More lists, delayed

[petronia]

corneredangel:

1. FSS. Which I never finished reading. I think. Not that it's possible to finish reading FSS in any meaningful sense of the word. I do wish dude had filled in at least one major character group arc from beginning to end and left the tabletop RPG worldbuilding to those who care. Even Tolkien managed that much!

2. "[in hentai], you're supposed to be looking at the girl." That essay is still up, I'm afraid to take a look at it though. XD; As Charmian once pointed out it's the direct antecedent to the Suzumiya Haruhi no moé essay. Every once in a while I get a pressing urge to point out something that's clear to me but seemingly not to the rest of fandom; thankfully it happens rarely.

3. B-school case studies turned on their heads. I'll miss the case studies when I'm done (though there's always the Harvard Business IdeaCast). They're written in a style that reminds one of certain popular SF or legal thrillers, complete with character actions - "Halloween afternoon, 1999. Jon W. Slater, president and chief executive officer of Optivus Technology, Inc., relaxed in his chair with his brown hair concealed beneath a thick wig of dreadlocks - his costume for the company party carrying on in the big high-ceilinged room outside his office door." Who needs subversion when you've got that? In any case, it's not so much the case studies I turn around so much as I'm now able to highlight the case study potential in everything else. For instance, naanima recently disclosed the existence of a home-brewed anime fanart hentai game in which you play the madam of a brothel (download link included so no one has to ask). It's one of the most bogglingly addictive games I've ever played, even granting that it panders (ahaha) to my weakness for fiddly stats... it's a retail business simulation, basically. XD;;; Like it's quite easy for variable costs to outstrip revenues if your customer base doesn't support your growth, or you blew your cash flow on the wrong kind of capex. Much as in real life, too, the impact of the marketing budget is perceptible but frustratingly fuzzy. I could easily imagine this game as a component of my Managerial Operations class from last year. Or at least, a version sans Rinoa getting reamed up the ass.

Business school simulations are all immensely playable, actually. One would think there'd be retail versions not catering to the professional development market - tack a plot onto a series of missions, dating sim style. Like those seinen business manga series. Or do it MMORPG-style (I think these exist).

I just wrote a (poor) paper on Kodak. Here is something from Wikipedia I've been thinking about all day, that is making me sad:

Kodak's shift in focus to digital imaging has led to it dropping all but one incarnation of what is perhaps the most famous film of all time, Kodachrome, which is now only available in ISO 64 35mm slide format. The systematic deletion of Kodachrome products from Kodak's product portfolio has caused a great deal of resentment from film users, who used Kodachrome for its perceived unique look, and in many cases would have preferred a period of notice before the film stocks were discontinued. Kodachrome is now processed by only one lab, an independent facility named Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas.

There's something very Bill Gibson about that detail, isn't there? The last stand of Dwayne's Photo in Parson, Kansas. Paul Simon singing about something that was around before his parents were, that he wouldn't have expected to disappear before he was old.

4. This is only in my mind, but, actual mainland Chinese cinema. Suppose it's not a bad association, although it's something in my background rather than something I do (grandparents in the industry). XD; I do follow mainland Chinese cinema, but not more than everything else.

5. Montreal in winter. I'd rather be associated with Montreal in the summer. XD But mustn't grumble.



bladderwrack:

1) ellipsis in communication idk if this means that I use ellipses a lot when I write or that I fall out of communication often! XD; Probably guilty of both. When I edit SSBB I always end up restructuring people's sentences with more complex punctuation.

2) large amounts of arcane knowledge more like I dabble a lot and remember snippets of weird things, frayed ends of threads I can google to roll up the rest. Am probably not unlike Araki Hirohiko in this sense, actually, and William Gibson (who says he might start doing product placement on his blog, as he's always being accused of doing it in his novels; I can't wait). I have a wide "pipeline" for information, great volumes of the stuff pours through at constant high speed but I retain only oddly-shaped imprints, like those left in wet sand by the tide. Thus, stories.

3) ability to namecheck. again with the pipeline - I might remember that, whatever that is, but it's probably all I remember. XD; As I was saying to uminohikari, it's not hard to namecheck when you've got it open in front of you.

4) precocious (sexually and otherwise) boys, appr. 11-13, poss 15. I do wonder what this represents! Trust me when I say I'm not attracted to them in reality. I think it's because kids are normally such blobs at that age that a self-possessed, intelligent, and pretty 13-year-old comes across as quite eerie, even in real life. Bishounen are Death Things, aren't they? ^^; It's a fantasy novel way of setting the character apart, like violet eyes. bladderwrack herself actually wrote something about Schuldig recently that I think sums it up - he's this sort of fairly happy self-contained package, except the stable state attained by the contents is wrong. By external definitions.

5) homoerotic mafia/triad/uhh-psychic-eurotrash-spy stories you know, I always wanted to be a fantasy writer. I always thought I'd be a fantasy writer. But what I'm actually good at is obvious. XD;; I used to have a great deal of difficulty moving characters around - they wanted to stay in the city, not tromp around in the woods, and the city wanted to be a civilized multicultural sort of place with lots of commerce and cuisine and architecture, not some medieval European fortress. Eventually I gave up and stopped reading books in which people tromped around in the woods in between medieval European fortresses, too.

Comments

[bladderwrack.livejournal.com]

re: 1) I phrased that badly*. What I meant was, you tend to describe things by citing several other things, leaving the comparison (and description, come to think of it) implicit, and without providing any information about objects cited. I am a fan of this communication style, fwiw -- it's highly efficient when one has a working knowledge of all the referents, and if one doesn't, well, one can always use the internet to learn about new and interesting things ♥

*Primarily because it actually requires several sentences of explanation, which is untidy in list format


ION I am making Buccellati's jacket, is proving rather a lot of effort for something that will go with like none of my other clothes.

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

Isn't Montreal still Montreal either way?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay! Yeah... this is just the way my brain functions, I guess, I'm not even sure how else I would describe things. XD;

Photo pls when done. XD