pitch, fingers

[incandescens]

Recipe for apparent self-control; recite five times before posting anything that she who responds on a public forum to someone who is not only snide, but incompetently snide (and can't even edit his own posts) will not get herself anywhere useful. However delightful it might be to be competently snide in response.

Whining behind the cut.


I could mutter something about finding it mildly amusing that it took a team of eleven male writers to attempt to produce a rpg sourcebook about shoujo, but that'd rather be shooting myself in the foot when it came to me producing (if I do) anything about shounen.

Je m'en fous. I want to let loose (rather than declaiming on a private lj to people you know are your friends, mm?) (shut up, you) but equally I don't want to get into a bitching match on a public forum with the author of someone else who published something in the same line and apparently feels that the two have to be compared, and can't resist the opportunity to puff his own in every posting. I don't feel like permanently tarring myself in the process, or engaging in that level of petty boasting -- yes, I think that is the word for it -- which honestly seems to me to be just bad manners and bad form. Mentioning in a general discussion that a game which you worked on has good points is one thing. Starting a thread to compare it with another game and then citing all the cool things about your own is just showing yourself up.


Still, I finished something today which does not displease me too much, so that's good.

(On a sidenote, latest packet of French manga included vol 1 of Kizuna and Seimaden, among others. (Hm, they've translated the protagonist as "Raulés". Not sure whether I like that or not.)

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[multiplexer.livejournal.com]

*raise hand*

But.... but.... but I'm snide! But cute. Snide, but cute.

I, uh, don't read RPG boards anymore for blood pressure reasons.

[incandescens]

I begin to see your point.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

*I* like Raulés. A lot. Solves the old 'did she really mean that for Lawless or is his name Rauresu?' dilemma. The possible pun in a foreign language is maintained and meanwhile we avoid the Blood/ Wild/ Dark Schneider sort of unfortunateness.
-mjj cause I can't be anonymous any more

[incandescens]

It'll probably grow on me. Further interesting linguistic details will be reported later. Am just delighted to have it at the moment; attempts at deciphering my copies of it in Japanese only go so far.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

For no good reason I always found Seimaden a slog to read. I've never analyzed is the Japanese that tough or is it me feet-dragging, but I seemed to be using the Word Tank a lot with it.

[incandescens]

I haven't done more than flick through the first few pages so far (as other books in the package were cases of Urgently Finding Out What Happens Next, and thus higher priority) but will let you know how abstruse the French gets when I get to it.

[summer-queen.livejournal.com]

Did you finish what I think/hope you finished? Or something completely different?

[incandescens]

Yes, that one, but need to do some revising/beta-ing/etc. Should have it in on time.

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

a team of eleven male writers to attempt to produce a rpg sourcebook about shoujo

Sounds like a winner. But bear in mind that if it's devoted to the sparkly, magical, bishoujo, wand-waving, transforming, fuku-wearing type of shoujo, they probably do have the advantage. *cough*

Je m'en fous. I want to let loose (rather than declaiming on a private lj to people you know are your friends, mm?)

Yes, but but but! That's your other option: "Go, my hapless LJ minions! Charbroil that person's foolish ass for me so that I may rest unsullied above the fray." No knowledge of the subject is required for anyone, fun melee action for all. Vachement spiffy.

[incandescens]

It amuses me somewhat that my idea of fun shoujo roleplay involves brandishing huge swords and having life-or-death moments and severe angstful/emotional crises and dark traumatic memories, while theirs seems to be more along the lines of boyfriend problems and school misery. Not that both aren't shoujo, but . . .

[zamiel.livejournal.com]

You realize that I, while snide, cruel, petty, and utterly no-holds-barred have not weighed in? That very well may be because I was originally on the Other Product team and was run off for having ideas that weren't sufficiently mechanics-crunchy for Hopcroft and his pathetic cronies.

Its worth noting that the only other team member who agreed with me was the sole female.

So, HSF became my Labour of Hate. And I feel wonderfully satisfied, since our pre-order sales dwarf his first-three-month sales.

Thus, let him blow. He just buys us more sales.

[incandescens]

Let us hope for an even more crushing demonstration of our worth after our first three months. And you have a point -- I hadn't thought about the worth of this as advertising to those who dislike him.

[zamiel.livejournal.com]

To suggest he is "unliked" is like suggesting I'm "unliked" ... such an understatement that you moght as well declare yourself Popess and note it as in cathedra speech.

Assuming we can get the right words in the right ears at the right rhythm, we can keep sales going pretty steady. Just need to get the anime fan contingent, specifically the online shoujo communities, into it as a reference text.

[incandescens]

But I like understatement -- it lets me get sarcastic. ;)

[archangelbeth]

Sarcastic understatement is a elegant pastime that, alas, is so rarely done right these days.

There, there. Living well is the best revenge.

[adamjury.livejournal.com]

Well, at this point, I suggest that you have probably sold about, oh, at least 5 times the number of books he had sold after the same amount of time his game had been out.

And that's counting the nearly 100 that Grey Ghost took on consignment that poor Ann is probably still stuck with.

[incandescens]

(blinks) Okay. I hadn't realised it was that bad on his end.

[adamjury.livejournal.com]

I believe he posted his sales figures for the print edition on The Forge at one point - in a panic, I suspect ;) - and through extrapolation, I know more-or-less what his stuff sells on RPGNow. It's small press, and he isn't doing horribly for small press, but while the industry is in the current state, breaking through from "small press" to "company that can support even one person" is not very likely.

[solaas.livejournal.com]

Clearly he must suffer. Shall I spread the rumour of his extreme fighting prowess in the hopes that a certain magician will pick it up? :)

[incandescens]

Don't tempt me. ;)

[solaas.livejournal.com]

Just say when. ;)