How's My Driving | July 2013

[ironwood]

Three months have already passed since the last HMD? You betcha! This means that it's time to kick off the fourth quarterly gamewide HMD here in Tu Shanshu! Things are getting structured a little differently this time, so read on for details.

How's My Driving?
While each and every character must have an HMD page available, we offer a gamewide HMD once every calendar quarter. This is an opportunity to get together and discuss IC interpretations and portrayals in a respectful, beneficial fashion. In a nutshell, it's a chance to see how we're doing in the grand scheme of things.

There are a few ground rules to cover off before we can start:

• Participation in the quarterly HMD is 100% optional.
  
• Be respectful, anon or not. It's a lot easier to give and receive crit if all parties are making it a discussion of it rather than an argument.
  
• IP logging is off and anonymous commenting is on. You can offer crit signed-in if you like, but the option's there.
  
• New! We ask that each concrit provided consist of one positive and one constructive bit of feedback. Bring up something that you like about that player, and in the same comment provide something that you feel they could work on. This is to help round out the feedback and provide a better experience all around.
  

That's it, that's all!

And, to make things easier, here's a handy-dandy codeset:

<big><b><i>Player Name</i></b></big> <i>Character Name:</i> <i>Canon:</i> <i>User Name:</i> <I>Focus:</i> Optional. Do you have particular concerns about your portrayal that you'd like to be the focus of crit? You can link any threads you'd like a second opinion on here. If you're looking for structural feedback, or would prefer things like grammar not be mentioned, put it here.

Comments

[constants]

UHH I'm pretty sure they were doing more network tags (I feel like Jim would be that one person on Facebook who likes every status and comments on at least half of them), hitting on more girls, uuuuuh there might have been one more but I forgot overnight.

And I went and skimmed some of the newly added stuff (on my phone so that slows me down and I couldn't touch all of it) but I think that the stuff added rounds if out pretty well. And yeah, I get that be wouldn't really bring it up with other people, but I was thinking a bit more on how it internally affects his day to day choices too. Like, what has shifted? Has anything shifted? Or is he trying to sort of just make decisions without that information? I don't think I'm doing a great job of getting the idea in my brain across, but that's sort of it (its now 6AM and I woke up sometime before 5 so brain is nooot functioning at 100%).

[jirk]

I actually see Jim as the sort of person who can't still long enough to spend a significant chunk of time talking on the network (it's too much like paperwork!). I prefer doing logs with him because body language is such a huge part of his personal charisma and he likes the face-to-face so he can read/gauge people a little more intimately than the consoles allow. But I can definitely try tagging around a bit more there!

(omg your poor phone, I pity having to load some of those threads on it shriek)

Also: spoilers henceforth, highlight for visibility!

It has affected him a great deal! It's possible I'm not conveying it properly, but Jim's actually been finding himself being overwhelmed with fear quite a bit lately and it's lead to him being markedly less reckless than usual, which is bothering him so much because he knows it's because of the fact he watched himself die and he doesn't know how to fix it. Being afraid for his life is a seriously novel concept for him. He's used to just falling back on his luck and natural skill to make it through anything by the seat of his pants, so those little moments where he has to stop and remind himself to breathe are really taking their toll on their psyche. Of course, it's actually making him more reckless in some respects, because every time he goes 'I'm afraid' to himself he turns around and pushes himself past his comfort level because he refuses to give into or tolerate that apprehension.


... so yes. I hope that helps justify/rationalize some of my choices! And thank you so much for the feedback ugh I love talking about stuff like this. /reaches!

[emmingly]

NO SEE THAT WAS GOOD because now I understand! I was wondering if it was something that's hard to express like that. Since it's hard to express the reasons for not doing something when you... don't do it. So there's not any place to say that's the reason you're not doing it! (I'm sorry you're having to read my circular thoughts at night as well as my rambling ones in the morning.)

But yes, it sounds like you have everything worked out! I'm glad I can understand now why you're doing the flawless things you do~ /reaches back

also woop woop too lazy to log out of my main