[ SECRET POST #047 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #047 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 023 secrets from Secret Submission Post #007.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Thursday February 22, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fuckyeah.livejournal.com]

11. Yeah, I used to be like that, and I think credit is nice, but really, I'm like fuck it. Being bitchy about it is only going get more people to do it to make fun of you. If someone else claims they did it and are asking for credit that's different though, but still not worth fighting the intrawebs over. u_u

[zhoutaisdayoff.livejournal.com]

6.) It'd be cool, but choosing WHICH fandom is pretty tough.

11.) I hate that shit too. It's 100x100 pixels of stupid Photoshop Tricks and they make it seem like it's the Mona Lisa of Icons. I could probably duplicate their shit with shit of my own.

[fairyfey.livejournal.com]

2. That picture is weirding me out. Gah.

5. I care more about ...everything than the papers I write for school. >>

[superbean.livejournal.com]

lawl. I totally care about making props for the concert I'm going to tomorrow more than I care about any hw... I haven't done shit in the past two days X3

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[donkey.livejournal.com]

FF9 is slow but it's worth sticking at it, the pace quickens a lot once you get into it and past the tournament shit and all that pissing about. It's my favorite FF so I guess I would say that though :P I haven't played it through in a while, but I think it's around the time you get to Madain Sari that the plot begins to get more oomph. The latter part of the plot and the ending bosses & cutscenes are really worth the effort!

[some-kat.livejournal.com]

4. I...I love that game. I can't stand playing through the first disc or so, but once you get past it, it's a lot better.

11. Mm..As an icon maker, I won't go rampaging if I don't see a credit. Hell, half the time I won't even say anything. But, I prefer it because if someone's looking through your userpics, you might want to see what else that icon-maker has made. Iunno. The argument's been going on for so long DX

[hako-neko.livejournal.com]

2. As much as I dislike that pairing, that drawing is adorable. .__.;

4. I'm the only person I know who didn't mind the slow pace of the battles. The only thing that really got me was how slow some transitions were of vehicles and stuff moving... like... GOD can you please go any faster?! As someone above me said, keep going-- it gets better in the second disk. :D

[some-kat.livejournal.com]

4. The only thing that really got me was how slow some transitions were of vehicles and stuff moving

GOD YES. Heck, the CHOCOBOS move faster than those carts inside Alexanderia.

[lostremnant.livejournal.com]

1. I fully sympathize. It would be nice to chose the pairing yourself. But it would probably be a nightmare to program. Think of all the ramifications that the programmers would have to take into account.

2. Um...I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. You don't like cutsy pairings or you don't like same sex pairings? If it's the latter well generally pairing means romantic pairing (there are exceptions but romantic is the most common) so if you don't like same sex pairings then just say a male/female one. If on the other hand you are referring to cutsy, emotard relationships that make you want to throw up because they're so angstridden then yes I agree.

3. And the prince was such a dork too.

4. For some reason I never finished FFIX. I got pretty far into it but I just didn't finish it.

6. I've been sick of real life since I was in middle school.

7. Oh yes! I wanna be a Turk!

10. Well role-playing is a skill and like any other skill some people are good at it and some people aren't.

11. I would make an exception for icons that are really original (although there aren't very many of those are there). What gets me are those people who basically take screencaps, shrink them down and then insist that nobody else put text on them. Um...why? They weren't your pictures to begin with and all you did was crop and resize them.

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

Why do so many people think that living in a fantasy world would be better than real life? Would you really want to live in a world that's constantly on the verge of the apocalypse?

Real life isn't that bad, people. And don't give me your wangsty emo crap that "nobody in this world understaaaaaaaaands me :(((((((" because, like it or not, someone else is going through what you are, and there are people who want to help.

*Steps off of soapbox*

[(Anonymous)]

Would you really want to live in a world that's constantly on the verge of the apocalypse?

YES. Fuck fairies and elves and dwarves. Give me a world at constant war, threatened by monsters, where you wake up every day to fight and each one might be your last. I personally would love it.

It has nothing to do with understanding at all.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Emo kids would totally not survive in a fantasy world, are you kidding me? They'd be all LOOK I CUT MYSELF and someone would be all *POTION* no more tears! and they'd be like, well shit. D:

I'd so go around doing that just to piss them off.

[lostremnant.livejournal.com]

Do you know all the people in the world? Do you know what their life is like? Then spare me the "real life isn't that bad" B.S. You don't know what people have gone through in their life.

Tell a woman who was raped by her stepfather since she was five years old until she finally ran away at sixteen that "real life isn't that bad" and see how she responds.

Tell someone who has cystic fibrosis and is in and out of hospitals and knows that he'll die young that "real life isn't that bad" and see how he responds.

I know I'm being rude but I am so sick of people pushing the crap that real life is soooo wonderful because hey it isn't so wonderful for some people and if they wistfully express the wish to live in some fantasy then LET THEM.

Because they're living their lives and you aren't living their lives for them so cut them some slack mkay?

Now I'll step off MY soapbox.

In addition:

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

To me, icons are just like fan fiction and fan art. You'd be pretty pissed off if your fics/art got stolen and claimed as being someone else's. Most iconists are just nipping the plagarism in the bud by requiring credit to be given. Is it a little bit extreme for a 100 x 100 picture? Yes, but it's better than having people claim your work was theirs.

Not that my icons would ever be good enough to be used by other people in the first place. :')

Re: In addition:

[sanje.livejournal.com]

I dunno, if I was a thief I might steal your Pyramid Head icon. :D;;

[happy-cupcake.livejournal.com]

1. If you hate it so much, you should look into playing dating sims (that aren't made by KEY) because you can choose the girl you want to be with.

2. I know, pairings are not always romantic. There are several pairings I like in fandom, but are not romantic parings, I just like seeing the characters together.

3. I know! I used to want to be a mermaid so badly. Not so much anymore, but I would if I were given the chance. I think Ariel just wanted a change.

4. I really found myself bored with this game too. I really hated how some of the characters seem kinda thrown in there <.<

5. Me too, hence why I'm failing everything right now. D:

10. Seriously! I was talking with someone that said she tends to be more "uke" since she's a girl. That's no excuse >.

>.<!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[happy-cupcake.livejournal.com]

Crap, it cut off my last comment!

11. To me, icon credit is just a way of telling the creator "Thanks for making this, it looks great!" and a way for other lurkers to say "Oh wow, that's really nice looking! I should see what else this person makes."

Being anal about it is kinda annoying, but I think if someone requests others to not use certain icons, it's better to respect their wishes and not steal it and cause tons of drama.

[4ti3k4t35.livejournal.com]

5. I write fanfiction as my papers for school. >_>

11. I love it when people credit because then I CAN FIND THE ICONMAKER. If I like one icon, chances are I might like more of theirs. It's so sad when someone has a hundred totally awesome icons, but no idea who made any of them.

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

I write fanfiction about my papers at school. *snerk*

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[sanje.livejournal.com]

I never really got that either. It would be understandable, I guess, if it was your art and the person was claiming that not only did they make the icon but the picture used as well... but in most cases they aren't claiming they made anything. They're just using it. I personally don't see the harm in that, but whatever. If someone says not to use icons they made, then just don't use icons they made. It's just plain old couresy to do so.

If I was an icon maker I'd be flattered to see my stuff being used anywhere, whether they linked back to me or not (it would be a bonus if they did, of course). Hey, they liked it enough to steal it form you, right? That's got to count for something.

[shoyesainomiko.livejournal.com]

10) Not to be wanky or anything, but in any sort of acting, a part of you is going to be in the character you play, particularly in roleplaying, even if you are really good. Albeit making characters just like you is Mary Sue-ish and unskilled, but whether the player sees it or doesn't, there are going to be some traits in them that they didn't intend that are similar to themselves. *shrug* Just offering my two cents.

[autophobia.livejournal.com]

Totally agreeing with this. I'm hellbent on annihilating all of the Mary Sues within the universe, but, even I can acknowledge that if your character and yourself had NO relation at all, you wouldn't be able to play it.

That and little tidbits tend to get in during the creation process. :D

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[seishin.livejournal.com]

what character/series is that? :)

Re: 12

[(Anonymous)]

Disgaea/Disgaea II, Etna. :)

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[insteadofdeath.livejournal.com]

I think I love you. ;-; I seem to be surrounded by so many pairing-crazy people lately and it's aaaargh.

[kinneas.livejournal.com]

7. Agent 47 is the sexiest character ever. Seriously.

[(Anonymous)]

I love number 9.

[shinzuku.livejournal.com]

That was me.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have a journal anymore, but when I did I pretty much used any icons that I found appealing. I switched them out when I got tired of them, so I never had any of your contraband black market bootleg pixels for very long. It took you thirty seconds to make that thing, and it's not like I'm taking money from you. Besides, "Tifa's face weirdly stretched by XXSpArKlYpOoXX" looks fucking stupid and XXSpArKlYpOoXX is seriously the only one who cares.

That's an awful lot of words about a dead point. Enjoy my $.02 and don't spend it all in one place.