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Subj: I'm not going in there to find out.
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 at 03:32:28 pm EST (Viewed 1 times)
Reply Subj: Isn't that what the stickers are made out of?
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 at 01:11:32 pm EST (Viewed 613 times)



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      I also apparently have to go to six weekly half-day courses on How To Have Diabetes Properly.



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    Why? You can learn about that from 30 minutes of reading.


Evidently you are not allowed to have the illness here until you pass an exam.


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      It can be simpler to torture your own creations. I know I do.



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    Only because nobody complains.


But also because one can plan long-term arcs and follow up on consequences much easier.


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      I've never used Facebook or other social media like it so I wouldn't know. Publishers keep telling me I have to join Faceboot and Twitter to promote my books and "develop an author platform" and so far I have resisted the call.



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    I believe you can set it up to be a static advertising platform and turn off things like comments and the wall etc., so it's not "active".


I'm not keen. And the whole "followers" thing and the "likes and dislikes" thing seem competetive, cliquey, and very much like the worst parts of school.


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    That's where the real time sink is, when you have to prune and update it daily. Basically Facebook made their personal pages like those little digital pets people had in the 90's where they had to constantly feed and care for them or they'd die, combined with rewarding narcissism and people's need to be somewhat famous. It's a strategy that works.


You're really not selling Facebook to me.


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      Yours is the only message board I've ever used that has a competent edit function, actually. Certainly Comicboards (back in the day when I used it, c 1999-2005) and Sigma.net didn't have such things.



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    It was in my original specs, because UBB (the long page format one) had an edit feature. I was trying to cover as much territory as possible. The reason this software is still so isolated in use is because the back-end and install stuff is unfriendly, and...because I could never make money off of it, since its competition is all free.


Shame.


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      That might ultimately be a poor business choice for them. Short-term gain over long-term integration.



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    Seems to be working for them so far, because they've convinced most of their users to give them exclusive content. That's why now everyone know someone who tells them "I'm only posting it to Facebook, you have to go there to see it".


Except I don't, so if they want me to see it they had better send me a copy.


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      Does that sort of thing happen at Comicon?



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    Yes. It happens to my friend in Canada. And she's an artist with her own table.


Oh dear!


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      I think they probably don't concentrate on Faite because she gently steers their attention elsewhere, maybe even without consciously doing it.She's all about the little present changes, after all. "Yeah, that Faite kid... ooh, puppies!" It's a bit like how people improbably don't connect how much Dancer looks like Sarah Shepherdson.



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    Faite also chose very carefully. Not the slightly weird part, but that she's a non-dangerous looking, barely 100 lbs teenage girl. She uses people's disbelief that someone who looks like her couldn't possibly be dangerous at all. And she barely speaks, which makes her look to be too passive do have the stomach to do anything too drastic.



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    Which means that quite literally could be its own distraction. Imagine if Faite would do something simple like take Donar's freshly made milk shake and drink it dry, and then sit *right there*. Donar would turn around and blame Visionary, who really was just there to get a cup of ice, honest, and refuse to believe Visionary's insistence that the small teenage girl did it. Faite would end up having to clear it up herself to stop Visionary getting a serious beating.



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    You can probably guess that strategy works well with larger events, too. There are probably a lot of changes Faite made where villains fight each other over who did it, and none of them consider that it as her even as they beat each other to a pulp.


Noted.






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