Matuchkin

There are still many centenarians around who can easily walk, talk, whatever as if they are 70. Admittedly, seeing your family pass away has to be depressing, but there has to be a sense of accomplishment after such a long life which trumps any of that depression. After all, you're used to death by then. "How old are you?" "1-" "What?" "-times ten to the power of..."

Sorry, it's just that my choices are based on various other factors as well, just general opinion, reputation amongst writers, etc. Again, I apologise.

YES! Uhh,... uhhh... @sal_vager?

So you want in? Because looking at your content, you are totally qualified. Anyone else wanna propose before Lachland takes over?

You should do one of the pre-launch alarms: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *dramatic tension* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *silence*

Yeah, I have. Any notable works you did on these forums?

A random realisation that I had right now - I will be alive at a time when I could say the following: a) "100 years ago, we landed men on the Moon" b) "100 years ago, Metallica released Kill Em All and became a thrash hit" c) "A century ago, Dream theater released Images and Words and Rage Against the Machine became popular" d) "A century ago, the space shuttle program came to fruition. I witnessed it end, and remember that moment clearly." c) "The F-15 Eagle is a very old plane, which is more than 100 years old and uses the primitive technology of that era." d) "These century-old rock/metal bands that I mentioned earlier? I've seen them live in person!!!" Wow. I will live to see the future.

@kerbiloid yet Chekhov's Gun is more of a statement that you should never put irrelevant objects into a narrative. I.e. you can't make a false promises.

Oh, let's keep that business in our private conversation. Please don't post that here.

Chekhov was a genius, wasn't he? I honestly love Russian literature.

Not really okay. It's my first language, and I knew how to speak Russian before the age of 1. I should know it easily by now.

1. King Duncan, the "good" king, rules over scotland. 2. Duncan promotes Macbeth. 3. Macbeth's wife convinces Macbeth to kill Duncan and become king. 4. Macduff and co. scatter and flee. 5. Macbeth kills Macduff's family, et al. 6. The witches show us some cliche bad omens. 7. Macbeth's castle is sieged, his wife commits suicide, and he's killed.

Well, true. But I live in Canada, so while I instinctively talk in Russian, I am far worse at orthography.

THANKYOUUUUUUUUU*faint sonic boom*

What I think people fail to realise is the simplicity of Shakespearean plays. If you translate them perfectly into modern-day formal English (quite simple, considering that Elizabethan English is essentially a slightly altered version of modern English, with a few more phrases/sayings that aren't used anymore), most of his plays would seem to be the equivalent of today's films (i.e. The Taming of the Shrew would probably have the same humorous and literary qualities as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, while Romeo and Juliet will have so many cliches that it will be be criticised more than any other literary work [a lot of modern romance tales have elements from that play]). Shakespeare's plays outline simple, linear plots with single themes, and every emotion, thought, etc of the characters is stated very explicitly, as is every theme. Personally, I believe that it is less important to learn Shakespeare than, say - Tolstoy (he's especially important), Remarque, maybe Dante, Pushkin, and the like. I haven't read through Chekhov (I did watch Uncle Vanya once) or Dostoevsky yet, but I really should. Surprise Surpresa Surprise сюрприз (soorPRIs) sürpriz ÜBERRASCHUNG

Here's the thing. In most of his plays, the average dialogue is performed as normal dialogue: some sections aren't even written in IP. Other plays, such as his Henriads (which kick butt compared to his other more famous ones, in my opinion), are written in a way that only the nobility/main characters speak poetically. Quite interesting, but you certainly can't read/script every Shakespeare play with IP in mind. Well that's a sonnet. It's deliberately meant to be a poem which rhythm in mind.

As for my own complaint? i HATE it WHEN peoPLE read SHAKE, speare IN iAMbic PENtaME, ter NOT reAliSING that IT'S, suppOSED to BE read NORmaLLY.

Not really, it kind of has the same laws (tenses, genders, etc) that many other languages have, and it even gives you near-total liberty with word positioning: Маша очень лубит печенье. Masha really likes cookies. Печенье очень лубит Маша. Cookies really likes Masha. Лубит очень Маша печенье. Likes very Masha cookies. Oчень лубит Маша печенье. Very likes Masha cookies. Oчень печенье лубит Маша. Very cookies likes Masha. Only one of the sentences written above makes sense in English. However, every single one of these sentences make complete sense in Russian, and can be used in conversation.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zdVr1383425WMTnQ8X-5iP9yNxtq5KKi59lSEFBoz50/edit\ The above link leads to a demo campaign, which will be the first thing we release. The first 3/4 of the document consists of stats and rules for my team to work with, so that section has nothing to do with writing. The section of interests for the writing community is the very last one, in which the campaign is roughly outlined. This same comment will be posted in the OP.

You're right... It does need a better title...

Thanks but like... anyone... volunteers... no?

First of all: yes, there are obviously writers around here, that's why I am creating this thread in Mission Reports and not the Lounge. (Hint, hint, moderators, please don't move this thread). As not very many of you know, I and a team of guys are trying to create bda "campaigns" for KSP: i.e. a series of KSP scenarios outlining the story of a single pilot during a military conflict. Naturally, we would need a writer to join our group, in order to express the storyline for such scenarios. Here's an example, expressed in two possible styles because why not: - Documentary: i.e. "In October 12, 1983, a U.S. SR-71 Blackbird was shot down by a missile as it was patrolling over Novaya Zemlya. The coordinates of the launch were reported, and the following morning two F-18 Hornets took off from the U.S.S. Carl Vinson, armed with six AGM-65D Maverick laser-guided missiles. - Story (the preferred option): i,e, "We never got the full story; all we were given were coordinates and a mission, as usual. When the first rumours of the impossible reached us, we knew the day was going to be longer than we originally anticipated..." So are there any willing volunteers? If you are willing to join us we will join you to our PM discussion and hand you the details of the first campaign of our project. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zdVr1383425WMTnQ8X-5iP9yNxtq5KKi59lSEFBoz50/edit\ The above link leads to a demo campaign, which will be the first thing we release. The first 3/4 of the document consists of stats and rules for my team to work with, so that section has nothing to do with writing. The section of interests for the writing community is the very last one, in which the campaign is roughly outlined.

Sadly, that photograph is possibly the luckiest I have, and no other such photograph is under my possession, so I don't really have any stacking material. I tried to play around in photo editors to get the GRS and cloud bands to stand out, but I couldn't achieve much. Truth be told, this is my most prised photo as of yet, and I am distributing it where possible (facebook, this forum thread, etc) so that I can have as much backup of it as possible.

Jupiter as I saw it on the 9-10 of June. Taken with super-duper space-grade flabbergastingly amazing LG-G3 phone camera, held to the eyepiece with microscopic precision by the iron grip of my fist. Take that, NASA!

@TheMadKraken2297 *Menacing Laughter*