http://robot-mod.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] robot-mod.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] thatrainbowcity2009-11-27 03:01 am

HMD [A - K]

HMD [A - K]

Those who gave their names or nicknames on their applications and the Taken Character List as starting with A through K, please post here.


How's My Driving?
[PROCEED]


IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE! HMD, HMD! HOW'S MY DRIVING? PRETTY GOOD, RIGHT? AREN'T YOU THANKFUL?! GOBBLE IT UP, POLYCHROMATIDS~!!

Welcome back to our more seasoned members, and welcome to you first-timers.

HMD is the gamewide chance for feedback on playing here in [livejournal.com profile] polychromatic.

And here's our philosophy on HMD: praise--it's all well and good (we all love it, yeah?), so if you want to give praise, love, ♥s, whatever, go for it! It's especially great to say what you ♥ so much about a character. For example, how they acted during X curse or Y plot was great, or how they adjusted (or didn't?) to the City was fascinating. But we all know, constructive crit is best when you're looking for advice on how to improve. What we really encourage here are questions. It gives you the chance to maybe understand something, (and maybe you think it makes sense after all now), and the player a chance to explain. For example:

"How did Gary get from Point A in canon to Point B in Poly? It didn't quite make sense to me."

"What started this whole fascination of Sue's with the bananas?"

And then you find out that there's a long, involved story that goes back six months involving the aftermath of a curse, a lizard, a pound of potatoes, a watermelon, three French maids, and a pogo stick. And then it all makes perfect sense.

Or perhaps it doesn't, but you've started a dialogue about the things you perceive versus the things the player perceives.

As decided by community vote, anon is not allowed here on the main HMD post, and IP logging is on. Sorry, Anon. However, we encourage posting a link to your own, personal, anon-enabled crit thread(s) if allowing anon is something you want to do and are comfortable with. But keep in mind that we moderators can't police those crit threads: not only are they anon, but they are on your own journals, and there are dozens of them. But we entreat members of this game to be polite and courteous, logged in or not. We will be watching the main post for any unrest, however, so keep that in mind. (We like to watch.) Let's all keep ourselves like civilized people, and have a decent time. Remember, no road rage in HMD.

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And because it's apparently traditional for HMD posts to go up in the middle of the damn night, here we are. =_=v

SRS BSNS

[identity profile] only-fell.livejournal.com 2009-11-27 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
First of all, I want you to MARVEL at the fact that I am NOT going *flails all over your face*

*clears throat* This is SRS BSNS time.

Lorne: I think you do a fantastic job with Lorne. So much of the time when he's written people get tied up in the Angelcakes and Babydoll etc etc and you don't really get any of *Lorne* in there. You manage to strike a really nice balance between all the outlandishness of him and yet still give him a sort of grounded-ness. I've talked to you before with other characters about how you do this amazing balance thing with all your guys so that they're really rounded. You do the same thing here with Lorne.

Priestly: Okay, now marvel at my restraint because you KNOW how much I love the multicolored retard. It is very hard for me not to just squeal like a girl. With Priestly, you took this kind of two dimensional, outlandish, sweet, idiot from the movie and really have completely and utterly turned him into someone with layers and a history and all kinds of *real* qualities because it would be so very easy for Priestly to just be a caricature. You've fleshed him out totally and while I adore all of your guys to bits, he's easily my favorite one.

Re: SRS BSNS

[identity profile] zombitard.livejournal.com 2009-11-28 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
*MARVELS*

Thank you! I take a long time to write him, and I'm not sure if that's exactly a good thing, but he's the most difficult character I write for that reason. So that means a ton that he does come off correctly because I work pretty hard on him.

The multicolored retard loves you too. He's become so much more than I expected and he's slowly launching himself to the top of my enjoyable-to-play list. He takes much less effort but obviously since I whine to you about him all the time, no less thought. You've helped me figure him out a lot, especially with the layering and all that. So y'know, it's your fault too! ;)