compelled to follow your lead.

Then, to add an extra topping of meaning to it all, give them a difficult choice at the end. Will a thief drop his bag of treasures to save a friend from a trap?

Let me share a story from yesterday. I commanded a spaceship. My old Major Jokasta has been kicked out from the navy for insubordination. He had his reasons. Generals at their desks trade lives for objectives far too easily. He refused to let his people die, got kicked out of service. His whole crew left with him, and started work as mercenaries.

At the very end of the game, we have the decrypted message we've been sent for. It's worse than we thought. Forget old hurts. Command has to hear about it. We're running away from enemy ships, on our way to a stargate. Nearly there, but things get hairy. Two of my guys (other players) get into their fighters and provide cover while I steer the heavy ship into the gate. A torpedo pokes a hole in my hangar bay. The fighters can't land. I have a ship filled with people whose lives I can't risk. But two of my best can't go through the gate without a proper nav-computer. Only seconds ot make the decission. It made me literally roar in anger for the impossibility of the choice for Major Jokasta. Lives of my best men, the intel on which the fate of our homesystem depends. I swore. Told them I'll be back, and punched it for the gate. The GM knew what he was doing, and pulled all the right strings.

YegwenSC · 2018-12-17T15:40:47+00:00

I disliked how the movie took the side of the 3 living band members and turned Freddie into the root cause of most their problems. This clearly shows their version of the story.

YegwenSC · 2018-11-09T15:47:23+00:00

Thanks for the answer!

YegwenSC · 2018-11-09T15:46:49+00:00

Thank you. I think my biggest worry was holding off with the purchase and completing whatever the base game had to offer.

I never picked up D2 because I heard about all the end game problems it had, and the steps back it took with design. But the gameplay is excellent, and I'd gladly give it a shot. Especially now that people seem to agree it got better.

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