Which forum, aside from D&D, do you enjoy the most on PC?
Bleh, I've actually been awful at replying to threads in there lately and I feel reallllly bad about that, haha. Anyway - my favourite forum would be either this one or HQ. This forum's taken off brilliantly and I think that's great because it's full of interesting people talking about interesting things. And I like that! I like being interested in people and I like people getting to know me (kinda), so it's smiles all round! As for HQ, I guess it's more straightforward. Despite there being occasional drama, losing votes, etc., I love being able to directly help out with almost any decisions effecting the entire community. Plus it's ingrained in me, as ex-D&D mod, to like debating things with people. d:
What do you look for the most in a potential moderator?
Oh God, how long have you got, haha. I look at a good number of things when considering someone for a mod position; activity in heirt specific forum, post quality, how friendly they seem, general attitude, how wide a range of sections they post in, etc. But the main thing that I really look for is evidence that they've shown some sort of initiative within the section where they're being considered or, failing that, elsewhere. I'll happily vote for a less active member who brings a lot to their section aside from posts without being prompted to over a member with far more activity who just goes with the flow. Initiative, for me, sits right at the heart of what makes a great moderator and a member who shows that right off the bat is a very strong candidate in my view.
I don't know why, but it seems like you struggle with being Irish living in England, and it sometimes confuses me on what to think of you as. Would you rather live in Ireland? And that in mind, what is your accent?
Heh, I do struggle with that quite a lot. For reference I much much much prefer to be thought of as Irish, despite how long I've lived here for. And as far as the whole where to live thing goes... if I could essentially copy/paste my life over to Ireland I totally would but as it stands, I've too much going on here in England. Right now I'd be pretty much content with going back there just to visit for a short while but that's not actually possible at the moment; in the future, idk, I guess I'd like to go back to live there again. I've always felt more attached to Ireland than England, definitely. But it's all about logistics and money and blahblahblah. Only time - and a lot of it - will tell, I guess!
As for my accent, it's weird. The English call it Irish and the Irish call it English. I guess it'd be sensible to just say that it's fairly English but quite often I'll say things which come out reallllllly Irish and I use a number of Irishisms (that's a word now) which I've picked up from family and whatnot. Give me alcohol though and I am magically full Irish with my accent. B)
I know from our PC Radio sessions that your music taste is pretty eclectic (but fantastic), but what would you consider your favorite artist and why?
I've spent a long time thinking about this and a few weeks back I actually came up with an answer. ...then I thought about it again and came up with a different one. I guess it's fair to say that I don't have a favourite artist that really sticks, but rather I change my favourite artist just depending on what I feel I'm into at the time. So honestly, my answer to this question changes like the weather. And in England, that's a helluvalot. d:
Would you ever consider being cryogenically frozen if you die? And what do you personally think of this concept? Do you feel that, at some point in time, that we'll be able to bring someone from the deep past back by freezing their body?
I'm not gonna pretend to know about if cryogenics can be used to preserve life or not. I know some organisms are able to survive at incredibly low temperatures such as
tardigrades, which can sit just above 0K and survive that, and those animals may have a chance but as it stands I don't get how it'd work in humans. But that's literally because I've never looked into it and to me the actual biology behind a frozen human seems like it could never work. Maybe it theoretically could, idk, but I'm not able to give you an answer. Sorry about that!
As for the concept of it, I like it a lot more than cloning. At first I felt like we should just let nature do its thing but we... already stop that with medicine itself, so go ahead, I guess. Of course I don't think it'd ever be feasible but if in some magical and imaginary world it
was to be made feasible, I guess I'm okay with that. I'd not like it for me, though. I don't really wanna live longer than my time. Call me weird for that if you want to. d:
Why don't you understand that Magical Leaf is the superior move?
I'm in denial and like to pretend that the franchise ended after the second generation. 8)
What was your IRL reaction to being asked to become a super moderator?
I was never actually asked, per se; I was just thrown into a (weirdly convincing against others that I've seen) higher staff multiconvo, we were chatting along, then I loaded PC and had like 8x my normal number of reports out of nowhere which confused the hell out of me. So I guess that'd be my reaction! I was just sat there staring at my computer screen like "..........okay wut just happened" followed by excessive babbling, much to the others' amusement. I didn't scream or run around in excitement or anything like that but I remember having those "oh my god has this really just happened" butterflies in my stomach and yeah, just sat here confused haha. To anyone watching at me I probably looked like I'd just received some terrible news that I'd not come to terms with or something like that.
do the people around your area tuck their tracksuit bottoms into their socks and look like hell as well??
we don't acknowledge those. But actually, not as much as I thought. My area of Manchester is so heavily populated by students and adults that you don't see too many people like that. It's actually way nicer than I ever imagined as far as the people go. Based totally off appearances, anyway!
also how is your relationship going with that girl sorry idr her name :(( was it becky or something??
Ahaha, yeah, it's Becky. We actually broke up a couple of months back but we're still on decent terms I guess so that's nice. It was definitely fun while it lasted!
