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Tuujaimaa I've gotten the "You must wait at least 5/10/15 seconds between posts." notification pretty frequently on other sites...
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Something severe in the short-term, like at least requiring newbies to create a Newbie Introduction thread first.Would "I don't do introduction threads. This thread will be ignored from now onwards." constitute for a passable introduction thread?
Seriously, though, I don't think it's a restriction that should stay around, as much as I know there exist (and I have invited onto the site) people whom I know could have proper panic attacks from something as simple as making an introduction thread just anyone can reply to. Does not mean they're bad writers or roleplayers, or should be denied the ability to roleplay with friends.
PMs appear to be back now, though, for all that's worth.
Check your computer's time settings?
...Someone please give me a flamethrower?
I was actually not aware mods have an, eh, new user list (?), before Hank pointed it out. It's not really a standard for mods on most forum sites. But good to know.
Suffice to say, I'd still like to be able to do something other than just wait. I'm by no means a particularly orderly person (when it comes to not cluttering workspaces at least), but that's effectively enough of a mess for me to be willing to sacrifice a couple dozen minutes of my life to sort it out, if temporarily.
Suffice to say, I'd still like to be able to do something other than just wait. I'm by no means a particularly orderly person (when it comes to not cluttering workspaces at least), but that's effectively enough of a mess for me to be willing to sacrifice a couple dozen minutes of my life to sort it out, if temporarily.
Correction: I had seen those spells, but not read them (as much as it did not feel relevant at the time and I was preoccupied).
Should I push it up to the Compendium site, too when I get to it? (Think I've not updated the IC archive a while, too, though I do have the HTML copies sitting around.)
And heh... I generally used to draw during boring lessons. (I did not own a laptop before university, so it's not like I could've brought one with me ... in university I pretty much switched to doing homework or proper work at lectures.) That was pretty much the only way I could obtain that info, since otherwise, I admit, I generally just fell asleep... (And the human brain has a tendency to not store things experienced during sleep properly into long-term memory, which is why people often have hard time recalling sleep-type dreams fully, as well as any times they woke briefly during the night. Technically, your hearing and other senses will work as usual during dreams. As I've said before, being asleep is nothing like being unconscious.)
The brain also tends to have some kind of ... optimal level of being occupied, I suppose.
(Also, muscle-memory can be dangerous. I've seen a person utterly forget their bank pin because they accidentally consciously thought over it after having relied on their muscle-memory for years...)
Like noted before, subconscious processing will happily not only take over the more mechanical tasks, but often also complex analysis. Ever had it occur that a solution to something or a new approach to try or idea to insert in relation to something you've been working on just suddenly pops into your head even when you haven't been actively thinking on it? Yeah.
In conclusion, it really depends on what your definition of "think" is - is it having the focus of your conscious attention on something, or is it all (higher complex) analysis taking place within your mind? (Question is not fully rhetorical; for the sake of context, I'm actually curious. In turn, you should perhaps ask what they mean when they say "think" the next time a similar statement pops up...)
As for me, then I can listen to music in my head all I want, but much like visualization or hearing speech, it does require at least a measure of (semi-)conscious attention to uphold, so it won't exactly occur randomly. (I think the only times some piece of music has succeeded to annoy me would be when I couldn't immediately recall where those were from.) Similarly, I'd have to intentionally unravel a musical piece in my mind to hear only some persistent part of it, like only a few instruments or the vocals (since I often don't pay too much attention to vocals while casually listening, it might actually take me listening to the entire song in my head to figure out what the vocals are in the first place ... I've discovered that a couple of the few non-instrumentals in my main playlist actually have pretty weird messages after having listened them for a while and for whatever reason, suddenly deciding to pay attention or think over them).
I most commonly listen to music while working, actually, though I suppose for me it's mostly to start myself off (I actually tend to phase the music out once I'm focused on what I'm doing). I tend to be fairly good at phasing distractions around me out when I'm intently focusing on something in general, save for when someone, say, calls out my name or opts to stand by my table and look at me, which will cause whatever part of my subconsciousness deals with monitoring surroundings poke at me so I can go "Ah, what?" and consciously catch up on what happened. Of course, if I happen to be together with people who have taken it upon themselves to bother me in a way that actually demands I focus on them a bit, it can be rather disruptive and annoying...
I do occasionally take breaks on my own volition, though (well ... I am now, among other things), but I generally place those after some logical chunk or piece of work.
I occasionally also listen music for the sake of listening to it... I also tend to differentiate between music depending on context. A lot of it may fit a scene, but isn't really what I would listen on its own. Likewise, very little on my main playlist (which is a combination of what I'd term "listening-music" and what is the, eh, "working-music" - the first is generally a bit more varied and less uniform, I suppose? "Working-music" might be better off not particularly distracting, you see...) is what I'd term relaxing, since given my main uses for it, becoming more relaxed is actually heavily counterproductive. Worse would be music which induces feelings akin to melancholy... Curiously enough, a fair amount of those things people on Youtube like to label "inspirational" are crushingly melancholic. (Not all of them, obviously.)
Granted, a couple of titles tend to induce slightly melancholic feelings purely by association (such as the end titles of a couple of old games).
Incidentally, if I do listen to music while writing (I only sometimes do), then it's typically just my usual working/listening-music, and not anything that would set the mood (with rare exceptions - I actually idly tried to assign titles to the FDRR factions at one point), so chances are it's probably situationally inappropriate...
As a sidenote, I also recalled an article about how certain environmental elements tend to affect people's ability to remember what they were going to do. Entering a new room and even simply just going through a doorframe were a big one...
EDIT: I reckon you somehow messed up a couple of tags somewhere in there. Or it doesn't like the brackets you have around the words at some place. The front-end style-coding of this site is anything but robust.
See:
Test
[b][i]Test[/b][/i]
(Just swapping the closing tags breaks it...)
Should I push it up to the Compendium site, too when I get to it? (Think I've not updated the IC archive a while, too, though I do have the HTML copies sitting around.)
And heh... I generally used to draw during boring lessons. (I did not own a laptop before university, so it's not like I could've brought one with me ... in university I pretty much switched to doing homework or proper work at lectures.) That was pretty much the only way I could obtain that info, since otherwise, I admit, I generally just fell asleep... (And the human brain has a tendency to not store things experienced during sleep properly into long-term memory, which is why people often have hard time recalling sleep-type dreams fully, as well as any times they woke briefly during the night. Technically, your hearing and other senses will work as usual during dreams. As I've said before, being asleep is nothing like being unconscious.)
The brain also tends to have some kind of ... optimal level of being occupied, I suppose.
(Also, muscle-memory can be dangerous. I've seen a person utterly forget their bank pin because they accidentally consciously thought over it after having relied on their muscle-memory for years...)
It's for that same reason that I've always tended to look somewhat skeptically at people claiming (very confidently, too) that one can only think of one thing at the time.I'd reckon they specifically mean the conscious focus (or having your attention consciously be on something) when they speak of thinking, rather than, well, the general processing of info and analysis. In that they might not be too far off (depending a bit on the individual). If they mean general processing? Then they're objectively wrong.
Like noted before, subconscious processing will happily not only take over the more mechanical tasks, but often also complex analysis. Ever had it occur that a solution to something or a new approach to try or idea to insert in relation to something you've been working on just suddenly pops into your head even when you haven't been actively thinking on it? Yeah.
In conclusion, it really depends on what your definition of "think" is - is it having the focus of your conscious attention on something, or is it all (higher complex) analysis taking place within your mind? (Question is not fully rhetorical; for the sake of context, I'm actually curious. In turn, you should perhaps ask what they mean when they say "think" the next time a similar statement pops up...)
As for me, then I can listen to music in my head all I want, but much like visualization or hearing speech, it does require at least a measure of (semi-)conscious attention to uphold, so it won't exactly occur randomly. (I think the only times some piece of music has succeeded to annoy me would be when I couldn't immediately recall where those were from.) Similarly, I'd have to intentionally unravel a musical piece in my mind to hear only some persistent part of it, like only a few instruments or the vocals (since I often don't pay too much attention to vocals while casually listening, it might actually take me listening to the entire song in my head to figure out what the vocals are in the first place ... I've discovered that a couple of the few non-instrumentals in my main playlist actually have pretty weird messages after having listened them for a while and for whatever reason, suddenly deciding to pay attention or think over them).
I most commonly listen to music while working, actually, though I suppose for me it's mostly to start myself off (I actually tend to phase the music out once I'm focused on what I'm doing). I tend to be fairly good at phasing distractions around me out when I'm intently focusing on something in general, save for when someone, say, calls out my name or opts to stand by my table and look at me, which will cause whatever part of my subconsciousness deals with monitoring surroundings poke at me so I can go "Ah, what?" and consciously catch up on what happened. Of course, if I happen to be together with people who have taken it upon themselves to bother me in a way that actually demands I focus on them a bit, it can be rather disruptive and annoying...
I do occasionally take breaks on my own volition, though (well ... I am now, among other things), but I generally place those after some logical chunk or piece of work.
I occasionally also listen music for the sake of listening to it... I also tend to differentiate between music depending on context. A lot of it may fit a scene, but isn't really what I would listen on its own. Likewise, very little on my main playlist (which is a combination of what I'd term "listening-music" and what is the, eh, "working-music" - the first is generally a bit more varied and less uniform, I suppose? "Working-music" might be better off not particularly distracting, you see...) is what I'd term relaxing, since given my main uses for it, becoming more relaxed is actually heavily counterproductive. Worse would be music which induces feelings akin to melancholy... Curiously enough, a fair amount of those things people on Youtube like to label "inspirational" are crushingly melancholic. (Not all of them, obviously.)
Granted, a couple of titles tend to induce slightly melancholic feelings purely by association (such as the end titles of a couple of old games).
Incidentally, if I do listen to music while writing (I only sometimes do), then it's typically just my usual working/listening-music, and not anything that would set the mood (with rare exceptions - I actually idly tried to assign titles to the FDRR factions at one point), so chances are it's probably situationally inappropriate...
As a sidenote, I also recalled an article about how certain environmental elements tend to affect people's ability to remember what they were going to do. Entering a new room and even simply just going through a doorframe were a big one...
EDIT: I reckon you somehow messed up a couple of tags somewhere in there. Or it doesn't like the brackets you have around the words at some place. The front-end style-coding of this site is anything but robust.
See:
Test
[b][i]Test[/b][/i]
(Just swapping the closing tags breaks it...)
When it comes to spam of this scale, more active moderators wouldn't have made a difference.There were at least a few bots who were still going about posting four hours after they had been initially reported that I spotted, so at least the number of threads would have been fewer. More mods, faster reactions.
Auto-delete/autoban is extremely bad practice. As is forcing people to go through hoops to be able to post. (And suffice to say, I've seen my fair share of funky RP titles, including ones with a dozen special symbols on both sides. I've definitely seen those stars in RPs before.)
It's down to better bot-filter, more than three active mods, and better tools for mods.
It's down to better bot-filter, more than three active mods, and better tools for mods.
Just based on the rp's title I meant. And for those who are human and try to post with these character a warning will show up:"Title must be written in Latin letters" just as a temporary solution. OR a good one is to limit the number of RPs you can open the first days you join.A few people on the site actually do RP in Korean.
I know I have seen some info on the Shadow Image and associated spells, as well as their internal workings in the prophecy OoC, but not the current variant of it ... let me check whether it was in the text-bits salvaged from the old forum. Indeed, here:
There was a listing of additional Arcane words at some point (which I put on the Compendium site), but regrettably I've not seen a full listing of spells.
((Backup. Backup everything. I know I have everything I've ever written, drawn, played, photographed although I may not know where exactly... Many a thing has been lost in the voids of my backup storage... That's several terabites, so finding something with an obscure name may take time, to say the least.))
Oh, and my writing process does not have phases - there are no three separate passes. If anything, it's more like multithreading ... one thread is on the foreground, the two others are in background and either stopped and waiting for their turn or running subconsciously, and my consciousness is (occasionally quite rapidly) switching between them as need be? Does that make sense?
- Human consciousnesses are quite good at switching contexts. They're also notoriously bad at conscious parallel processing. Thusly, there is generally only one thing properly in focus, or under conscious attention, but to make up for that, the focus can (for the most part) be switched fairly easily (occasionally the thought you were trying to formulate may be lost when something intervenes). You sort of can multiple-focus, some people more than others, but it's difficult to uphold and generally tends to fall back to just your usual rapid context-switching. (Note that it's strictly about conscious focus - the less conscious parts can happily take over things like driving, walking, the actual physical typing when writing is concerned, even some calculations and analysis which isn't memorized ... the latter can be annoying in case people start asking where did the result come from.)
And yeah, the ... more experimental and consultational part of writing. I suppose I see it more as putting the general writing completely on standby until I have the info I need to continue? As in, I wouldn't exactly be in the writing-mode while I'm doing the research... "Taking a break from writing to [...]" is actually quite apt way to put it.
Edit:
On a random derivative thought, do you, for instance, ever get songs stuck in your head?
Furthermore certain spells that are "element-neutral" - that is, do not command a particular element to manifest - but nevertheless contain words in the spellcasting language that refers to an element will cause different effects for someone with that particular elemental affinity. In the Spectral Projection spell (Thoph setogar gohn jhoon, caihl brijhal caihl gothor, peigein brega, translating loosely into "Summon [the] projection owned [by] me, [which] pierces light [and] pierces shadow, [and let that] place [and this] become one") the inclusion of "gothor" (shadow) makes the spell manifest as Gerald's Shadow Image in someone with shadow-affinity (someone with light-affinity would get a third manifestation called Blinding Visage (a spell that creates an image of the caster that glows very brightly, blindingly so to most races, and which allows the caster to sense and speak through this, but not to cast magic, as Shadow Image does) due to the inclusion of the word "brijhal" (light)).
There was a listing of additional Arcane words at some point (which I put on the Compendium site), but regrettably I've not seen a full listing of spells.
((Backup. Backup everything. I know I have everything I've ever written, drawn, played, photographed although I may not know where exactly... Many a thing has been lost in the voids of my backup storage... That's several terabites, so finding something with an obscure name may take time, to say the least.))
Oh, and my writing process does not have phases - there are no three separate passes. If anything, it's more like multithreading ... one thread is on the foreground, the two others are in background and either stopped and waiting for their turn or running subconsciously, and my consciousness is (occasionally quite rapidly) switching between them as need be? Does that make sense?
- Human consciousnesses are quite good at switching contexts. They're also notoriously bad at conscious parallel processing. Thusly, there is generally only one thing properly in focus, or under conscious attention, but to make up for that, the focus can (for the most part) be switched fairly easily (occasionally the thought you were trying to formulate may be lost when something intervenes). You sort of can multiple-focus, some people more than others, but it's difficult to uphold and generally tends to fall back to just your usual rapid context-switching. (Note that it's strictly about conscious focus - the less conscious parts can happily take over things like driving, walking, the actual physical typing when writing is concerned, even some calculations and analysis which isn't memorized ... the latter can be annoying in case people start asking where did the result come from.)
And yeah, the ... more experimental and consultational part of writing. I suppose I see it more as putting the general writing completely on standby until I have the info I need to continue? As in, I wouldn't exactly be in the writing-mode while I'm doing the research... "Taking a break from writing to [...]" is actually quite apt way to put it.
Edit:
interestingly, I seem to have much harder mentally reproducing sounds than I have images
On a random derivative thought, do you, for instance, ever get songs stuck in your head?
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