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Why [i]shouldn't[/i] we be [u]Team Argo[/u]? We are, if you all will allow me to disgustingly philosohpical for a moment, on a quest, not for Golden Fleece, but for winning the game and title of OtakuBoards Survivor. The Argo was a strong ship and allowed for a successful journey. It was built with the help of Athena, goddess of wisdom and strategic war. Our team leader [b]Kathy[/b] seems like a wise person to me, and aren't we going to to be fighting it out for the winning position? I think Argo fits, I like it, and I don't think anyone should doubt why it's a good name for us.
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To avoid all the Matrix-ish original discussion: Why am I here? Because a dreamchild by the name of Latharix told me to. (Although she hasn't been active in a while.)
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Well, I did like the name "The Family," even if it was a bit plain. [u]Team Sitcom[/u] doesn't sound half bad to me. Or maybe something like [u]Team Extended[/u], because we're an extended family that plans to be here for an extended amount of time. That's all that really comes to mind at the moment, unless you want more odd words like [i]xenomancy[/i]. But I'll keep thinking on it. ____________ Oops. Forgot the questions. [b]Tell us about a fun trip you took.[/b] It was a short trip, just a couple counties up to Nashville, Tennessee, but the last week of July, the week before I started high school a couple years back, my mom and I went to see comedian Jerry Seinfeld. We always like to have plenty o extra time on trips, so we left a couple of hours early. Well, it was a good thing we did, because on the highway at seventy miles per hour, the left front tire blew out. It went completely to shreds, and we were lucky we didn't lose control of the car. We changed the tire ourselves, something neither of us had ever done before. And then, we got safely to Nashville to see a hilarious comedian, so the trip was both fun [i]and[/i] exciting. [b]Do you play/enjoy video games, and if so, what are your five favorites?[/b] Video games are my passion. Oddly enough, my writing is more inspired by video games than other books. I usually go with RPGs which suck up my life. For instance, I played all the way through Tales of Symphonia at eighty hours per file about three times. What? I swear I don't have an addiction. 1: The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX 2: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 3: Tales of Symphonia 4: Sword of Mana 5: Pokemon Gold
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I vote for Two. I like the golden fleece idea, therefore two. But both are lovely, [b]Zeke[/b], thanks for making them.
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I ended up getting the GameCube version as a belated Christmas gift. I've had it for a couple of weeks. Needless to say, I'm in love with it. Heck, for the last week of creative writing class, most of my poetry has been Twilight Princess themed. Midna is endlessly more helpful than Navi, and she doesn't usually say anything unless [i]I[/i] talk to [i]her[/i]. (Which means I can wander around completing sidequests, or just wander, without being interrupted every five minutes.) She's quickly become one of my favorite characters, and I love her "voice." Currently, I need some help for the Snowpeak. I'm trying to [spoiler]snowboard (leafboard?) down to the yetis' house, but I keep falling off the cliff at the narrow jumps after the path goes in a semi-circle curve.[/spoiler] I know that's not a very clear description, but any advice for either that specific point (if you know where I'm talking about) or just how best to go down the path in general would be greatly appreciated. I'm tired of falling off cliffs. :animeswea
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[B]What sort of design elements would you like to see in our flag?[/B] Well, for text, something thats pretty but clean. For instance, [b]Zeke's[/b] banner has a stylish font, but it's easily read. You all will probably kill me for suggesting this, especially since this is OB [i]Survivor[/i], but I think it would be cute to have some small image of a sheep/ram, tying into our name and our color. (Or it can be a fierce angry ram if you want.) Anything, though, is good with me. Like [b]Aaryanna_Mom[/b], I'd also be happy with something simple and abstract. [B]What board games or card games are your favorites?[/B] For board games, I really like Clue/Cluedo. It can be hard to find enough people for it sometimes, but for me it's the perfect balance between skill and chance. Plus, I really like the film based on the game. For card games, I like solitaire or a nice game of blackjack. [B]What is your favorite color?[/B] Without a doubt, it's blue, from the glowing dark blue of twilight to the bright azure on the OB layout. It's a common favorite color, but I love it and all of its shades. Lately though, I find myself being split between blue and green, because I'm writing a story where the main character is obsessed with the latter color. So I'm especially pleased by shades of teal. [quote name='Aaryanna_Mom']As for another question, I?ll have to think about that.[/quote] I'll edit when there's a question. :animesmil Until then: [b]What superpower would you most like to have?[/b] I'd enjoy some sort of flying power. It doesn't matter if I could fly with wings or some sort of levitation, I'd be happy floating aound, doing flips midair, rescuing cats from trees. All that lovely stuff.
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I think a lot of this depends upon how you define "marriage." And no, I'm not referring to the gender aspect specifically. There are couples who go to a church and get married there. There are also people who just get their marriage certificate. The fact that atheists can get married in the eyes of the law says to me that "marriage" is a legal contract stating two people are agreeing to be together. That might be a blunt way to put it, but if legal marriage has nothing to do with religion, only the decision of two adults, I see no reason why gay people can't be married.
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[b]Kathy[/b], congratulations, I think you're going to be an awesome captain. By the way, I love [i]Murder She Wrote[/i], too! (I'm just always amazed how no one ever notices that a murder happens wherever Jessica Fletcher goes. :catgirl: ) As for Team Names - The Unmistakables, hmm, [b]Shade[/b]? - I like the suggestion of [u]Team Argo[/u] the best, since I'm such a mythology buff. The name really has a nice ring. Unmistakables, although I'm happy for the reference, would be a little long. [u]The Family[/u] would be my second choice. My ears are agreeing with it. For color, I perfer [color=Green]Green[/color] over [COLOR=DarkOrange]Dark Orange[/COLOR], but either one of those would be fine. For the other questions, it's the previous post. [b]If you could take a trip to any one place in the world, where would you want to go and why?[/b] Most of my friends would expect me to say Japan, but recently, I've wanted so badly to go to France. I'm hoping to learn French within the next year or two, and maybe go there as an exchange student someday. France has such beautiful countryside, and there are so many gorgeous historical buildihngs and structures, like the Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, the Louvre, and, of course, the Eiffel tower. [b]What is your Residual Self Image (RSI)?[/b] A harmless-seeming child sitting in a chair, unnoticed by most, but able to make an impression on people after talking to them one-on-one for awhile. [b]What is your favorite animal?[/b] Definitely the cat. All species of feline are beautiful to me. Some think cats are solitary and unloving, but I've never found this true personally. My cats (I have five
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[B]What do you do for fun outside of the internet?[/B] There's a life outside of internet? Seriously though, reading, writing, and video games fill my time. Like Zeke, I like the personal things, where you can make our own decisions without worrying too much about other people. Right now, although I don't know if most would count this as fun, I'm working on my mock trial case. (I'm a lawyer on my team.) We got it in November, and the competition where we play out the trial against other schools is in February. It's hard work, but by the time we compete, it's well worth it. You never know what the other team's going to try, and since this year's case is murder with an insanity defense, it's going to be interesting. [B]What is your favorite season, and why?[/B] Fall would definitely be my favorite. The clear blue skies are just gorgeous, there's that little stretch of the time where the air is comfortably chill, and, of course, the leaves are gorgeous. [B] Are there any odd tricks you've discovered you can pull off?[/B] (Something like touching your eyeball--you know, the cool gross things. :p ) Being the kind of child that knows better than to touch the pretty fire, yet always wants to, I just tried to touch my eyeball. It turns out I can. New question: [b]If you could take a trip to any one place in the world, where would you want to go and why?[/b]
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Hello, my lovely team. I'm kalon, a teenager with way too much time on her hands, a Legend of Zelda obsession, and a tendency to be random enough to scare people. I spend a whole lot of my time reading rare word dictionaries, and I'm writing a novel. Neil Gaiman and Lewis Carroll are my favorite authors, so it's a given that I love [i]Alice's Adventures in Wonderland[/i] and [i]The Sandman[/i] series. I'm free thinking, stubborn as the mules my town holds a holiday for (spring break in Columbia Tennessee is centered around when Mule Day falls), and try my best to get along with people. Ironically, I'm shyer about approaching people on the internet than I am in real life. Which is why I'm here, hoping to get to know everyone better. I'm a bit under the weather right now, having just been sent home from school, but I'll be fine to participate. For a name, I adore the word [i]Xenomancy[/i]. It's a noun meaning, to quote the Luciferous Logolepsy dictionary, "fortunetelling by studying the first stranger that appears." It just strikes my fancy. I'm not sure about Team Captain. [b]Allamorph[/b] is the only person here I've ever interacted with, and I'd definitely follow him if he wanted to be leader. Maybe we could make it like school student elections and anyone who wants to be captain can give us a speech? I like [color=DarkOrchid]Dark Orchid[/color] as a color. It's one that people seem to ignore, but I feel it's pretty. And [b]Zeke[/b], I think it would be great if you'd do our flag after we pick a color/name. I love your spiffy Mello set. (I've only read up to volume five, so I haven't officially met Mello yet.)
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I don't think I've ever heard a single reason other than religion why two people of the same gender cannot enjoy all the benefits heterosexual couples enjoy. Never. Not once. Because in a society where citizens are given equal rights, there's not a single reason why two consenting adults, regardless of gender, should not be allowed to get married. If you abolish it for homosexuals, then it's only fair to ban all straight people from getting married, too. Besides, you'd think that marriage would fall into the whole "pursuit of happiness" category. You know, the whole unalienable rights deal. I'm moving to Canada when I grow up.
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Meh. I'm not really interested in boys (or girls, for that matter) and no one is interested in me. So, my mom will probably be the only person to give me something. I might buy some of those dollar packs of Valentine's cards that we used to give out to everyone in class in elemntary school. I'd always liked that tradition. Of course, considering I'm in high school and see several hundred people during the day, I'd probably only give them to my friends.
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It made me so disappointed when the original darker stories gave way to card matches like the anime. the sotry was still pretty good, and I love the art style, but I've terribly missed the earliest volumes when there was still the psychological horror aspect. I swear, [spoiler]killing gang members by dropping a tazer in a puddle of water and electrocuting them[/spoiler] was one of the cruelest deaths I've ever seen. I don't care for any heart of the cards compared to Yami's practically evil original personality.
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[quote name='NIKI12345']No my mom wouldn't be able to get a guy that my mom could cheat with from how old she is.[/quote] First, sweetie, people can cheat and have relationships no matter how old they are. Just because your parents seem old (or if they are actually pretty high in years) does not mean they can't find another adult to have some sort of relationship with. Ever hear of J. Howard Marshall? Second, if your mother tells you she's leaving your family only because you didn't pick up some cups, she's using you as an excuse and as an object of blame. That's it. Unless they were some sort of antique china teacups her grandfather died retrieving from a burning house and his last words were "Take care of the teacups!", then it's not really the cups. You just have to reconcile with the fact that your mother is not just a mother, but a person. If she blames you, then it's her problem.
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Say the girl does, by some miracle, get a treatment that allows her brain to function like everyone else's, then she could get cosmetic surgery done on her breasts, and she could adopt. But at the moment, where there is no possible hope for her, the best thing they can do is let her live as comfortably as possible. Breasts can be uncomfortable, and I don't know if you've ever had a period, but there is a good deal of pain involved for some women, pain that a baby's mind could not possibly comprehend except as [i]pain[/i]. But, if you read the aticle, the girl, like most any baby, [i]can[/i] kick her arms and legs, so while she might not be able to use them for anything other than just moving, she can still use them. Parents make medical decisions for their children in an effort to keep the child [u]both[/u] as comfortable and whole as possible. While there's no possible solution to satisfy everyone, they've done their best to reach a livable middle ground, one that keeps their daughter as healthy and happy as the condition allows while still allowing her to be as functional as possible.
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Writing Veridan III: 4157 - third segment [M-V]
kalon replied to Allamorph's topic in Creative Works
[QUOTE=Allamorph][FONT=Arial]Honestly, I'm pretty much just copy-catting Joseph Conrad's style from [I]Heart of Darkness[/I]. He taught me how to use them just like Conan Doyle taught me how to think. If I'm wrong, though, please tell me. I like to provide reasons for my more complex irregularities, but that doesn't mean I won't change them.[/quote][/font] First of all, I'm beating my head on my desk because I called them commas and not (em) dashes, because i always make that mistake. Second of all, I always assumed the same rules applying to the use of commas separating unneeded phrases also applied to dashes. If you take out, for instance, an appositive set off by comas, and your sentence is a run-on, then it's not correct grammar. Say you had the following sentence: [i]I talked to John, a British man, John spoke in a fake Russian accent.[/i] You could, if desired, set off "a British man" using hyphens, but the sentence would still be a run-on. Joseph Conrad might have been using them for style, and really, I suppose there's no reason why you [i]can't[/i]. I just think it breaks the dash norm. (But I also copy some of my hyphen usage from Anne McCaffrey, and I'm only getting more confused about what you can and can't do with dashes as I type, and Wikipedia isn't helping. Ask your mom?) [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial']Yeah, in retrospect it seems a bit much. However, I kind of want everything up until "Fleet" connected, so I'll see how commas will fit in. If it still feels like I'm running out of breath, I'll ... I'll do something. (^_^)[/quote][/font] Go to an oxygen bar? [QUOTE=Allamorph][FONT=Arial]Exactly. I actually wanted that flat, "so, is there more?" feel to it. It's such a simple concept, and at the same time incredibly important. The original structure was this: [I]"He had a duty shift. The shift ended."[/I] I just didn't like it, so I altered it. Of course, there's always: [I]"His duty shift ended."[/I] If anyone can see something else better, I'm open to suggestion.[/quote][/font] In retrospect, I like it just fine, and I did figure you meant for it to be that way. I was just a tiny bit confused when I first read that sentence, which isn't that big of a deal, because I am easily befuddled. [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial']No. From what I have been able to reference, jet is a mineral formed under more pressure than coal but less than diamond, is the source of the phrase "jet-black", and can be polished to look like black glass.[/quote][/font] I'd always wondered how jet could be a shade of black. Being the silly child I am, I always assumed it had to do with exhaust from jet engines. [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial']Actually, if this weren't jazz you'd be right. However, in jazz, capitalization is the composer's discretion; if they capitalize everything, then everything is capitalized.[/quote][/font] Jazz is power. [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial]Speaking of seeing things, I actually included Mistfloor on a whim. I was looking over the planet in my mind and suddenly had this vision of an entire forest, calm, cool, quiet, with fog swirling constantly around my legs and shadowy creatures moving off to my left and right, just out of clear visual range, and I absolutely [I]had[/I'] to put it in.[/quote][/font] I'm glad it got to be there, because I like the idea of it. Although now, oddly, my mind is jumping to laser tag. [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial]You know, the kind that makes you inhale sharply, the kind that makes your heart jump, the kind that forces you to support yourself on someting close by. Kind of like the scene in LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring when Gandalf bends down and touches The Ring and there's that flash of Sauron's eye that made [U]everyone[/U'] jump.[/quote][/font] Best simile ever. [QUOTE=Allamorph][FONT=Arial]Thank you for your feedback, though that statement sounds rather cold. I'm absolutely elated that you can see what I'm writing, so I'm a good deal encouraged. Now, back to work....[/FONT][/QUOTE] As long as you work, I won't have to get out m' beatin' stick. -
It's imposible to judge the situation without knowing you, your mom, and the rest of your family. What I do know, however, is that your mom is a person, who has her own faults and screw-ups, and that it's not being a mother to lash out at your own child like that. IUt's highly likely that she's using you as an excuse, an easy way out. And by the way, mothers are human beings. They are far from perfect. They can be just as screwed-up as any other person on Earth. They make mistakes with their children, and there are reasons why organizations like Child Protective Services exist. There is no such thing as always being right.
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You know, [b]taperson[/b], I think you have found the best haiku ever. Um, [b]NIKI12345[/b], you had a few other syllable mistakes. In "Love," your first line had six syllables; in "Angel Girl," the first line is a syllable short; in "Friends," there were once again six syllables in the first line. Just try to say it in your head and count them if necessary. Other than that, I like the second one. It's sweet. Although, as sakurasuka said, it's all just creative expression.
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'Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the unicorn, 'if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'?Lewis Carroll, [i]Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There[/i] There are many things quotable within Carroll's writing, but that's probably my favorite. And for no apparent reason, I have a list of quotes involving dreams. They all seem sort of similar, which is odd, considering how different dreams are. Life, what is it but a dream??Lewis Carroll, ?Poem at Looking-Glass?s End? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.?Poe, ?A Dream Within a Dream? Life is just a dream, you know, that?s never ending.?Cowboy Bebop, ?Blue? Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams??Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ?The Higher Pantheism? For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.?Arthur William Edgar O?Shaughnessy, ?Ode?
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Aaryanna is my internet hero! I can see the fairy in a bottle now, too. (Hmm. I don't get to say that very often.) Thank you so much! And for once, I learned something on the internet that didn't scar my retinas. Oh, and Ezekiel, it is indeed a VG Cats Bottle Fairy.
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I want to change the picture in myO, but something wonky's going on. Every time I upload a picture from my computer and try to change it, it says "Your image has been uploaded." But it hasn't. I can change the captions, but not the image itself. (Which is why there is a picture of Vincent Valentine that says "zomg Bottle Fairy!" under it.) Any advice? Maybe it's my fault, because I'm technically inept, but I've tried it several times, with the message saying it was successful, and it wasn't. Is there even an option to completely remove the picture from the page somewhere?
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Writing Veridan III: 4157 - third segment [M-V]
kalon replied to Allamorph's topic in Creative Works
Bad before the good. Don't worry, there was a whole lot of good. [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial]After a few years spent as an enlisted man, with the higher-ups watching his every move, Jason?s application to the South Guard Military Academy had finally been accepted ? by this point Jason had grown mildly accustomed to being under constant surveillance [color=DarkOrchid]? given[/color'] the circumstances of his citizenship, which had been granted somewhat dubiously, he understood the government?s unease, but it still rankled him a little.[/quote][/FONT] I think, starting where it's highlighted in dark orchid (random color), it needs to be a separate sentence. If you read the whole thing without the hyphens, it doesn't make sense and is a run-on. [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial']After graduation (second in his class), Jason had been assigned to the Cirran Orbital Military Platform as a squadron leader for the fighters of the Andromeda Third Fleet under Brigadier General Ritya Loren, and it was here that he discovered two things about the military that made the whole six years worthwhile.[/quote][/FONT] Pixie knows, I have no right to comment on long sentences, but maybe if you added a comma after "Cirran Orbital Military Platform" it would pace it a little more slowly and be less to take in all at once. (Pot calling the kettle black here.) [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial']He had a duty shift, which ended.[/quote][/font] That sentence feels abrupt to me. With the sentences that follow, I understand the meaning, but when I first read it, I was confused about the context in which the shift ended. [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial]No more endless studying, no more days scheduled to a [color=DarkOrchid']?T? //snip[/color][/quote][/font] This is probably the most insignificant thing I could ever point out, but you don't need quotation marks around the T in this case. [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial']Apparently the government had decided that six years was enough time to prove whatever it was that he had needed to prove and he no longer needed to be babysat everywhere he went.[/FONT][/quote] Again, pot to kettle, but maybe add a comma after "he had needed to prove." [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial]And he still spent most of his free tim[color=DarkOrchid]e[/color'] on the station anyway.[/font][/quote] Add a letter. Because if it's really supposed to be "tim," I'll need more explanation about how tim is able to be spent. (It's just so rare to see you have a spelling mistake.) [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial]Called by many the Blue Planet of Andromeda [color=DarkOrchid]//snip[/color'][/font][/quote] I'm not certain, but I'm inclined to think the planet's nickname should be in quotation marks, especially since it's after "Called by." [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial]However, coal miners in the Black Mountains had inadvertently broken into a deep, extensive system of caverns composed almost entirely of [color=DarkOrchid]jet[/color'], and solid and red-, blue-, and white-streaked obsidian, and so the name stuck.[/quote][/font] Does there need to be a "black" after that "jet"? [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial]So the best he could do was walk through, talking, laughing, joining in the games ? which he was finally allowed to do on his third trip through Ridgeport [color=DarkOrchid]? it[/color'] had been understandably hard for the locals to grant him, the outsider, their trust, but he had not given up, and it had paid off.[/quote][/font] I think where I've colored it dark orchid you need to start it as an entirely new sentence. [quote name='Allamorph][FONT=Arial']The band had now switched to an old twentieth-century classic, ?The Girl From Ipanema?.[/quote][/font] Tiny, tiny thing: Change "From" to "from." Unless it's the beginning word, you don't capitalize preopsitions in titles. Lovely song, though. Now then. I loved this segment even more than the first. I enjoyed all the descriptions of Cirra, especially the Mistfloor Forest and the Black Mountains. I find myself wanting to actually go there; that's a good description. I'm also guessing whoever named the lake "Lake Placid" didn't know about the film. I can picture everything in my mind pretty well, but the most vivid was the description of Jason in "a nice coffeehouse in downtown Dahlia." For one, I love that name. All the small details Jason notices are great and easy to picture. Plus, I can relate to just sitting and people-watching, since I do that a lot. And then the way you break into the woman's testimony, how it's jut so matter-of-fact until you get to where Jason actually remembers some of it, is excellent. Even after the seriousness there, the media and the "vigilante" rumors made almost giggle (mainly because my mind jumped to Jason in a cowl with a butler and a Boy Wonder sidekick). It seems that even almost 2000 years later, the media still goes after the exact same subjects. It just shows that humanity, for better or worse, never really changes. It just gets more advanced ways of gossiping. On a less random note, I'm thinking the things in the back of his mind have something to do with the three speakers at the end of the second segment, but that's just a guess. My absolute favorite part of this was, oddly enough, the scattered words towarsd the end. To me, they feel like they're falling, scattered like debris or dust or ash. And I'm pretty certain they're about the Massacre of Kestrel Prime. That's all for now. Until next time! -
[font=Book Antiqua][color=Indigo]1. What name would you like to be used for you during this competition? [b]kalon[/b] would be dandy, but feel free to rename me, because I have also been named Robin, Axel, Rin, and even Juicebox by friends. 2. What is your age and gender? [b]Sixteen and female.[/b] 3. What country do you come from? [b]USA[/b] 4. What areas of OtakuBoards you consider as your strengths and weaknesses? (Choose one or two for both.) Strengths: [b]Creative writing/Literature[/b] and [b]RPGs[/b] Weaknesses: [b]Social Interaction[/b] and [b]Art/Graphics[/b] 5. Name one member of OtakuBoards that you consider your friend here. [b]Allamorph.[/b] He's a good writer, has the best knowledge of grammar I've ever seen on the internet, and gave me helpful Soul Calibur advice. An awesome person indeed. 6. What one thing would you take with you to a deserted island? A [b]banana[/b], because it's a good source of potassium. I would eat it. Then I would cry over its peel/corpse because I would be stuck on a desert island with no more food. But at least I would have had some cheery yellow for awhile. 7. Why do you want to participate to OtakuBoards Survivor 4? I've been on the OB for 10 months now, but I haven't had that much interaction with other members outside of a few forum posts. I'm sort of shy about approaching people, so I think an event like this would be a good way to get more involved in the Boards. So hopefully, if I get accepted, I can change social interaction from a weakness to a strength.[/color][/font]
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A quick question, if I may, to those who have played both the Gamecube and Wii versions: do you prefer one over the other? I, unfortunately, will not be able to get a Wii or either version of Twilight Princess until February. I'll just be listening to the soundtrack and staring at my pretty Twilight Princess posters and maybe reading a little bit of the strategy guide until I can actually play the game. My leaning is towards the Wii version, but as I have no firsthand experience, I'm guessing I can trust the advice of the OB members.
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2006 was an overall good year for me. I got my very first computer ([strike]strangles[/strike]hugs internet), which I absolutely adore. My dad started to act like a real father this year, which is shocking, but good. I have survived Algebra II, and will never have to see the horrible teacher for that class again. I made friendship bracelets and cookies. Not bad. My only real resolution is to write at least 150 more (quality) pages of my novel by the time 2008 rolls around. I will also try to pass Database and Design management in my fourth school quarter, because I have no idea what that even is because they just stuck me in there and it would mess with my schedule to much to be able to change it. And world domination. Watch out, OB members, because by 2008 I [i]will[/i] have taken over the world using my adorable trademarked [spoiler]Attack Kittens of Cuddly Doom Equipped with Avocado Lasers.[/spoiler] [size=1]Also, I plan to get help for that rambling problem which has just been exemplified above.[/size]