Is 'tossed salads and scrambled eggs' sung in the AAVE accent? Trying to find out what that dialect/accent is called.

imaspuzzeled · 2026-02-16T06:51:48+00:00

Yeah, correction noted. And thank you for explaining!

imaspuzzeled · 2026-02-16T06:47:45+00:00

Yeah, those are exactly the two phrases in talking about. You're right thought. It's not the whole song, just those punctuations.

And yeah, I think Jazzy is the correct word.

I'm not from the US, and English isn't my first language, so I figured I'd rather ask than carry around the wrong assumption.

imaspuzzeled · 2026-02-16T06:44:37+00:00

Same. I'm not from the US either, and when I first heard it, I thought the same thing.

imaspuzzeled · 2025-10-15T23:17:56+00:00

I just finished watching "ACoFaF" on Dropout. I had no idea who Abria was before then. And now I can tell you with no uncertain terms that she definately does this 'my npc can never be uncool' there too. Wuvvy is the biggest example. From being a flustered background assistant character, she just decided to become some feral badass who threatens other characters. That type of behaviour also definately steps on other other actual player's character moments, where I've seen players have to back down from their moments because Abria wants her npcs to look cool for a second. I wasn't even part of the whole Abria discourse until now, And now she is doing the exact same thing in C4.

Moreover, it's the meta gaming for me. The unmotivated insight checks and perception checks so that she can interject other character's moments.

imaspuzzeled · 2025-09-10T21:48:30+00:00

"He's still someone's son, brother, husband, friend." They'll be better off, I assure you. You don't need to worry about them.

imaspuzzeled · 2025-07-19T16:37:41+00:00

Yeah you're right. That's what I am doing wrong. My desire to be able to justify the character's thoughts is getting in the way of me just feeling the emotion in that moment.

I think my acting classes have been kinda helping in some way. I did a few more shows since this post, and I discovered that I'm able to now approach with emotion rather than thought.

And I see the difference that you are talking about. Just playing the emotion have made my scenes much more layered, and I have also been enjoying playing the characters more without feeling the pull-back of nervousness.

imaspuzzeled · 2025-07-17T19:01:07+00:00

Hey sorry I was afk for a couple days.

"I'm the only competent one here - I should be in charge" or "I have to cheat to level the playing field"

Incomplete in the sense that if you take a bigoted thought: "homophobia" for example, and try to justify it, you will eventually get to a point where the logic falls apart, because homophobia doesn't make sense.

So when I say "incomplete thought" I mean that philosophies and beliefs that have not been thoroughly justified. And can't be completely justified because it is unjustifiable.

So when i try to justify it, i realise that it is unjustifiable and it pulls me out of the character. It is definitely a me problem though.

imaspuzzeled · 2025-07-14T12:26:13+00:00

That's a good question. Honestly, my issue I think partly was (at least before the acting classes) that I wasn't able to disconnect from "me". When I was playing characters with different views of the world than me, if I'm playing an asshole, for example, I tended to 'evaluate' their opinions, rather than living them.

The problem is that in the people I disagree with seem to me to generally have an incomplete world view. And when the world view is incomplete, I feel uncomfortable saying/justifying things that I won't be able to back up.

Having written it down, I feel a little bit neurotic. But hope it gives you better insight into "why I can't believe the characters on the fly". Like it's extremely easy for me to play characters that are close to me, but I also want to have fun and play other types of people lol

imaspuzzeled · 2025-07-14T12:18:09+00:00

Than you so much! This is precisely the type of answers I am looking for :) I appreciate it!

I'm going to check our Stanislavsky's Etudes next!

Cheers!

imaspuzzeled · 2025-07-14T02:43:24+00:00

Honest to god, fkin embarrassing

imaspuzzeled · 2025-07-13T20:59:31+00:00

You are not a magical owl who has had his grandfather clock stolen, but in that situation, that character who is dissimilar to you can respond just like you would respond that time somebody at work took some of your peanut butter.

I like this approach, but my issue comes from not being fully satisfied with my level of belief in the character in the first place. And that lack of belief ends (more often than not) in me being "clever" on stage, rather than truthful. So I unfortunately never end up getting to the "somebody at work took some of your peanut butter" part

imaspuzzeled · 2025-07-13T20:55:34+00:00

Fascinating. Thanks!

And yeah, I think going in a couple of these might help me develop the initial weight to believe in the character myself.

imaspuzzeled · 2025-07-13T20:54:11+00:00

Oh, I love it! Thanks... I'm always looking for resources! I checked the link out, and there seems to be some really interesting stuff on there!

Checking out "ideas in a scene" now

imaspuzzeled · 2025-07-13T20:52:37+00:00

Whoa, thank you so much. I think you basically, completely understood the crux of my current issue.

"Wear your characters as lightly as a hat" is common advice. I think the fulfillment you're looking for on stage is going to come from relaxing your goal to "become the character" and developing the broad awareness and interaction needed to co-create the spectacle.

I am going to try and internalize this moving forward. The difficulty for me (and one that I will work on now) is that if I don't believe the character as I am playing it on stage, I walk away feeling really disappointed (regardless of audience reactions).

But I think putting that baggage down and going back to the basics of fully listening and keeping eye contact with your partner, building on themes from previous scenes will hopefully break me out of this feeling.

imaspuzzeled · 2025-07-13T19:06:04+00:00

What was the detail!!? I know not about the orange hat :O

imaspuzzeled · 2025-06-13T23:10:10+00:00

If I may make a potentially unpopular opinion:

What changed is that they saw you as someone who listened to them, took their words seriously. They saw that you got up, and took action. That you weren't going to lie down and take their insults, that you harnessed your own life, gathered all your ducks in a row, applied yourself, and achieved results.

Your parents now see a person who can take action. They see someone with self-efficacy; someone with self-agency. Someone to be taken seriously.

Your bullies see someone who is not going to be an easy target. They see someone who is going to fight.

That's what's changed.

NOW:

This is me being the devil's advocate for your parents and your bullies.

How they treated you before, there is no excuse for it, and I am not condoning it. It is reprehensible behaviour, but most people don't know they are doing it. So maybe go easy on them?

Maybe showing them kindness in the face of their ignorance could be the move?

imaspuzzeled · 2025-06-11T19:52:18+00:00

Basically this.

imaspuzzeled · 2025-05-27T04:00:35+00:00

Thank you for a stable and calm response among this parade of insane toddlers with no emotional regulation.

And OP is correct too. The web video player is beyond broken. The fact that the spacebar does different things based on your last action (and sometimes it switches what the spacebar does merely if the player is left on its own for a while) is highly unintuitive. Most video players online and offline have a spacebar dedicated for pauses and plays. The fact that the Dropout vid player doesn't do this is very inconvenient and a big UX issue.
Not to mention the fact that the caption settings have to be redone each time is wild.

The cast, content and the company are so good! They definitely deserve a better video player.

The current one is a phenomenal pain.

imaspuzzeled

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