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Feb. 5th, 2004 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfoxLost in Translation was seen by me last night (along with a bunch of other people).
It's charming. And sweet. And painful. And really good at making one *feel* how it is to be lonely.
Not something I really needed help remembering. Leaving the group and going home was interesting.
Not a movie I plan to own, even though it was good enough to almost make me cry. Too painful, and I'm not going to watch it ever again.
It's charming. And sweet. And painful. And really good at making one *feel* how it is to be lonely.
Not something I really needed help remembering. Leaving the group and going home was interesting.
Not a movie I plan to own, even though it was good enough to almost make me cry. Too painful, and I'm not going to watch it ever again.
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Date: 2004-02-05 05:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-02-05 07:53 pm (UTC)2 times the pain
Date: 2004-02-05 08:51 pm (UTC)It was good to meet you in RL finally. I've seen your comments on posts what seems like quite a while.
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Date: 2004-02-05 09:18 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-05 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-06 05:10 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-06 09:18 pm (UTC)I notice that we seem to share some friends and some interests; I was thinking of adding you to my friends list, but I wanted to pass that by you first.
Second, I noticed that you list role playing games in your interests. Table top role playing? Are you involved in this right now (I mean, not at the moment you are reading this post obviously... though, I suppose that's possible if you multi-task well...)?
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Date: 2004-02-06 09:53 pm (UTC)Nope, I'm not currently table-top gaming, partly due to lack of time, and partly due to having had too many unpleasant GM experiences. There's at least one, possibly more, available options for such should I do so. Why?
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Date: 2004-02-07 01:41 am (UTC)I'm looking for an elusive 5th player for a game I'm pulling together.
unpleasant GM experiences
Unpleasant, like in bad GMing, or unpleasant in the "and then the GM tried to grope me" kind of way?
Hrmmm... how to say this without sounding like a bragging jerk?.. well, there is just no way to do it, so I'll go straight to the bragging jerk lines...
Ok, so I'm the best GM that has ever walked the earth. Sure, that sounds like incredible boasting, but, as the record will show, this is the case. I've searched long and hard for other good GMs, but I've yet to meet even one GM that had a well developed world, good characterization, interesting story lines, and loads of opportunities for players to effect the course of events, write the history of the world, and provide rule developmental impact.
For supporting evidence, the best bet is my former and current players, many who are live journal folks. I'm certain that any of these folks would back-up my GM proficiency claims:
I've been, for about two months, working on getting a game together. Unfortunately, I've 1)been very selective in my choosing and 2)been specifically trying to find new-to-me players. I have many friends who would be more than happy to take a seat in one of my games, but I like it when I can get some new folks into each new game I start up. Its a challenge for me to GM to a new player with different expectations and needs than my previous folks. Its also how I build community, which is a big deal to me.
So, the short version of the above - "I'm a good GM looking for a new player."
When I met you the other day I got a good vibe from you, a "she seems like a cool person" kind of thing. Given that, I looked you up, and your posts, friends, and interests all seemed to further support my initial impression. Having discovered that, I figured it was worth a shot to see if you were interested and available in a game.
Of course, this is all terribly forward of me; I apologize if that's off-putting. I often times jump ahead in the dance of "getting to know each other."
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Date: 2004-02-12 06:53 pm (UTC)How often would your group be meeting? I cannot at *all* do weekly, probably cannot do every other week. That's just too frequently. Also, what do you GM?
(sorry for delay - life hectic, this month also always just sucks)
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Date: 2004-02-16 02:28 pm (UTC)That's good. I've known a number of female players that have had the bad GM experience in the groping direction. Most unpleasant.
How often would your group be meeting? I cannot at *all* do weekly, probably cannot do every other week.
Alas, its a weekly game, on Monday nights. I prefer weekly games because there is less gaming momentum lost between the sessions. My experience with games that meet twice a month or once a month is that the players get less into character, and they forget many details of the story. Due to my GMing style, playing every two weeks would be like reading a book where you only read a chapter every two weeks.
Also, what do you GM?
I run a gaming system of my own make. I developed it over the last 19 years, so its fairly well fleshed out. This particular game is a fantasy role-playing game set in my gaming world.
So... it sounds like you, like many of my friends, are suffering from the overloaded schedule syndrome. I have several friends who are unlikely to ever get to play in my games because they are just so busy and have so many other friends who want their attention. That's totally understandable, even enviable. Oh well; I figured I'd give it a shot. Occasionally throughout the year, I run what I call "weekend one shots" - where I run a whole campaign over a single weekend. The game runs all day Saturday and all day Sunday, but then its done. Given your schedule, maybe something like that would work better for you? I'll probably be organizing one late in the spring. Let me know if you'd be available and/or interested in such a thing.
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Date: 2004-02-16 04:16 pm (UTC)Quite. :) Also, I really prefer my schedule when not at work to be more... flexible. Having lots of weekly things rather defeats that goal.
"weekend one shots" [...] probably be organizing one late in the spring
This sounds more promising! Although, it needs to be when I'm around.
I'm definitely gone April 24-27th (company meeting), May 1st-4th (visiting
Any idea when?
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Date: 2004-02-19 06:56 pm (UTC)Based off of your restrictions above... it sounds like the weekend of April 10-11 and the weekend of April 17-18 would be free for you. Is that correct? Let me know, and I'll do an e-mail around to my other waiting-in-the-wings folks and see whom I can summon.
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Date: 2004-02-19 07:18 pm (UTC)Tentatively, yes.
I realized I forgot to ask how late it would go on Sunday. It matters not only because of work on Mondays, but also because I periodically have energy work group on Sunday nights, including April 11th. It starts at 7pm-ish, in Bolton.
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Date: 2004-02-20 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
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