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Matoyak

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    Matoyak reacted to podian in EGS Strip Slaying   

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    Matoyak reacted to Alwaysnewguy in Story Friday Nov 11, 2016   
    Because he wants to make magic available for everyone, and if magic can (and will) change it's rules to prevent that, then he can never achieve it.
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    Matoyak got a reaction from mlooney in Things That Make You Happy   
    I landed my first programming job and started on the 6th. It's at a relatively small startup that deals with enterprise software, virtual reality simulations, and augmented reality safetywear. Currently I'm working on small, bite sized tasks on the web frontend, but due to the nature of the company I'm likely to broaden out into numerous other things beyond the web dev stuff. It's a contract-to-hire position, so I'll be doing taxes as a contractor for the first time in my life, and getting paid once a month as opposed to twice a month, so...that's going to be fun to figure out, especially as I've gone through three different jobs at three different tax brackets this year. (Was a petrochemical laboratory technician from July 25th through October 5th).
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    Matoyak got a reaction from mlooney in Things That Make You Happy   
    I landed my first programming job and started on the 6th. It's at a relatively small startup that deals with enterprise software, virtual reality simulations, and augmented reality safetywear. Currently I'm working on small, bite sized tasks on the web frontend, but due to the nature of the company I'm likely to broaden out into numerous other things beyond the web dev stuff. It's a contract-to-hire position, so I'll be doing taxes as a contractor for the first time in my life, and getting paid once a month as opposed to twice a month, so...that's going to be fun to figure out, especially as I've gone through three different jobs at three different tax brackets this year. (Was a petrochemical laboratory technician from July 25th through October 5th).
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    Matoyak got a reaction from mlooney in Things That Make You Happy   
    I landed my first programming job and started on the 6th. It's at a relatively small startup that deals with enterprise software, virtual reality simulations, and augmented reality safetywear. Currently I'm working on small, bite sized tasks on the web frontend, but due to the nature of the company I'm likely to broaden out into numerous other things beyond the web dev stuff. It's a contract-to-hire position, so I'll be doing taxes as a contractor for the first time in my life, and getting paid once a month as opposed to twice a month, so...that's going to be fun to figure out, especially as I've gone through three different jobs at three different tax brackets this year. (Was a petrochemical laboratory technician from July 25th through October 5th).
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    Matoyak reacted to The Old Hack in EGS Strip Slaying   
    I did like it when gay marriage was legalised all over the US and some people were like, "That's it. I'm moving to Canada," and the Canadians were like, "Uh..."
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    Matoyak reacted to HarJIT in The Grammar Thread   
    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LemonyNarrator ?
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    Matoyak reacted to CritterKeeper in More Speculation.   
    I'm betting that the batting average of those fics is still better than that of an amateur writing and posting a completely original story.  Some fans do like fanfic that plays in others' sandboxes, whether the original main characters are there to play with or not.
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    Matoyak got a reaction from Ser Pentrose in More Speculation.   
    Uh, that's exactly what Tom Sewell said, though.
    All I was saying is that those two bolded statements are a bit limiting. I don't care how popular something is, we shouldn't limit things to purely what's popular. To say it again, that would be "unnecessarily limiting".
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    Matoyak reacted to Vorlonagent in Story Monday August 29, 2016   
    No offense, Tom, I would appreciate it if you used a different color. 

    That looks like the color The Old Hack uses when he is posting as a moderator and correcting behavior that is out of bounds.
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    Matoyak got a reaction from Tom Sewell in Story Friday August 19, 2016   
    Not-Tengu attacked first by spiking the punch, is what I'd say.
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    Matoyak reacted to mlooney in NP Tuesday August 23, 2016   
    Am I a bad person for wanting Ashley to say "yes, I do, why do you ask?" to Pandora's question?
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    Matoyak reacted to CritterKeeper in Pandora is Being Framed   
    Or they might have a spell akin to Abraham's Modern Knowledge spell, allowing them to pick up the local language (which may have changed considerably since the last time they spoke it).
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    Matoyak reacted to PSadlon in NP, Friday August 19, 2016   
    It would be awesome but I doubt even Pandora would have put those factors together that well.
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    Matoyak reacted to ijuin in Story Friday August 19, 2016   
    Bipolar . . . yes, she seems to be more manic than irrational. The term "Maniac" might apply to her better than "insane".
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    Matoyak reacted to Drachefly in NP, Friday August 19, 2016   
    I'm not very happy with the wording Pandora used. It doesn't flow well. I'd have just said, "darn it, her conscience is strong enough to interfere - I can't give her any of them." A core of inner goodness seems a bit over-the-top. Ah well, not a big deal.
     
    ETA: it seems like Dan is trying to take "ashley could be bad?" and hit it with a giant hammer when a screwdriver tightening would have done.
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    Matoyak reacted to Arcanimus in Story Friday August 19, 2016   
    To be completely honest, I find Pandora to be no more unstable than the people I deal with every day at work. She's eccentric, sure, but I've always found sanity to be relative.
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    Matoyak reacted to The Old Hack in All Things Ashley   
    It depends on the kind of story you are writing. Is there somehow a death quota to meet? I always felt that the flaw in TOS was not necessarily the fact that only Redshirts died but the fact that they had to die at all. It were as if the assumption was that the audience would not get that a situation was dangerous unless someone got killed.
    I am a great opponent of death for death's own sake. If you kill off a character, do it for better reason than merely shock value. The worst character deaths are those where someone gets killed purely to shock the audience (as my late grandmother rather nastily put it, 'making a big boom to wake them up from being sound asleep') and then the effects or consequences never get examined or explored. No, if someone has to die, do it with great care and respect for the character and the consequences. And last but certainly not least, for the audience as well.
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    Matoyak reacted to liontari in Story Friday August 19, 2016   
    So far, the entire arc has been a partial redemption of Pandora. I'd say she has anti-villain status by now. Actually, outside that stuff with Magus and the end of Sister II, we haven't seen her do anything too "evil". Except for some of her more violent outbursts, she doesn't even seem as crazy as you'd expect her to be: this conversation has been downright reasonable at times.
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    Matoyak reacted to HarJIT in Things You Only Noticed On Reread   
    Or "parents".
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    Matoyak got a reaction from Tom Sewell in Story Wednesday August 17, 2016   
    My fun, off the wall theory about Disco Wizard is that it's Greg.
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    Matoyak got a reaction from Tom Sewell in Story Wednesday August 17, 2016   
    My fun, off the wall theory about Disco Wizard is that it's Greg.
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    Matoyak got a reaction from Tom Sewell in Story Wednesday August 17, 2016   
    My fun, off the wall theory about Disco Wizard is that it's Greg.
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    Matoyak reacted to Xenophon Hendrix in Things You Only Noticed On Reread   
    I think the consensus is "mother."
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    Matoyak reacted to The Old Hack in NP Friday August 12, 2016   
    The Moderator: No, it does not. There is no debate on these forums at all. Trans people get referred to by their self-identified gender here. Deliberately denying them their personal identity and lived experience is transphobic and hence against the forum rules. Anyone who does not respect this will first get warned and if they do not heed this eventually banned.