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A new decade is upon us

Journal Entry: Fri Jan 1, 2010, 3:24 PM
Ain't that cool. You can make some resolutions for the next ten years and be totally in sync with the rest of the world about the whole thing. In my personal life this last year has been sort of a grand finale to a decade fraught with non-personal shittery. I guess it's time to make the intention that this next set of ten years will be smoother ones. We can shed the old any time we want if we just decide to, but it's nice to know you are making a coordinated effort.

Me? I just ate some wax (downside of putting candles on the cake) so I'm going to kick off my new year with a good long vomit.

unrelated

I've had this on-off interest with Gaia very recently but then I remember that it'd be a disservice to the universe if I returned. While there's something to be said on forgiving your own transgressions, there's probably more to say about continuing to move forward, even if (especially if?) that means denying yourself a nostalgic indulgence. Also there is a sort of "what's the point" factor when you consider that you can have any item in the whole of Gaia with the little Tektek avatar simulator, for free.

But that really shows that the main draw of Gaia is not the avatar, though that's fun, but social interaction.

also the same with RPing. Am I trying to relive my childhood and so I'm being drawn to all that old stuff?

Was any of that worth mentioning in a journal? Probably not really. ugh I still want to puke so bad

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:iconlemming-exodus:
JOOBR AND I MET ON GAIA LOL 9u9 I haven't really done much on there in ages, though. The only place I really used to stick around was the Writers' Forum, pretending to be a cool kid by hanging out with the regulars, but I was like 13/14 so naturally I made an ass out of myself.

My account is Saraband if you want to say hello in that land of horrors, though! OuO
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:iconjoobr-the-jobbernowl:
i still go on gaia lol be my friend OwO
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:iconshonk-ness:
I never understood Gaia, I guess that was something I missed growing up. I joined probably not long ago (IDK I suck with time) just to see what all the fuss was about but nyeah, I didn't understand anything so I never went back. fuck did I used to love RPing though, well until everyone became snooty asses anyway. Still sometimes I find myself wanting to go back, but then I just tell myself that I procrastinate on shit enough and so move on to something else that I can use to just such :B
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:iconheysawbones:
*heysawbones Jan 1, 2010  Professional General Artist
Gaia was terrible. I was a mod there. It was terrible. I was the 592nd member, joined within the first week the site existed. Terrible. Terrible. Terrible.

RPing is great except that nearly everybody you can find who does it is intolerably head-up-ass crazy.

Terrible.
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:iconleaunoire:
You know this has nothing to do with that but I was in my Western Civ class and our professor was talking about how while the internet is a great social tool it doesn't seem to be inspiring much of a revolution in intelligent thinking, and this girl - and everyone has met this girl, you know her too, she is the one who wears the hats shaped like Tails from Sonic the Hedgehog even though she hasn't been 14 for years - was like "well I am on this website called Gaia Online and it's this giant forum site with a buttload of members and there is this one spot where people just discuss RLY IMPORTANT ISSUES so obviously the internet isn't all herp and derp Gaia online can get pretty deep man" and I just had this moment, sitting there in class, this moment of stunned silence.

You just go ahead and tell him about those tough issues on Gaia Online, Tailshat girl.


On RPing - it's either that or who, honestly, ever has the time to actually RP? You have to write 8 single spaced MS Word Processor pages every time your character picks their nose.
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:iconheysawbones:
*heysawbones Jan 1, 2010  Professional General Artist
Man dawg I never RP'd that way. I write in paragraphs, but I avoid purple prose because that's - that's bad writing no matter what. I don't want anything to do with excessive romantic descriptions, and I don't want to spend an hour telling some asshole what my asshole character is wearing. Still, it takes forever. I don't have time to do a whole lot of it. Sometimes that makes people pretty angry. What, I have - or want - to do other things like school or sleeping or drawing or pretty much anything that isn't this? Oh no!

As for Tailshat Girl, man, the sad thing is that the Internet has shaped the way people write fiction, collaborate, discuss, and all of that. But nobody's going to listen to that coming from Tailshat Girl, and not about Gaia Online.

herr herr Extended Discussion.
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:iconleaunoire:
AAH, that's so true. Paragraphs are nice, but people write fucking novels sometimes. With the orbs and the mandibles and the flowing tresses of ebony. I did that. It was short lived, but I did it. And you know, it wasn't much fun. And forget RPing over AIM, oh man. You know, the most fun I ever had RPing was when I was a barely literate 11 year old with some tragic goth character. It wasn't intelligent and it wasn't dignified, but at least I was keeping myself entertained.

Gaia online change me life. give me jorb, give me hope
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*heysawbones Jan 1, 2010  Professional General Artist
I prefer to RP over AIM, the text formatting is easier. Chat RP and forum RP both piss me the hell off. Someone on Gaia made the mistake of putting me in charge of their big guild RP and I ended up trolling it. Bad End. Worst moderator ever. :'D

I used to write the most heinous stuff as a teenager. Yeah, being serious about RP kinda makes it less fun most of the time.

hahaah oh god don't get sucked into Gaia.
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:iconleaunoire:
The last time I RP'd on AIM (cannot even remember how long ago that was) the girl was like ASKDLKASDSA YOU ARE SO SLOW HURRY UP AND TYPE YOUR 60 MILLION PAGE WORD DOCUMENT FASTER. So I swore it off. At least with a forum it's not like GOOD GOD I HAVE TO REPLY TO THIS RIGHT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

The more serious people get about RPing the more of a task it becomes and less of a fun activity. Not to mention if you ever tried to organize one of those smaller group RPs where you have like 5 or 6 people max on a forum, it would always ALWAYS die within 2 months of being started up because one or two people would get too busy and you couldn't progress without everyone participating. I think RP is, probably, fundamentally flawed as a concept and will mostly always fail in every form except in the rarest of cases.

aaah man even though all I have done is complain about how much of a chore it was this is making me so nostalgic, shitters!!!
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:iconpastedwings:
LOLS I remember your tragic goth character. And mine. Oh God. Ahahaha. Those really were the days, though. I miss RPing on Digital Enigma and all those old sites. It was so fun being an 11-year-old loser. D: <3

*no doubt sabotaging you with more nostalgia* .w.
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