How's My Driving | January 2014

[ironwood]

WELCOME WELCOME, THE QUARTER QUELL HAS ARRIV-- wait a minute, wrong script. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen! It's that time of the (new) year again! Read on for the details of this, the newest of our quarterly HMDs.

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

[asouthron]

Claire
Character Name: Leonard McCoy
Canon: Star Trek AOS
User Name: asouthron
Focus: Uhhh the usual! I haven't canon reviewed him in awhile and I am a little worried his dialogue is slipping. Also! Let me know if I've messed up any medical/doctorness in any of my threads.

Character Name: Kotetsu Kaburagi
Canon: Tiger & Bunny
User Name: oyaji
Focus: I've dropped the ball on him a lot lately. He should be a lot more outgoing in his obnoxiousness, but I just got busy. Still! Let me know how you feel! I struggle a lot with his dialogue as well since I use his Japanese VA as inspiration.

[(Anonymous)]

I think your McCoy is pretty good, however, I've noticed that when you post (both posts and logs) you tend to drop threads that are not part of your already existing CR pretty quickly, sometimes only tagging once before dropping the thread completely. This has been my experience in trying to tag you a few times and I think it might be something to keep in mind and improve on.

[asouthron]

Yes, this is, unfortunately, something I've been struggling with for a few months. There's too many things I want to do and not enough time for everything, so plenty of threads get dropped.

I'm going to be trying hard this month to keep up with my threads and not tag out too much until other threads are complete. That way I am not leaving players like you hanging.

Thank you for bringing it to my attention and with someone watching it will hopefully light a fire under my ass to stay organized. I'd also be more than happy to make it up to you if you wanna PM me about it or just tag me in the next log/network and I will try harder to not leave anyone hanging!