02 Mar 2011
by Nikkiin tech Tags: 4 replies, entry 1, football, i really do hate that dome, twitter game
So Travis has this game going on, and, to sum it up, basically the trick is to see how many spam @replies you can generate from one tweet. Obviously, I probably win forever due to my 60+ mentions a few months back, but, hey, I have no record of it anymore.
I do, however, have a new entry! One tweet, four spam replies!
And here’s my proof!
And, yes, I really do hate that dome.
12 Dec 2010
by Nikkiin tech, tv Tags: john/helen, sanctuary
Okay, maybe I’m a little obsessed. But it’s John/Helen! That makes it justified, right?
So now, not only does my twitter pic have John and Helen being shippy (from that same scene, even), I have given up sleep to ensure that my iPod is plastered in the Sanctuary love. And, oh god, to make matters worse, what did I set my netbook’s background to last month? The Sanctuary logo. I had even gone so far to install a black (and pink – closest I could get to red) theme so that it didn’t clash with the background.
Okay, so I am really obsessed.
This will only last a little awhile, right?
ETA: So, yeah, I woke up this morning and decided to fix the lopsidedness of the lock screen. That and the fact that I typed in the quote wrong (John does not say have) really bugged me. And the font! I had previously used the font for twitter display pic and, well, that kinda bothered me too. Font overuse is kinda annoying, but mostly it was my brain going ‘but you used that font for Helen so why is John using it?’ Illogical, yes, but there you have it.
So now John’s speech is in a Jane Austen font I must have stolen from somewhere god knows when. Tee hee.
Hmm, my really crappy clonestamp clouds are rather obvious when you take away the foreground stuff, hey? Oh well – it looks fine on the iPod.
12 Sep 2009
by Nikkiin tech Tags: computer
I’ve finally, finally bought a new computer. It is something I’ve been meaning to do since the beginning of this year (and even earlier, to tell you the truth). My old HP laptop was acquired early in the beginning of my first year of university. I’m entering, sorta, my fourth. That really should be all that needs to be said – whilst my laptop was rather powerful (and overpriced) for its time (and status as a laptop, not a desktop), it does not have the power I need in a computer. Especially since the battery is completely shot (it holds a charge for a minute and thirty seconds – my brother timed it) so it doesn’t even have the benefit of being portable (that’s what the eee pc is for).
Thus, a new computer was desperately needed. One that can handle my ridiculously oversized files in Photoshop and be able to multitask with twhirl, pidgin, chrome and iTunes running in the background.
Also, I bought the Sims 3 on release day and nearly died of horror when I realised that my laptop took as long to load the Sims 3 as the old desktop, the second computer we owned, took to load the Sims 1.
An upgrade was more than necessary at that point.
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30 Jul 2009
by Nikkiin tech Tags: experiment, roleplaying, twitter
It’s readily apparent from the list of people I’m following on Twitter that I rather like to follow fictional characters – in fact, 19% of the people I follow are fictional! (Another 44% are celebrity types (mostly not-exactly-celebrities-but-I-don’t-know-them-anyway webcomic types), 11% are services like Best Buy tweeting me their flyer and the remaining 26% are people I do know.) Believe it or not, I’m actually pretty choosy with the fictional characters I follow, though nothing would make me happier if someone would start up accounts for Sam, Jack, Daniel and Teal’c. (And maybe Hammond and Janet as well… and Walter – Walter’s tweets would be pretty fun to write!) I’d do so myself, but I’d rather read about them than write about them. Whatever, I guess.
But, out of all the fictional characters I follow, my favourite ‘group’ has to be Jeph’s Questionable Content characters. They talk to each other (and only each other) regularly, there’s no breaking of the fourth wall or out of character moments. (As a runner up, I’ve got to say that WriteRCastle is pretty awesome – for one, Nathan Fillion is following him and, for two, Alexis will also tweet from that account.)
For whatever reason (I don’t understand myself either), that got me thinking… what if a small group of people got together and each made a Twitter account for someone they just made up. You know, sort of like a RP but on Twitter? Travis and I sort of started doing something to that effect – we both made accounts for two of our characters and started tweeting from them. But then we got bored and moved on after less than 100 tweets. That is, less than 100 tweets between all four accounts.
So what I want to do is to try doing that again but with more people involved than just Trav and I (we’re evidently bad at motivating each other. Probably because we’re both too lazy to even bother prodding the other person) and with brand new characters. The only question is, how are we going to go about this? Are we going to set this in the real world and just have ordinary people tweeting at each other? Or is it going to be a different world altogether? Are we going to set it up so that it is just a bunch of people using Twitter as, well, Twitter or in a more traditional RP sense? (I say using Twitter as Twitter because, well, then what’s the point of using Twitter?)
Leave your thoughts in the comments and hopefully we’ll be able to get this thing up and running!
Unless, of course, the only person this amuses is myself. In which case you all suck and I’m going to go play in THAT corner of the sandbox now.
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