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  1. Percy Thrillington
    November 26th, 2008 7:53 AM
    Percy Thrillington
    No, I definitely wasn't expecting an answer like that. That's not to say it wasn't a good reply, though.

    So, to respond to your separate sentences:

    You're welcome.

    Really? I don't recall you ever making yourself look unintelligent in any of your posts I've seen.

    No, not at all. I don't judge people until I get to know them better.

    And yes, you were wrong. Good to see that some people can accept the fact that they make mistakes.

    I'm alright. Meant to be revising geography, but I don't want to think about the Spanish inquisition for now so I'm just killing time.

    And yes. Odd. I thought I had less than five hundred.
  2. Percy Thrillington
    November 26th, 2008 6:27 AM
    Percy Thrillington
    Hey, An-chan. Just realised we haven't really talked before and decided to drop you a visitor message. What's up?
  3. Post Office Buddy
    November 26th, 2008 5:36 AM
    Post Office Buddy
    Lol, bring on the stalkers. If we catch 'em then we can set our Sentrets with flamethrowers and our Chanseys with chainsaws on them XD

    I happen to have 2GB of RAM (Yay for graduation gifts!), so I really have no trouble running Vista, it's more a matter of what features are only there to clutter up my screen and what I actually want to have. I did get rid of the sidebar for a while, but the giant customizable clock and the puzzle boxes kind of grew on me. I love a good puzzle, and who can't love a cat-like clock named "Your Mother"?

    I'm much too lazy to mess with the security settings in Vista, but the only time I have really had to allow anything is when Avast! updates or I decide to play Frets on Fire or whatnot. Java applications usually require me to press that allow button as well, but I can live with that. Considering I spend most of my time on my computer now either here, writing, or researching for my fictions, I rarely ever run into that security pop-up issue.

    I was never really a fan of XP to begin with. The only things I prefer in XP over this is the network controls and stuff like that. I had grown used to messing with network devices in XP, and they changed a lot of stuff in that area when they made Vista. They wanted the network to be more secure for Vista computers, I guess. Still rather annoying, though.

    Yes, thank Odin that the character limit has been removed. (Note: I don't really worship Viking Gods, I just enjoy referencing them from time to time XD) It would really suck to have to split each of these posts up to actually keep up with the conversation.

    The difference in systems of measurement is quite unfortunate, and also the driving issues. I mean, why can't every country stick to a single standard of measurement for everything instead of confusing the entire world with five different ways to measure the same thing? (exaggeration, but oh well). It makes it particularly hard for people like us who live in completely different parts of the world (well, in terms of continents. We pretty much occupy the same Lattitudes) that have stuck to opposite forms of measurement our entire lives. This problem is only in length and temperature I believe, though. I'm fairly certain that America goes by the SI units for volume and mass (obviously, as I don't think there are other measurements of mass). That is, unless Finland doesn't measure anything by the gallon? I'm a little rusty on my SI st00f considering the last science class I was in was during my Junior year of High School (circa 2006).

    I agree. I have aspirations to be a published author someday, and if we are both to become famous, then we need to conspire to publish these before it's too late. Hmm, I wonder how International Copyright Laws work in this case?

    In the case of this novel, we should also throw in random allusions to a vampire boy falling in love with a human girl (LOL!) The funny thing about that, though, is that I actually went to see the movie this past weekend with my sister and fiance. And, it pains me to say this, it was okay. However, I thought that if they were to use a character from Harry Potter, than it should have been Daniel Radcliff instead of the guy that played Cedric Diggory. I just couldn't help but make jokes about him the entire movie.

    One example of such a joke was in a serious part of the movie. Edward had told Bella that she should just go, and they had argued about that for a time, then he says to her, all serious, "Where would I go?" This, of course, was followed by a response from me that was along the lines of "You could go to Hogwarts." My fiance had a hard time stiffling a giggle when I made that remark.

    Ahhhh!!!!! Conspiracy! Conspiracy! I think they actually proved the link between the twin tower attacks: the time of the day, the date of the attacks, and the Emergency number of the US. I mean, doesn't that seem like waaaayyy too many coincidences to occur in one terrorism attack?

    Another thing about conspiracy theorys: a (former) friend of mine seems convinced that the US presidential election was a set up to assassinate Barrack Obama and, I quote, "show those [African American's] there place!" (I replaced a much harsher word with African American because I find the other word way too offensive and am uncomfortable even quoting it.) He even went so far as to suggest that John McCain is a member of the Ku Klux Klan and lost the election on purpose. He then tried to shove his intolerant views on me, which was that African Americans are an "inferior" race. I rejected this philosophy, however, and I haven't talked to him since.

    Mine actually just did the update request again. I set mine to go off in every hour in hopes that I will have crashed by then, but so far no luck. Oh well, should happen soon.

    I actually don't consume too much caffeine anymore, to be honest. I don't drink energy drinks at all, and I only drink soft drinks with light amounts of caffeine. I really don't know what is messing with my sleep >=[ And don't worry too much; I have no plans of dying until I publish at least six books. Maybe seven. Seven sounds like a good number. Of course, I could just go up to 666 books and quit there XD

    So far, the only fic I have finished was that One-Shot, but that doesn't really count. The first fiction I ever wrote was a Pokemorph fiction in fourth grade that was extremely generic and, to be honest, stupid. I have no idea what possessed me to even think I could get away with writing that.

    The second fic I ever wrote was a generic, extremely cliched OT where the main character started off in Kanto along with his cousin (I used both mine and my cousins names for the main characters, actually) and basically followed the paths of the games. It was poorly written, however, and involved the capturing of several legendary Pokemon, the worst of which was an Entei in chapter three, before I discontinued it because of the death of my cousin. I discontinued it after probably seven or eight chapters, and couldn't bring myself to write any more in it after my cousin died.

    The third fic I wrote is actually the Fall of Light. I took quite a break between that OT fic and this one. It started off pretty bad, actually, but I have revised it several times to fix many, many obvious errors. I'm still not satisfied, but I'm going to wait to do a complete revision until I have finished it.

    My One-shot was next, followed several months later by a fiction I wrote only a prologue of in September I think and haven't updated since, and Affliction soon followed. I plan on rotating through them to keep them all updated regularly, however, so that none get too neglected. Next up is Apocolypse XD

    I actually forgot that you asked me about the parody. I'm still chugging along at that. Still stalking PFF regulars and memorable writers to figure out how to best portray them. I have done little more than take notes so far, and will probably start characterizing people pretty soon. I had thought that the parody would be done by now, but I guess I set too short of a time limit on myself.

    As for staying up late, I have survived five nights in a row playing an online game. This was sixth grade, mind you, and the best I have done since is two nights, probably around 50 hours. Yeah, I'm a little insane XD

    I think this could be like two chapters here lol
  4. Post Office Buddy
    November 26th, 2008 4:28 AM
    Post Office Buddy
    Eh, still alive so far. I'll probably crash pretty soon though, as I ran out of any beverage containing any amount of caffeine hours ago.

    I have heard plenty good about Opera, but I have also heard that the interface is quite different from IE or Firefox. I'll download it and experiment until I either get the hang of it or get tired of it, but I still would prefer Firefox :(

    As far as I've seen, it's possible. It takes a little bit of work and the patience to endure several possible reinstallations until you do it right, but the outcome is worth it. At one point I have XP, Vista, and Ubuntu dual-booting on my laptop. I ended up messing it up, however, and had to reinstall them again. I decided that I didn't care much for XP anymore at that point and only reinstalled Vista and Ubuntu.

    Vista works fine if you have the corporate edition like I have. Sure, the security is a little ridiculous, but they wanted to make sure that unsigned programs had a harder time accessing your computer without your permission. As long as you take the time to learn how to get around the security features (or not to accidentally bypass them, for that matter) then it becomes a lot easier to use.

    I'm a little surprised that the U.S. hasn't switched over to the SI system yet. Just about every other major country in the world is doing it, so we should at least conform in that way. Seriously, would it be that much harder to measure in centimeters or celsius? However, I must admit that the origin of the "foot" is quite interesting. Some British king (I forgot which one, and I think he was British) commanded that the standard unit of length would be one third of the length of his arm, which measured to be thirty-six inches. So that thirty-six divided by three equals twelve (obviously), which set the unit of length to that. My history lesson of the day, I guess.

    Yeah, I think we should write a novel based on our VM's. Each message could be one chapter XD We could call it An-chan and POB: Behind the Scenes or something like that.

    Lol, if we were to write a novel based on our VM's then it would have to include the source of the humour behind the "by the ways", or at least a reference to it in some way XD This would be with the permission of the girl that wrote those storys, of course (by the way, I hear she writes Star Wars pairings and whatnot now? :o)

    Yeah, it's now about 7:20 at my time of typing this sentence. 7:21, to be exact. Our number for emergency is quite easy actually; it's just 911. I wonder, is the number in Finland the same, or is it different?

    Gahh, Windows keeps wanting to update. Blast you, Microsoft! *shakes fist into the air angrily.* I don't think we should include that in the novel. The Microsoft evil cyborg-monkeys will hunt and kill us if we do.

    I, too, hope that I get over this insomnia. I have only been able to sleep well one night in the past three weeks, and I was up north at the time. Well, further north than I live anyway, which is actually in more of southern Michigan than northern. Lol, random, redundant tangent that had no real point. I am definitely tired.

    But yeah, if I don't answer or appear inactive, then I probably just crashed. It's about my body's self-proclaimed bed time anyway (why, body, why!?!) Just gotta see if anyone has reviewed my latest chapter yet. I'm actually very anxious about that, considering it's the first chapter I have posted in that fiction since June =\

    But, hey, at least I'm active on that one again and am that much closer to finishing it :D
  5. Post Office Buddy
    November 26th, 2008 3:33 AM
    Post Office Buddy
    I'm sure you won't always be a n00b with grammar. I mean, you're progressing well enough already. It's really just a matter of time with that aspect of English.

    Actually, I was using Windows, but I had already partitioned my hard disk before it had crashed, so I had an empty partition I had previously planned to use for Linux (more precisely, knoppix at the time), and I hoped that just using that partition would allow me to recover my files. Sadly, it did not work. So (most of) everything is lost forever ;_;

    As for two different Windows OS's being on the same hard disk, that is perfectly possible as far as I have seen. I've dual-booted XP and Vista on one hard disk without any trouble. I think you just have to partition the drive before installing the second OS (whichever that may be.) Also, when I installed Windows again, a boot menu would appear asking me which Windows version I wanted to boot. Whenever I chose the corrupted one, however, it still had the same error. I was supposed to be able to fix it, but I guess Windows doesn't like to be fixed since it wouldn't rewrite the data it was missing.

    Ooooohhhhhh. I see why Astinus was unusually harsh the other day. I feel a lot of sympathy for her now. I know how much it sucks to lose so much stuff that took you a long time to get. I feel even worse about my post in the FFL now...

    I'm not entirely sure about the size pages we use. I think it's like 8.5" x 11.5" or something. Not entirely sure about the 11.5" though. That may require a bit of research. To the Googlemobile! (Yeah, cheesey I know.)

    I can't even run Firefox on my computer. It keeps saying something like "That process is already running" whenever I try to open it. I've tried a clean install and everything, too. I've even looked at my process list, but it's NOT THERE! So I'm stuck with IE for the time being, which works alright as long as I don't get any viruses. And I have Avast! making sure I stay virus-free :D
  6. Post Office Buddy
    November 26th, 2008 2:45 AM
    Post Office Buddy
    If I were you then I would get the shortest out of the way first. I just checked how many pages my old fic is and discovered that, although it is over fifty pages, it's actually eighty-four pages long! I knew I had written a lot, but holy crap!

    I also get inspiration while walking around. I think it might be because your body is able to do the task of walking from point 'a' to point 'b' without too much brainpower involved, so your mind is free to wander as it pleases. Therefore, random thoughts pop in your head and give you amazing ideas for fictions (usually). That's also my theory on the shower thing.

    I know all about losing original fiction. I had actually been working on something I hoped to publish earlier this year, around Febuary I believe, and was getting close to page sixty when my old computer decided to die. It wasn't a hardware issue, surprisingly. My OS just suddenly deleted a key component and wouldn't even boot without it. I thought just reinstalling the OS to a new partition of the hard disk would solve all of my problems, but alas it did not work. I ended up deleting everything on the damned thing and lost that fiction, along with over five gigabytes of nonreplacable music and a game I had been developing for over a year. When that happened my face went from :D to :| to :o to :( to ;_;

    I have since begun rewriting my original fiction, but the game... that's lost forever. It's so hard to even begin development on a game, let alone try to recreate it. Besides, a lot of the things I had put into it had taken months to iron out, and I have no idea how to do that again without going through the entire process again. Either way, it will never be the same.

    And your opinion is interesting because you seem to have good insight into plot, which I consider to be as important, if not even more so at times, than grammar.
  7. Post Office Buddy
    November 26th, 2008 1:28 AM
    Post Office Buddy
    Apparently I get insane amounts of inspiration in the shower. When I was taking one today, I suddenly had this irresistable urge to finish chapter 11 of the first fic I had posted here. Maybe I should take like five showers a day from now on...

    Oh, btw, you should read that and tell me what you think. Your opinion on fictions is usually quite interesting.
  8. Venia Silente
    November 25th, 2008 5:38 PM
    Venia Silente
    Time is not an issue, An-chan. It will give me some more time to develop the story so you can have something better to draw :D --- Just let me know when you start drawing. Oh and happy very early Xmas!
  9. DGexe
    November 25th, 2008 4:25 PM
    DGexe
    XDD W-wow.

    Hehe, I'm the opposite-ish. I was never very good in Spanish. At most, I got Cs on average; then again, I hated that language. No offense to any Spanish speakers who may read this, but it is not my favorite language. I was required to learn it, and my folks wouldn't let me take French... ironic, since I have a French speaking character. Anyway.

    Los Angelos? Dangit, I'm only a few hours from there, which means I don't visit LA often. Ah well; if I meet him, I'll tell him you said "hello".... and laugh to myself if I have the wrong Finnish man. *slapped*

    And I make that mistake all the time. I watch this show on and off on YouTube called Mock the Week, where these comedians play games and poke fun in a comedy-show manner at current events. The host on there is Irish, and one of the recurring members is Scottish. Much to the dislike of a friend of mine who lives in Britain, I used to mix up Scottish and Irish accents a lot. Now, I don't do it so often. British on the other hand... according to that same friend, there are various British accents, as is the case with American ones. Thanks to my being American and all, I can't pick those differences out easily when listening to British people speak.

    Oh well! I still like those accents! *nodnods*
  10. DGexe
    November 25th, 2008 4:09 PM
    DGexe
    Oh really? Where in California, if I may ask? ... That'd be odd if we knew each other, now that I think on that... oo Ahem, anyway! Why Texas? Because I lived there almost all of my life (so far), and I love it. The humity wasn't that great, but it wasn't dusty or icky... They can make a mean chilli in Texas, and we freaking know how to barbarque! *nodnods*

    xD I wish I had an Irish accent-- I apparently still have my southern accent from living in Texas, but it's not as notciable now as it once was. I have no idea why you're telling me this either; maybe it's because my thicker accent for Father Anderson sounds more Scottish than Irish... ? Darn my being an American! It all sounds different to me, but I can't mimic it in my writing. Phooey.

    And I have that issue with the Spanish language; as part of our lessons, we had to listen to people talk and then do worksheets on them. They always spoke so darn fast to me that it all went right over my head as well and left me all "wtf?"ish. D:
  11. Weblegende
    November 25th, 2008 12:57 PM
    Weblegende
    Hey! I think we are in a social group together... =]
  12. Mira
    November 25th, 2008 12:00 PM
    Mira
    Hi! I've seen you post around the fan fiction area and I just wanted to say hi, so... hi!
  13. Ninja Caterpie
    November 24th, 2008 1:40 AM
    Ninja Caterpie
    You da Vaporeon again!:D
  14. Venia Silente
    November 23rd, 2008 5:00 PM
    Venia Silente
    Ah D*** it--- what a shame! :D One-month windows is closed. Sorry, An-chan, didn't manage to comment your epilogue in time.
  15. Venia Silente
    November 23rd, 2008 3:32 PM
    Venia Silente
    Oh great, first Chanseys with chainsaws and now Sentrets with flamethrowers! My week is turning into a hell :D

    I don't remember having posted any comment to your fic (shame on ME!!!!!11), so I might do soon if the one-month open thread window hasn't expired. I had commented to you, via PM I think, how it turned out there were several similarities between your Rapidash and Ivysaur and my Rapidash and Ivysaur. And something about a huge conspiracy started by KFC, I think...

    Anyways. I liked JttIoJ a lot, it was quite funny to read, partially because of the Pokémon personalities (Rapidash and Pichu are pure win) and partly because of the setting that smartly plays with some clichés. That work of yours is in my fav'ed list.

    Hey... at least this will keep me safe from the Sentrets for a while... right? RIGHT??????

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