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  <title>Ding!</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:26:01 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>About Me Meme</title>
  <author>merlinsone@gmail.com</author>  <link>http://mmorpgsforlife.livejournal.com/101924.html</link>
  <description>First name: My given name is Kenneth, but I only get called that in formal situations.  Even when I was in trouble at home, I never got the &quot;I will call you by your full name and you will know it means DOOOOOM!&quot; treatment.  Still, I&apos;m extremely fond of the name for several reasons, not the least of which being the history behind it.  I&apos;m the 4th, so I have the same name as my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.  It makes me feel special.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve been called many things in life, but the nicknames that have stuck (and the names I am most likely to respond to) are Ken, Kenny, Sparky, and Kyvar.  In one of the classes I teach, the kids call me Yonsei, which I think translates to some combination of &quot;Four&quot; and &quot;Teacher,&quot; because there&apos;s a lot of confusion as to what my last name technically is here ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Age: I am 22, will be 23 in March.  22 is a scary age.  You&apos;re past the last milestone in a teenager&apos;s life.  Yes, I get that the teens ended with 19, but when I was a teenager, 21 year olds were close enough to still qualify in my book.  Now I&apos;m 22.  I&apos;m an adult.  This is somewhat troubling for the Eternal Child in me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Location: I currently live in the heart of Mito, the capital city of Ibaraki prefecture, Japan.  It&apos;s very urban.  And very different from the country world I was used to back home.  At home, it took 20 minutes by car to go to the grocery store.  It took 45 minutes by car to go anywhere worth going.  Here, it takes 7 minutes on foot to go to the grocery store.  I am 15 minutes from a train station that is 1 hour from Tokyo.  I have it really good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Occupation: I am an ALT, Assistant Language Teacher.  I got the job through the JET Programme, the Japan Exchange and teaching Programme.  It&apos;s not what I was expecting, actually.  I love teaching, I&apos;ve come to realize that.  The look on a kid&apos;s face when they suddenly understand something is great.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Partner: I had 2 girlfriends in high school.  Each relationship lasted about 2 weeks.  I&apos;m not mature enough to be in a relationship.  I&apos;m far too selfish.  And my attention span is too short.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kids: None as of now.  I really want to have kids, someday.  Obstacles in the way right now, but...  We&apos;ll see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brothers/Sisters: I have an older sister, Alexis.  We were really close growing up, we weren&apos;t allowed to fight.  We&apos;re still really close now.  Even though we live 5 hours away from each other.  The dynamic was always her looking out for me and me looking to her for support.  Things are changing, we&apos;ll see what happens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pets: None in Japan.  Back in the States, we have 2 dogs (Bristol, a Lhasa Apso/Tibetan Spaniel mix and Atlas, a Bischon Frise) and 4 cats (Phantom, Turtle, Mitzi, and Sundae).  We also have a bear that visits the house from time to time and eats our bird seed, but I don&apos;t think he counts as a pet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;List the 3 biggest things going on in your life:&lt;br /&gt;1. JET.  I think that goes without saying.  I had never lived away from home before, and my first step of independence is on the other side of the world.  If I survive my contract, I think I&apos;ll be okay living on my own in the States.  Living on my own is not bad.  I have a very strong support base anytime I need it via my family and the internet.  Life could be better, I&apos;ve hit a point where I&apos;m praying that I don&apos;t get any more bills before my next paycheck.  I know where the money is going, but I can&apos;t justify not spending it without feeling awful inside.  But life could be a lot worse.  I have a job, a place to live, food, heat, a family that loves me and friends who are always willing to say something supportive in hard times. So I can&apos;t really complain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Werewolf.  I&apos;ve given up on being a good player and I&apos;m going to be a great moderator instead.  There&apos;s an epic game scheduled for January 11th that I&apos;m going to run.  Players create their own roles and I make a game out of it and make sure it doesn&apos;t go burning to the ground.  If it goes off with any amount of success, I&apos;ll feel worthy of the Wolf of the Week title, at least in an honorary way.  New Wolves of the Week are coming through the ranks that I barely know, and it&apos;s leaving a bit of a sting that I can&apos;t play this game well while so many others just pick it up with ease.  If Pure Chaos is a success, I&apos;ll be a happy &quot;veteran&quot; :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Japan.  I&apos;m trying to learn Japanese and failing.  But it&apos;s a big part of my life, so there it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parents: My mother and father are still alive, still married.  I was worried that when my sister and I moved out, they would grow apart, since they had us almost immediately after they got married, and we were the reason their marriage was still there.  But I was happily wrong.  He adores her.  She loves him.  It&apos;s a good match.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who are some of your closest friends?&lt;br /&gt;Alex and Alexis are the two closest, then the Werewolf community, Dave, and Atra.  I&apos;m not really a social person though.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:06:57 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I win!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have finally worked up the courage to hold a (very horribly simple and incorrect) conversation in Japanese!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, it took months.  I don&apos;t care.  Better late than never yes?</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:27:41 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Wheeee!</title>
  <author>merlinsone@gmail.com</author>  <link>http://mmorpgsforlife.livejournal.com/101300.html</link>
  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Japan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow.&amp;nbsp; Hard to adapt.&amp;nbsp; But so far so good.&amp;nbsp; We&apos;ll see when things get really busy.&amp;nbsp; Climbing Fuji on Saturday!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Werewolf&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m getting rather irritated.&amp;nbsp; I signed up to co-mod a game because the mod was being slow during a time when I could assist.&amp;nbsp; I don&apos;t know the rules (it&apos;s a Play By Forum of an actual game) but all I was going to do was help with vote tallies and behind the scenes stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the mod has all but disappeared, leaving me to run the whole thing by myself.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m constantly screwing things up with one player, I totally ignored one section of the rules and had to redo a turn, and am generally being a sucky mod.&amp;nbsp; But I never intended to run the damn game!&amp;nbsp; Now I&apos;m getting a reputation for not knowing what to do as a mod and not paying attention to detail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s just fucking frustrating.&amp;nbsp; And no one signs up for games I plan on modding solo anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:14:20 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JAPAN!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SATURDAY!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:58:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Staying up late while I can...</title>
  <author>merlinsone@gmail.com</author>  <link>http://mmorpgsforlife.livejournal.com/100751.html</link>
  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JET&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 weeks.&amp;nbsp; 2 freaking weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beta Reading&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m signed up for the Beta Readers community on ff.net because, hey, it&apos;s fanfiction, and I like reading and editing. &amp;nbsp;And stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got an e-mail from a guy who is trying to write a novel and wants feedback on the first chapter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How much feedback is appropriate?&amp;nbsp; Is it okay to say &amp;quot;Your sentences sound like you&apos;re trying too hard for elegance.&amp;quot;? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Staying Up Late&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I should stop staying up very very late.&amp;nbsp; Cohesive thoughts elude me at 5 in the morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:18:58 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Right.</title>
  <author>merlinsone@gmail.com</author>  <link>http://mmorpgsforlife.livejournal.com/100379.html</link>
  <description>Jason is visiting.  Jason is sometimes very cool.  Jason is a gamer.  This gives him cool credits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However.  Whenever playing a game with Jason, he has an annoying habit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jason: &quot;I cast Humility on that, it becomes an 0/1 until the end of the turn and loses all it&apos;s abilities, and kill it.&quot; *snicker/snort*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, whenever playing a game with anyone, I know that they are not fools and likely have a strategy that they are working to implement and beat me with.  And that&apos;s fine.  The snort/snicker after EVERY GODDAMN STRATEGIC MOVE is annoying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like, reach across table, choke, and bash head against table annoying.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:43:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Werewolf</title>
  <author>merlinsone@gmail.com</author>  <link>http://mmorpgsforlife.livejournal.com/100224.html</link>
  <description>Rant on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I can&apos;t post this on the WW boards since it doesn&apos;t do anything besides make me feel better for 2 minutes then guilty later, and then cause hard feelings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I have to fucking put it somewhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Xandryyte wrote:  &quot;Q also knows full well how lynchable I am... Heck, everyone knows that last point... sigh.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone has buttons.  When those buttons get pushed, we get angry.  The Summon Xand Vote is one of Xand&apos;s.  (FTR: Xand is almost silent in all of her games.  The only way to get her to talk is to try to get her lynched.  Then she&apos;ll lash out at the nearest person.  You push people to lynch by voting for them.  Thus, voting for Xand summons her.)  It&apos;s gotten to the point where I won&apos;t even bother voting for her if she&apos;s not posting.  It&apos;s not worth the drama when she flies in shrieking about how stupid we all are to even consider voting her when she hasn&apos;t done anything suspicious all game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &quot;I&apos;m so easy to lynch!  Woe is me!  You&apos;re all bullies!&quot; line, however, really fucking pisses me off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I get it.  It&apos;s never fun to get lynched out of a game.  The players are basically saying &quot;We don&apos;t think you&apos;re good.  Die.&quot;  And if you aren&apos;t in any other games, you are gameless.  And that&apos;s a bummer because the WW community is really great.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But let&apos;s take a look at how easy it is to get Xand lynched.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking at all the games that she is in, and the last 9 games she&apos;s been in.  In chronological order from oldest to most recent:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;849) TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN: Night 1 (Out of a 1 day game)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;850) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Heads will roll!: Day 2 (Out of a 4 day game)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;851) Auto-mod: Debug 2 - Wolf and Evil Priest: Night 3	(Out of a 5 day game)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;852) Clinical Depression: Night 3 (Out of a 6 day game)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;854) Ultimate Showdown: Night 6	(Out of a 7 day game)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;855) The Spirit of Werewolf Games past: Never died (Out of a 4 day game)	&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;858) Auto-mod: Debug Game 1 - 2 Wolves: Day 3	(Out of a 5 day game)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;859) Sailor Moon Redux: Never died (Out of a 7 day game)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;861) Secret Passages (11 posts) Game In Progress (Still alive, Day 3)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;862) Flight of the Conchords (17 posts) Game In Progress (Still alive, Day 4)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;863) Auto-mod: Exotic Eleven (14 posts) Game In Progress (Still alive, Day 4)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;864) Trouble on Mt. Olympus (14 posts) 	Game In Progress (Still alive, Day 4)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;865) The Return of Viva Las Vegas! (17 posts) Game In Progress (Still alive, Day 4)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;866) Silence, I kill you!: Never died (Out of a 2 day game)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m sorry Xand.  I don&apos;t see how easy it is to lynch you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SO SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH THE I ALWAYS GET LYNCHED BULLCRAP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;End Rant.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:38:36 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>This one was pretty fun</title>
  <author>merlinsone@gmail.com</author>  <link>http://mmorpgsforlife.livejournal.com/99686.html</link>
  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				        Your result for Which fantasy writer are you?...&lt;br /&gt;				        &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Robert Jordan (1948-2007)&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;-9 High-Brow,  -1 Violent,  -21 Experimental and  1 Cynical!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:center&quot;&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/0x0/0x0/0/9712879363310999586.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; height=&quot;601&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Congratulations! You are Low-Brow, Peaceful, Traditional and Cynical! These concepts are defined below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robert Jordan, the pen name for James Oliver Rigney, Jr, was the author of the best-selling &lt;em&gt;Wheel of Time&lt;/em&gt; series. This gargantuan piece of fiction, set in a world where half the source of magic has been tainted by the Evil One, so that only women can do magic without turning insane, was published between 1990 and 2005. It is scheduled to be finished by 2011 by author Brandon Sanderson, who will be working from Jordan&apos;s extensive notes, since the latter&apos;s tragic and premature death in cardiac amyloidosis made it impossible for him to finish the series by himself.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fantasy readers across the world will remember Jordan as the creator of one of the most detailed secondary worlds ever imagined by a single person, with carefully crafted cultures, legends and conflicts. This he used as the setting for a grand epic tale of the traditional fantasy theme of Good against Evil and seemingly insignificant people discovering that they are destined to play an important role in this struggle. Although the plot centres around conflict and several important characters are warriors, be it by choice or necessity, Jordan does not bask in gory details of violence and war is described as something evil that essentially does more harm than good. However, he is able to discern the forces that might push countries into conflict, leaving little room for over-romantic notions of ever-lasting peace.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All this makes Jordan&apos;s epic tale the choice for those who are not daunted by the scope and length of what is, perhaps, the longest story ever written. There are plenty who would say that it is also one of the best.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;You are &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;also a lot like &lt;span style=&quot;color:#000000;&quot;&gt;J K Rowling.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;If you want &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;some action&lt;/span&gt;, try David Eddings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;If you&apos;d like a challenge, try &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;your exact opposite&lt;/span&gt;, Gene Wolfe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Your score&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;This is how to interpret your score: Your attitudes have been measured on four different scales, called 1) High-Brow vs. Low-Brow, 2) Violent vs. Peaceful, 3) Experimental vs. Traditional and 4) Cynical vs. Romantic. Imagine that when you were born, you were in a state of innocence, a &lt;em&gt;tabula rasa &lt;/em&gt;who would have scored zero on each scale. Since then, a number of circumstances (including genetical, cultural and environmental factors) have pushed you towards either end of these scales. If you&apos;re at 45 or -45 you would be almost entirely cynical, low-brow or whatever. The closer to zero you are, the less extreme your attitude. However, you should &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; be more of either (eg more romantic than cynical). Please note that even though High-Brow, Violent, Experimental and Cynical have positive numbers (1 through 45) and their opposites negative numbers (-1 through -45), this doesn&apos;t mean that either quality is better. All attitudes have their positive and negative sides, as explained below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;High-Brow vs. Low-Brow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You received -9 points, making &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#ffffff;&quot;&gt;you more &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;Low-Brow &lt;/span&gt;than High&lt;/span&gt;-Brow. Being high-browed in this context refers to being more fascinated with the sort of art that critics and scholars tend to favour, while a typical low-brow would favour the best-selling kind. &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;At their best&lt;/span&gt;, low-brows are honest enough to read what they like, regardless of what &quot;experts&quot; and academics say is good for&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;them. &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;At their worst&lt;span style=&quot;color:#000000;&quot;&gt;, they are more likely to read what their neighbours like than what they would choose themselves&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Violent vs. Peaceful&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;You received -1 points, making you more &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;Peaceful &lt;/span&gt;than Violent.  This scale is a measurement of a) if you are tolerant to violence in fiction and b) whether you see violence as a means that can be used to achieve a good end. If you aren&apos;t, and you don&apos;t, then you are peaceful as defined here. &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;At their best&lt;/span&gt;, peaceful people are the ones who encourage dialogue and understanding as a means of solving conflicts. &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;At their worst&lt;/span&gt;, they are standing passively by as they or third parties are hurt by less scrupulous individuals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Experimental vs. Traditional&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;You received -21 points, making you more &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;Traditional &lt;/span&gt;than Experimental. Your position on this scale indicates if you&apos;re more likely to seek out the new and unexpected or if you are more comfortable with the familiar, especially in regards to culture. Note that traditional as defined here does not equal conservative, in the political sense. &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;At their best&lt;/span&gt;, traditional people don&apos;t change winning concepts, favouring storytelling over empty poses. &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;At their worst&lt;/span&gt;, they are somewhat narrow-minded.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Cynical vs. Romantic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;You received 1 points, making you more &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;C&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;ynical &lt;/span&gt;than Romantic. Your position on this scale indicates if you are more likely to be wary, suspicious and skeptical to people around you and the world at large, or if you are more likely to believe in grand schemes, happy endings and the basic goodness of humankind. It is by far the most vaguely defined scale, which is why you&apos;ll find the sentence &quot;you are also a lot like &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;&quot; above. If you feel that your position on this scale is wrong, then you are probably &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; like author &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;At their best&lt;/span&gt;, cynical people are able to see through lies and spot crucial flaws in plans and schemes. &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;At their worst&lt;/span&gt;, they are overly negative, bringing everybody else down.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:x-small;&quot;&gt;Author picture from Wikipedia. Licensed under the following conditions: &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/&quot;&gt;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/which-fantasy-writer-are-you&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				        Take Which fantasy writer are you?&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.helloquizzy.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color:#131313&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#ac000c&quot;&gt;H&lt;/span&gt;ello&lt;span style=&quot;color:#ac000c&quot;&gt;Q&lt;/span&gt;uizzy&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:16:45 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Random&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&apos;t know who originally coined it, but one of my favorite phrases lately has been: &amp;quot;My mind.&amp;nbsp; She is blown.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It amuses me greatly.&amp;nbsp; Hee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 16:49:54 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For the Creative Out There&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://onlinecollegedegree.org/2009/04/28/100-excellent-online-tools-to-feed-your-creativity/&quot;&gt;http://onlinecollegedegree.org/2009/04/28/100-excellent-online-tools-to-feed-your-creativity/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looked interesting.&amp;nbsp; Give it a poke if you lie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 17:01:52 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;JET Program&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got the e-mail from the JET program today!&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ve been hired by the Ibaraki-ken Board of Ed., so I&apos;ll likely be teaching at the high school level somewhere in the Ibaraki prefecture!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s getting closer!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 15:00:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <author>merlinsone@gmail.com</author>  <link>http://mmorpgsforlife.livejournal.com/98700.html</link>
  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Everybody Loves a Good Meme&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;Instructions: You can ONLY answer YES or NO. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone messages or comments you and asks. And believe me, the temptation to explain some of these will be overwhelming... thing is exactly as it seems. It is harder than it looks. But NO explanations !!! You will want to...But don&apos;t!!! Copy and paste this into your notes, delete my answers, type in your answers, and tag as many of your friends as you&apos;d like to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Kissed any one of your Facebook friends?--- YES&lt;br /&gt; Kissed any one of your Livejournal friends?--- NO&lt;br /&gt; Been arrested? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Kissed someone you didn&apos;t like? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Slept in until 5 PM? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Fallen asleep at work/school? ---&amp;nbsp; YES&lt;br /&gt; Held a snake? -- YES&lt;br /&gt; Ran a red light? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Been suspended from school? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Experienced love at first sight? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Totaled your car in an accident? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Been fired from a job? -- YES&lt;br /&gt; Fired somebody? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Sang karaoke? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Pointed a gun at someone? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Done something you told yourself you wouldn&apos;t? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? ---&amp;nbsp; YES&lt;br /&gt; Caught a snowflake on your tongue? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Kissed in the rain? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Had a close brush with death (your own)? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Seen someone die? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Played spin-the-bottle? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Sang in the shower? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Smoked a cigar? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Sat on a rooftop? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Taken pictures of yourself naked? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Smuggled something into another country? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes? ---&amp;nbsp; NO&lt;br /&gt; Broken a bone? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Skipped school? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Eaten a bug? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Sleepwalked? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Walked a moonlit beach? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Ridden a motorcycle? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Dumped someone? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Forgotten your anniversary? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Lied to avoid a ticket? ---&amp;nbsp; NO&lt;br /&gt; Flown in a helicopter? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Shaved your head? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Played a prank on someone? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Hit a home run? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Felt like killing someone? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Cross-dressed? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Been falling-down drunk? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Made your girlfriend/boyfriend cry? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Eaten snake? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Marched/Protested? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Had Mexican jumping beans for pets? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Puked on amusement ride? ---&amp;nbsp; NO&lt;br /&gt; Seriously &amp;amp; intentionally boycotted something? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Been in a band? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Knitted? ---&amp;nbsp; NO&lt;br /&gt; Shot a gun? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Skinny-dipped? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Caused someone to need stitches? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Eaten a whole habenero pepper? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Ridden a surfboard? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Drank straight from a liquor bottle? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Had surgery? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Streaked? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Taken by ambulance to hospital? ---&amp;nbsp; NO&lt;br /&gt; Passed out when drinking? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Peed on a bush? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Donated Blood? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Grabbed electric fence? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Eaten alligator meat? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Eaten cheesecake? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Eaten Snails? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Killed an animal when not hunting? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Peed your pants in public? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Snuck into a movie without paying? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Written graffiti? --- NO&lt;br /&gt; Still love someone you shouldn&apos;t? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Think about the future? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Been in handcuffs? ---&amp;nbsp; NO&lt;br /&gt; Believe in love? --- YES&lt;br /&gt; Sleep on a certain side of the bed? ---&amp;nbsp; YES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to do it, go for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 22:47:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <author>merlinsone@gmail.com</author>  <link>http://mmorpgsforlife.livejournal.com/98492.html</link>
  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;College&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I graduated today!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I actually took pictures!&amp;nbsp; I shall post some.&amp;nbsp; I am in one. -_-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The members of Sigma Tau Delta got individually recognized (Or rather, the 6 of us [out of 900 assembled] that were there got to stand up).&amp;nbsp; It was major coolness.&amp;nbsp; We were all like o.o.&amp;nbsp; It was cute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But yes, I am no longer an undergrad!&amp;nbsp; Huzzah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chile&apos;s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went to Chile&apos;s for lunch to celebrate,&amp;nbsp; I had the Wings over Buffalo.&amp;nbsp; Om nom nom nom. Good nom nom.&amp;nbsp; And The El Presidente margarita.&amp;nbsp; And I finished my mom&apos;s Tequila Sunrise.&amp;nbsp; And the rest of my dad&apos;s margarita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was out like a light on the ride home. &amp;nbsp;And for 2 hours once we got home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 07:39:45 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Life Experiences&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just wow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 20:57:51 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Public Service Announcement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tequila burns if you choke on it.&amp;nbsp; Try not to inhale while swallowing to avoid unnecessary burning sensations in the throat and chest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mother&apos;s Day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Growing up in a Trekkie household has its advantages, like going to see Star Trek as the Mother&apos;s Day gift.&amp;nbsp; =D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I liked it a lot.&amp;nbsp; The characters were campy enough to match their ToS counterparts and real enough to believe.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m irritated with the plot, but that&apos;s another issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Overall, I liked it =D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 06:04:08 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;College&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tonight, I got inducted into SUNY New Paltz&apos;s chapter of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.english.org/sigmatd/&quot;&gt;Sigma Tau Delta&lt;/a&gt;, the International English Honors Society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ceremony was nice, each of the presenting professors introduced the inductees and said a bit about them.&amp;nbsp; professor Holland (who else?) introduced me, stating that I impressed her with my bravery in one course by writing on a tough topic (And it was hard.&amp;nbsp; But fun.) and in a other course by writing a paper about footnotes.&amp;nbsp; Which was insanely fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s scary when writing papers is fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So yay.&amp;nbsp; There was yummy cake too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 01:25:33 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attention World&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a sexy beast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:23:10 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It&apos;s a Small World&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guess whose boyfriend I ran into at the SUNY New Paltz Bookstore today?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The encounter was actually rather amusing.&amp;nbsp; My sister and I were picking up our caps and gowns (Graduate in May!) and the bookstore had set up a &amp;quot;Commencement&amp;quot; area.&amp;nbsp; So we asked for assistance and the guy at the front desk said he&apos;d call Liam out.&amp;nbsp; We waited for a minute and he came out and asked for our IDs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I looked at him.&amp;nbsp; And I looked at him again.&amp;nbsp; And again.&amp;nbsp; And my brain was all &amp;quot;...Liam...face...Liam...face...Liam...face...Li-&amp;nbsp;HOLY&amp;nbsp;SHIT&amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp;KNOW&amp;nbsp;THAT&amp;nbsp;GUY!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we asked and he was The Liam =D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s a small world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(I was all proud of my brain for making a Face to Name association too!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:34:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I Less Than 3 StumbleUpon</title>
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  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For the Authors&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;StumbleUpon must have had an aspiring author running through and thumbing sites, because I&apos;ve gotten more author stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Unique-Magic-System-for-Your-Book&quot;&gt;How to Create a Magic System&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seemed pretty good, actually.&amp;nbsp; Asked questions like &amp;quot;Who uses magic?&amp;nbsp; Everyone? Elite few? Supernatural creatures only?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suppose it&apos;s interesting because I don&apos;t have a plan when I write XD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:30:43 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;For all the authors out there&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because I got a chuckle out of it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nine.frenchboys.net/plottwist.php&quot;&gt;Plot Twist Generator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one I got was &amp;quot;Just then, a good natured psychologist pulls the plug.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m half tempted to write something about that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:44:43 GMT</pubDate>
  <author>merlinsone@gmail.com</author>  <link>http://mmorpgsforlife.livejournal.com/96030.html</link>
  <description>My eyes need to... something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was reading Wordsworth&apos;s Preface to Lyrical Ballads for Lit. Crit. and I swear one of the lines said &amp;quot;the power of human imagination is sufficient to produce such marshmallows.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yay for imaginary marshmallows?</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:16:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <author>merlinsone@gmail.com</author>  <link>http://mmorpgsforlife.livejournal.com/95871.html</link>
  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Procrastinating&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m a procrastinator.  I think that&apos;s fairly obvious by the fact that most of my posts are of the &amp;quot;I don&apos;t want to do this project that I&apos;ve left til the last minute!&amp;quot; variety.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I put off sleep.  Somehow, my brain has gotten the idea that I don&apos;t need sleep or something.  I just have no desire to sleep.  Unless I&apos;m already sleeping, then I have no desire to get up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&apos;s fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Werewolf&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, in order to stave off sleep, I&apos;m going to ramble about Werewolf for a while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Werewolf was originally a party game, and is probably best experienced face to face.  In the most basic game, the players make up the members of the village.  But some of the villagers are not as they seem!  They are actually vicious werewolves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The game is played in phases, Day and Night.  During the Day, everyone talks about who they suspect of being a werewolf.  Eventually, everyone votes for the person they think is most likely to be a werewolf.  The person with the most votes against them gets lynched by the angry mob and is removed from the game.  Then everyone gets to see whether the person was a werewolf or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the lynch, the village goes to sleep, everyone puts their head down, closes their eyes and the Night begins.  During the Night, the wolves open their eyes and agree upon a victim.  That person is eaten, and the wolves go back to sleep.  Then everyone wakes up, finds out who was killed during the night, and the next Day begins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The game ends when one of two things happens.  If all the werewolves are lynched, the game ends and the village wins!  However, if the wolves ever achieve parity with the remaining villagers, the wolves reveal themselves and massacre the remaining villagers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s a game of being able to read people, weave lies and see through those lies.  It&apos;s great fun, too.  But you have to be the type of person who doesn&apos;t take it personally when everyone thinks you&apos;re lying and wants you dead.  ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are roles that can be introduced to the game to make it more interesting.  For example, there is a seer role.  Every night, the seer chooses one person and is told whether or not that person is a werewolf.  There is a little girl role who can try to peek while the wolves are selecting their victim, but she has to be careful not to be seen or the wolves will kill her.  There&apos;s a hunter who can kill another player when he dies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I find the game to be great, but I&apos;m a miserable liar, so I kind of suck at it ;)  I also only play an online version of it, which makes it a bit different.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Games&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve come to the realization that while I love playing games, I love learning the rules to a game almost as much if not as much or more than actually playing it.&amp;nbsp; Give me a rulebook and I will devour it.&amp;nbsp; Somehow my brain will just play out the game without me having to when I read the rules.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s great.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I seriously get enjoyment out of reading rules to games.&amp;nbsp; I wonder if that&apos;s a marketable skill? ;)&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:52:42 GMT</pubDate>
  <author>merlinsone@gmail.com</author>  <link>http://mmorpgsforlife.livejournal.com/95380.html</link>
  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: xx-large;&quot;&gt;WE&amp;nbsp;GOT&amp;nbsp;ACCEPTED&amp;nbsp;TO&amp;nbsp;JET!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: xx-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: xx-large;&quot;&gt;WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:25:20 GMT</pubDate>
  <author>merlinsone@gmail.com</author>  <link>http://mmorpgsforlife.livejournal.com/95146.html</link>
  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Userpics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now I have new userpics!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SQUEE!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sparky is easily amused =D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <lj:mood>amused</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:57:16 GMT</pubDate>
  <author>merlinsone@gmail.com</author>  <link>http://mmorpgsforlife.livejournal.com/94915.html</link>
  <description>&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mood Theme&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got me a new mood theme.&amp;nbsp; It is Battlestar Galactica.&amp;nbsp; It was created by &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser ljuser-name_schmiss&apos; lj:user=&apos;schmiss&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://schmiss.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://schmiss.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;schmiss&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I am so happy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And really should be heading to bed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <lj:mood>jubilant</lj:mood>
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