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Captain_Cyran wrote:Geez....10 pages of this stuff....Hello by the way...I'm one of the few non-gay and not controlled by sexual urges guys you will see around here.

You've been neutered?

Darth Wong wrote:

Captain_Cyran wrote:Geez....10 pages of this stuff....Hello by the way...I'm one of the few non-gay and not controlled by sexual urges guys you will see around here.

You've been neutered?

No, just masturbate a lot...Of course I probably shouldn't have said that?

Sylvar Fyre wrote:

Larz wrote:I never understood the reasons behing taking theatre in college... if one just works at it they can learn to adlib, fake emotions, and memorize lines without having to pay over $1000. Does having a degree in theatre help to get theatre jobs or something?

I'm not an actor though. ;) I'm a techie. I get to learn lighting, sound, and costume design, how to make a light plot, how to read a light plot, I get to learn a lot of electrician stuff, play analysis, directing...techie stuff. :)

And actually, jobs in teatre are so hard to get, and it's unbelievably competative, that it just looks a hell of a lot better if you have some degrees under your belt.

I'm not saying that's a sure-fire way to get a job, as I have a friend, an actor, who has a phd in theatre, and he still has trouble finding work. I have another friend who is currently working on his masters, and he already won a Jeff award (the Chicago version of the Tony's). He's a techie though.

edit...i'm not even planning on going into theatre after college...hehehe

Finding a job in theater is though. Here (in Italy) no "standing" theater company will even consider you if you haven't a poece of paper... what is worse is, there are no theatre course in most universities and most non-uni theatre schools will consider you only if you have a prior "degree", getting you in an horrible beaurocratic loop. And even then, you have to get lucky and find people to introduce you.

Also, even an actor has to know the basics of the "techie stuff" and technicals like correct diction and pronuciation (sp?) so a little course is in order.

That said, I've only brushed the theater thingy, being only an amateur-level actor, and that only when I have time off from Physics courses.

Re: "techie stuff". Technicians don't necessarily learn jack about science.

Darth Wong wrote:Re: "techie stuff". Technicians don't necessarily learn jack about science.

I meant theatre techie stuff, like lights, costumes, etc. Techie for an actor, I mean... :lol:

Darth Wong wrote:Re: "techie stuff". Technicians don't necessarily learn jack about science.

I never said they did.

And Rennie's don't necessarily use science, so s'all good.
I'm a little turned off from the sciences however, seeing as how I nearly didnt graduate high school because I nearly failed biology...

Sylvar Fyre wrote:

Darth Wong wrote:Re: "techie stuff". Technicians don't necessarily learn jack about science.

I never said they did.

And Rennie's don't necessarily use science, so s'all good.
I'm a little turned off from the sciences however, seeing as how I nearly didnt graduate high school because I nearly failed biology...

what´s a rennie?

salm wrote:

Sylvar Fyre wrote:

Darth Wong wrote:Re: "techie stuff". Technicians don't necessarily learn jack about science.

I never said they did.

And Rennie's don't necessarily use science, so s'all good.
I'm a little turned off from the sciences however, seeing as how I nearly didnt graduate high school because I nearly failed biology...

what´s a rennie?

People who like to go to Rennesaince Festivals. I know a few rennies, though they tended to do well in the sciences

I've been to a "Rennisance Festival", except it was "Wild West Weekend" there. Think mideval-style buildings and cowboys on the street.

To quote an old friend

Light goes on, Light goes off
I'm paying five thousand a year to learn THAT?

Darth Wong wrote:Re: "techie stuff". Technicians don't necessarily learn jack about science.

I can vouch for that, esp in the computer industry. I am a low level computer tech, yet I know next to nothing about science, yet this does not mean I cannot become very good at what I do at a much higher level. The way I see it, Technicians are NCO's and have technical qualifications, and the degreed boffins {mainly the management types} are the orificers

Looks like I'm 10 pages late in jumping onto the bandwagon.
With that said; Welcome to SD.net Sylvar Fyre!

I'm probably late also, but

Welcome to SD.NET, Sylvar!


Wish you luck and I hope you enjoy this place.

Stormbringer wrote:
It's much simpler than that, they hate you Mike and so everything you do must be wrong. Not matter how much sense.

Since when did you speak for the entire SB board?
Minority trekkies bash Wong
Majority does not care.

EmperorMing wrote:

Stormbringer wrote:

aerius wrote:
3? Did I miss something? Who's the third female member here?

I think he's referring to Lusankya. She vanished a while back.

I was including Verilon. I was not paying attention to Lusankya.

It's been a while since I've looked at this thread...and I resent that. Muchly.

Larz wrote:Welcome... now don't worry about anybody, just remember the golden rule: Somewhere, somehow, we've all picked up a case of chronic insanity... so don't tap the glass when where sleeping, kay ... nah, where all just harmless (except for verilon, better watch out for him... hes scary)... but anyway, Welcome!

Heh heh

Dark Primus wrote:

Stormbringer wrote:
It's much simpler than that, they hate you Mike and so everything you do must be wrong. Not matter how much sense.

Since when did you speak for the entire SB board?
Minority trekkies bash Wong
Majority does not care.

What he said does carry weight. I haven't seen the name "Wong" mentioned in at least a month.

Kelly Antilles wrote:The easier answer is what instruments can I not play.
I'm not that good at strings, but I'm sure verilon would give you viola lessons.

And sure, I'll give private lessons. $125 and hour.

Heh; don't forget violin!

Larz wrote:And the thread that started out as a welcoming party has become a descusion about logical education vs artistical education and musical abilities... ... oh well. On the logical side my college major is Chemistry with a minor in Premed... so my logical base better be stronger than titanium at the end! However, I still do arts as a hobby (charcol/graphite drawings, poetry, music... and if I could afford the time and money I'd take up painting again). As for music... I play mainly the only worthy insturment, the guitar :: smacks Verilons viola playing skills :: Past that I can play simple clarinet, french horn (very out of practice), trumpet (extraordinarly out of practice), simple drums (on good days), some bass (electric...:: smacks verilons classical string insturment playing::... not classical bass) and if I can play simple Sitar, Banjo, and Mandoline (probably all spelled wrong). Arn't I so spezial!

*thwaps Larz* Hey! Anyways, as I haven't looked at this since page...1....I am a COmp Sci major with a Russian minor and I play violin and viola *smacks Larz' contemporary skills* and write fantasy (not lemons) and poetry, as well as music *thwaps Larz' contemporary skills again* and love it!

Sylvar Fyre wrote:

Larz wrote:An art major, self tatooing, female... I'd say theres some reason behind the stir

I'm bisexual, and with dredlocks too. Aren't I special.

And I'm a theatre/history major. Not art. But that's ok...I do draw.

Yay! Another rainbow-y one! (You must be intro'd to Alyrium and others, if not done already!)

Darth Wong wrote:

Kelly Antilles wrote:

Stormbringer wrote: I think so far she's mearly testing the waters as it were. Theres been a lot of SD.net bashing going on at spacebattles.com.

See, something I was not aware of. That makes some since.

There's been a lot of that going on forever. My favourite was the way they bragged that their board moderators didn't abuse the WCOTC Nazis the way we did ... as if a lenient policy toward white-supremacists is something to be proud of. Anything to claim some kind of tribal superiority, I suppose ...

Maybe another reason for me NOT to go there...

Well, we did start some anti-WCOTC threads, but our admin closed all of them. Arminius and Cabal trolled around our forums but our members basically argued them back to their own boards, although Arminius occasionally posts from time to time (He's mellowed out a bit).


I think what they meant by not abusing the nazis was editing their posts. I've looked around here and saw that some of the WCOTC people's posts and profiles were changed into stuff like "Donkey-raper" or "Asshole". The people over at SB didn't edit the intruders' posts or their profiles. Basically we sent them packing with our words.


I'm not trying to put down any one board here. It's just that SB is more laid back, the admin staff I mean. Also it's like the United States; there are more people there and of greater variety too, so things can often get quite chaotic.

Here everyone's a Star Wars fan, so you have some uniformity and stability here. Also the admin staff is more involved (Darth Wong/Admiral Kanos comes to mind).


That's my take on our two forums. Call me a liason, if you wish ^_^

verilon wrote:

Darth Wong wrote:

Kelly Antilles wrote: See, something I was not aware of. That makes some since.

There's been a lot of that going on forever. My favourite was the way they bragged that their board moderators didn't abuse the WCOTC Nazis the way we did ... as if a lenient policy toward white-supremacists is something to be proud of. Anything to claim some kind of tribal superiority, I suppose ...

Maybe another reason for me NOT to go there...

yeah, same with me. most of them a too right winged.

Dark Primus wrote:

Stormbringer wrote:
It's much simpler than that, they hate you Mike and so everything you do must be wrong. Not matter how much sense.

Since when did you speak for the entire SB board?
Minority trekkies bash Wong
Majority does not care.

I don't speak for SB.com but I am member and have seen what goes on there. They made a SD.net vs SB.com thread that was no more than an excuse to make attacks on Mike.

They may be a minority but they are a vocal and active minority. They've got a grudge against Mike and take any chance they have to bash him, his site, and this message board.

Stormbringer wrote:They may be a minority but they are a vocal and active minority. They've got a grudge against Mike and take any chance they have to bash him, his site, and this message board.

Of course, because they prefer that kind of weaselly bullshit to the much more manly but foolish approach of challenging me directly and then getting their asses kicked.