[Intense Degree]

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. How do you tell if someone's flirting with you?
2. What words do you refuse to capitalise, even though style guides say you should?
3. What time do you usually wake up these days without the help of an alarm clock?

1. I am notoriously bad at noticing this. Not that it's happened that much (looks not really being my strong suit) but on the few occasions it has happened I basically haven't noticed until someone told me afterwards or was just told straight out by the person in question. Therefore I suppose intelligence isn't my strong suit either!

2. I have the reverse of this in some ways. When i'm writing, as opposed to typing, I always capitalise words that start with "j". I have no idea why I do this, it isn't choice, it's just what I do (habit).

3. Depends entirely on what time I go to bed of course, but assuming bed by 11 or thereabouts, usually around 7:30.

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1. Wen u txt do u use txt spk or write everything out properly?

2. American/British English. Whichever side you are on, what is the most annoying/stupid difference to you? (spelling, phrases or words etc.) and/or what annoys you most about the other version?

3. Is Hammie really a real tool for passing on questions?

[Squinky]

1. I avoid txt-style spelling whenever possible. Especially now that I have an iPhone, I have absolutely no excuse.
2. I think words ending in "or" instead of "our" look weird. Almost harder and more guttural. Another thing: "foetus" is a cool word, and "fetus" is just boring. Come on, admit it.
3. Nah, he's more of a plastic Fisher Price tool.

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1. What (if any) things do you discuss with same-gender friends that you don't generally discuss with other-gender friends?
2. What (if any) things do you discuss with other-gender friends that you don't generally discuss with same-gender friends?
3. Are there any notable exceptions to any of the above?

[Lee in Limbo]

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

1) d) split up the three interlocking plots.
2) b) take along your songbook and play him things he won't know how to play.
3) b) take your meds, make some strong coffee, and push like mad to reach the end of the day.

I selected the answers I chose.

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. What's the best wedding you've ever attended?
2. What's the worst wedding you've ever attended?
3. What's the most bizarre wedding you've ever attended?

1. Mine, and I'm not just saying it because my wife would kill me. It really was a great little shindig (though marred by a few little problems that plague me to this day).
2. Well, as I've really only been to two weddings in recent memory, and the second I was best man at, I can't very well say that, especially because my speech was brilliant.
3. I'm still waiting for this one. Possibly mine in the 23rd Century. I expect to have more legs by then, which should make the pants a real issue.

Originally Posted by Intense Degree

1. Have you ever witnessed (and probably squirmed through!) a family argument where it wasn't your family?
2. Do you prefer a beach & pool holiday or one where you are active and get around to see/do things?
3. Have you ever done the 18-30 style Ibiza/Ayia Napa type holiday (I think Cancun is the equivalent over in the states and Bali for Oz)? If so did you enjoy it and if not would you like to or can't you imagine anything worse?

1. Yes. I didn't squirm. I just quietly left. I'm not huge on confrontation.
2. Well, as I have a fear of deep water stemming from a near-drowning in my childhood, I'd have to say 'active'.
3. No, I've only visited a few states south of the border, and traveled a fair bit in my home province. Never been on a package tour.

Originally Posted by Hammerite

1. What's your opinion on electronic music?
2. What do you feel about people who choose not to drink?
3. What's the most bizarre thing that has ever woken you from your sleep?

1. Tangerine Dream.
2. More for me.
3. The cat humping his chenile blanket.

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. How do you tell if someone's flirting with you?
2. What words do you refuse to capitalise, even though style guides say you should?
3. What time do you usually wake up these days without the help of an alarm clock?

1. Their eyes light up and their smile is the warmest, sexiest thing I've seen all day.
2. I'm usually pretty good with capitalisation, but I do occasionally typo and have to go back and capitalise the letter I when referring to myself, which seems a bit Freudian.
3. Between five to six o'clock AM.

Originally Posted by Intense Degree

1. Wen u txt do u use txt spk or write everything out properly?
2. American/British English. Whichever side you are on, what is the most annoying/stupid difference to you? (spelling, phrases or words etc.) and/or what annoys you most about the other version?
3. Is Hammie really a real tool for passing on questions?

1. I prefer proper spelling and grammar. I'm old, you see?
2. British English, though I often use Americanisms when novel writing, and a few old habits like using zed instead of ess in certain words I've seen Americanized for too long (you see what I did there?).
3. Yeah, but he's young and foolish, so we forgive him. This time.

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. What (if any) things do you discuss with same-gender friends that you don't generally discuss with other-gender friends?
2. What (if any) things do you discuss with other-gender friends that you don't generally discuss with same-gender friends?
3. Are there any notable exceptions to any of the above?

1. Progressive Rock and breasts.
2. Art and oral sex.
3. I discuss writing with both sexes, and make no compunctions about telling members of either sex when I would like to perform sex acts with them. Except that I haven't been doing much of that lately. Writing or sex, that is.
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1) Have you ever written anything you thought was so good, you actually thought about selling it?
2) Have you ever drawn something so good, you thought to yourself, "If I could draw like this all of the time, I could make a career of it"?
3) Have you ever wrote and/or recorded/performed a piece of music so well that it made you think you should be doing so professionally?

[Hammerite]

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

1. Tangerine Dream.

Yes. Though I prefer their ambient stuff like 'Phaedra' to a lot of their later stuff.

[Lee in Limbo]

Originally Posted by Hammerite

Yes. Though I prefer their ambient stuff like 'Phaedra' to a lot of their later stuff.

Their early albums were brilliant meditations on sound and sequence, and created the template for most of what came after. The only real problem with their early output is that you have to have enough time to sit and listen to a few of their pieces in succession to get an idea of what they were trying to do, where you normally only have to listen to one album of any other band to get that same impression.

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

1. Progressive Rock and breasts.

Heh, I discuss breasts with same-gender friends, too. But we don't talk about prog rock, which kind of figures, because it's very much dude music.

Originally Posted by Lee in Limbo

1) Have you ever written anything you thought was so good, you actually thought about selling it?
2) Have you ever drawn something so good, you thought to yourself, "If I could draw like this all of the time, I could make a career of it"?
3) Have you ever wrote and/or recorded/performed a piece of music so well that it made you think you should be doing so professionally?

1. Not yet.
2. I get to draw things at my job that pays me money; does that count?
3. I get paid money at most of my band's gigs; does that count?

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1. What is the best thing you have ever gotten for free?
2. What is the worst thing you've ever paid for?
3. Have you ever gotten money for something and felt bad about it?

[Jelena]

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. What is the best thing you have ever gotten for free?
2. What is the worst thing you've ever paid for?
3. Have you ever gotten money for something and felt bad about it?

1. My children.
2. That smoked salmon I had at the restaurant at the marina where we keep our boat. It made me sick.
3. Not that I can recall.

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1. Do you enjoy flea markets? Why/why not?
2. Is second hand shopping for clothes an alternative for you? Why/why not?
3. What is the most stupid 'thingy' you've bought?

[bulldog]

Originally Posted by Jelena

1. Do you enjoy flea markets? Why/why not?
2. Is second hand shopping for clothes an alternative for you? Why/why not?
3. What is the most stupid 'thingy' you've bought?

1. Yes, I love them (well the clean ones) You can fins (sometimes) nifty little treasures. Me being in pre-k I can find stuff for the kids to dress up in and little things for the kids to play with.

2. Sure......... expecally Jenna's uniforms. Kids grow so fast that they out grow their clothes and they dont even look warn.

3. I couldnt even tell you....... I think it would have to be colored light bulbs (for the bathroom). I bought a pink one one time....... I know

I like Jelena's questions..... I shall pass them along

[tsa]

Originally Posted by Jelena

1. Do you enjoy flea markets? Why/why not?
2. Is second hand shopping for clothes an alternative for you? Why/why not?
3. What is the most stupid 'thingy' you've bought?

1. Not really. All this old junk, of which most belongs in a blast furnace...

2. At the moment, no. But my ex dragged me to a second hand clothes shop once. I wear my clothes until they fall apart, so it was an eye-opener for me to see that you can also throw them out when they are still perfect. When I'm jobless and pennieless I will certainly go there.

3. It's probably the pink with green plastic plant that starts moving its leaves and flower when the sun shines on it.

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1. What do you use your smartphone for?

2. What do you use your computer for.

3. Name all the electrical appliances you have that are always on.

[Squinky]

1. Reading the internets in bed, playing games, and, well, phoning people.
2. My home computer is for game dev, general online stuff, and playing the occasional game. My work computer is for work and (as is the case at this moment) pretending to work. My netbook is for writing when I feel like getting outside of the apartment, tinkering with Linux, and again, general online stuff.
3. The aforementioned smartphone, and my brain. I keep my home computer in sleep mode, unless I'm going to be gone for a while, and I always shut down my netbook when I'm not using it.

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1. How often do you phrase questions as statements.
2. Sometimes people phrase statements as questions? Do you?
3. Do you ever use clothing or other accessories as conversation pieces?

[Hammerite]

1. I usually do it if I want to ask a question but don't want to seem like I'm so bothered about the topic that I'd ask about it.

2. Not so much. Granted, I guess it's a good way to manipulate people into saying what you want to hear.

3. Not much, either. There are many times I've maybe wanted to complement people on their appearance or whatever, but shyness gets the better.
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1. Do you ever find some music, or a link on the internet or anything that you enjoy to the point that you want desperately to share it with others?

2. What methods do you generally use to share it, if you bother at all?

3. What do you think of the thing I last enjoyed to the point of wanting to share with others; i.e. the song linked to (and the news imparted) in this article about one of my favourite bands' new album? http://pitchfork.com/news/39824-a-su...ree-digitally/

[Lee in Limbo]

Originally Posted by Squinky

Heh, I discuss breasts with same-gender friends, too. But we don't talk about prog rock, which kind of figures, because it's very much dude music.

I used to know a girl who loved prog rock. Sadly, I haven't seen her in a very long time.

Originally Posted by Squinky

2. I get to draw things at my job that pays me money; does that count?
3. I get paid money at most of my band's gigs; does that count?

Yes and Yes.

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. What is the best thing you have ever gotten for free?
2. What is the worst thing you've ever paid for?
3. Have you ever gotten money for something and felt bad about it?

1. I don't think I've ever gotten anything that was truly for free. I'm sure others would argue the point, but I tend to feel that everything I have has been earned in some way. Although I did occasionally get a sort of allowance from my step-father, who used to claim it was for 'looking good'.
2. A number of graphic designs I knew were crap by the time the client had finished watering it down.
3. Not precisely. I usually don't feel good about accepting payment for work I'm not happy with, but then I think of the amount of time already put in, and make the decision to accept payment for time wasted.

Originally Posted by Jelena

1. Do you enjoy flea markets? Why/why not?
2. Is second hand shopping for clothes an alternative for you? Why/why not?
3. What is the most stupid 'thingy' you've bought?

1. I used to, when Tom's Comics was a booth at our local flea market in the East End.
2. Not generally, but I've bought a few second hand jackets over the years. Jackets and coats are expensive, but they generally last longer than second hand jeans and such. Although now that I think of it, I do believe we did in fact pick up a few pairs of second hand jeans for me last year, so there's that lie.
3. I don't recall. It's been a long time since I last bought anything for myself that wasn't in some way necessary.

Originally Posted by tsa

1. What do you use your smartphone for?
2. What do you use your computer for.
3. Name all the electrical appliances you have that are always on.

1. I have no smart phone.
2. Porn. No, I use it for writing, research, design work, communications, playing Sims 3 and calling it research and/or design work, playing the occasional not-a-real-adventure-game, and then porn.
3. The refrigerator of course, an air conditioner during the summer months, and the computers tend to get left on all day and all of the night (da dun, da dun, da dundundun dun), though I shut mine down some nights. Considering the incredibly spike in hydro rates, things are going to change.

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. How often do you phrase questions as statements.
2. Sometimes people phrase statements as questions? Do you?
3. Do you ever use clothing or other accessories as conversation pieces?

1. Heh.
2. Heh?
3. Only when they're on other people.

Originally Posted by Hammerite

1. Do you ever find some music, or a link on the internet or anything that you enjoy to the point that you want desperately to share it with others?
2. What methods do you generally use to share it, if you bother at all?
3. What do you think of the thing I last enjoyed to the point of wanting to share with others; i.e. the song linked to (and the news imparted) in this article about one of my favourite bands' new album? http://pitchfork.com/news/39824-a-su...ree-digitally/

1. Almost every Saturday night, from around 10PM to 2AM.
2. Youtube via Facebook, unless I can't find a song I really want to play on Youtube; in that case, I upload a single track to my website and link that instead.
3. Haven't heard it yet. I'll tell you later.
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1. Do you really think certain adventure games have gotten way too easy, or is it just that priorities are changing, and a new kind of adventure game is becoming prevalent?
2. Should I ask another question?
3. What question should I ask next?

[tsa]

1. I think you have become way too good at adventure games and you know every trick in the book.

2. Yes

3. What kind of storytelling would you like to see in an adventure game? And I mean story telling technique, not the story itself.

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by tsa

What kind of storytelling would you like to see in an adventure game? And I mean story telling technique, not the story itself.

I care more about the story itself than technique, because technique without story is just a gimmick. So yeah, that's my answer: more storytelling techniques that are actually part of the story, and not just there because of convention!

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1. Generally, do you prefer to read the manual or figure it out as you go along?
2. Do you have an easier time flirting with geeks, as opposed to the general population?
3. Do you have an easier time writing when you know you're going to have an audience?

[Intense Degree]

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. Generally, do you prefer to read the manual or figure it out as you go along?
2. Do you have an easier time flirting with geeks, as opposed to the general population?
3. Do you have an easier time writing when you know you're going to have an audience?

1. On the whole I would only turn to the manual as a last resort as my own estimation of my ability far outstrips the shameful reality! Unless it was something really complicated in which case I would use it as a reference pretty much from the beginning.

2. I think I tend to get on with geeks better generally (takes one to know one and all that) so I would say probably yes. To be honest i'm not much of a flirty person and am only likely to be so with someone I know fairly well or someone who seems interested anyway. Not that I do that at all since I have been married of course!

3. I certainly have a more productive time writing but as for easier, i'm not sure! I tend to be fairly last minute for these things, but the pressure of knowing an audience are in the offering giving a dealine is probably the best motivator I know!

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1. How good are you at writing letters for either business purposes or socially? (if you ever do with email/facebook etc.) Do you enjoy it when you do?

2. Is it sad that so many fewer letters are sent with emails/texts etc. taking over, or is it good riddance to a slow and outmoded means of communication?

3. If you had three wishes, what would the second one be?

[Squinky]

1. I'm very rarely in situations where I have to write formal letters, which I don't really like doing because it feels too stiff and artificial. I like sending and receiving the occasional handwritten message; sending postcards to my Kickstarter backers was a lot of fun, and cheered me up quite a bit while I was unemployed and home alone most days.
2. First, I think it's silly to whine about how things were so much better in the good old days when all we had was snail mail; people can and do still write letters, and no one's stopping them from doing so! That said, I grew up with the internet, so I can't imagine a world without it. Most older folks would say I'm impatient and expect too much instant gratification. They're probably right.
3. My own island.

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1. To what extent do you care about looking good?
2. Are there things you find yourself completely unable to do when there's music playing?
3. If you were to have your own island, how close to civilisation would you like it to be?

[Jelena]

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. To what extent do you care about looking good?
2. Are there things you find yourself completely unable to do when there's music playing?
3. If you were to have your own island, how close to civilisation would you like it to be?

1. I'm vain! I chose my clothes carefully, I put on make up almost every day (at least every work day), I sometimes dye my hair and I exercise in order to keep fairly fit.
2. Not really, but at times when I'm tired I avoid playing music when I need to concentrate.
3. 500 meters or so.

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1. What is your number one fear right now?
2. What is your biggest wish right now?
3. What is your favourite song today?

[tsa]

Originally Posted by Jelena

1. What is your number one fear right now?
2. What is your biggest wish right now?
3. What is your favourite song today?

1. To die with nobody near me.
2. Health.
3. Hm, I haven't heard much music today so I wouldn't know.

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1. How many gadgets do you buy per year?
2. What is your weak spot?
3. What is the most horrible animal you know?

[Squinky]

1. This year, I bought a netbook, an iPhone, and... uh, does a new bike count? Most of these purchases, unsurprisingly enough, coincided with getting a new job.
2. People telling me I'm very smart and mature for my age... even though I know it isn't true.
3. Assuming by "know" you mean "am acquainted with firsthand", then I would say mosquitos. They love me a little bit too much...

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1. If you had to die right now, who would you like to be with you as you exhale your last breath?
2. I have a winning personality, awesome hobbies, and an absolutely perfect body. Why does no one want to daaate meee?
3. Do you find drunk people annoying?

[tsa]

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. If you had to die right now, who would you like to be with you as you exhale your last breath?
2. I have a winning personality, awesome hobbies, and an absolutely perfect body. Why does no one want to daaate meee?
3. Do you find drunk people annoying?

1. My family and three unnamed people who are very dear to me.
2. You're too young, live on the other side of the planet, and you were born 100 years too early for your perfect date to meet you.
3. Yes. They are often loud and stupid.

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