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...b10010b...
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written Saturday, July 16 2005 19:31
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The obvious way to do second-person perspective is having the camera pointed directly at the player character's face at all times. It won't work very well in terms of gameplay, but that's beside the point. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Guardian
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written Saturday, July 16 2005 19:32
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Actually that works quite well in hentai. And hair styling. -------------------- The critics agree! Demonslayer is "a five star hit!" raves TIMES Weekly! "I've never heard such thoughtful comments. This man is a genious!" says two-time Nobel Prize winning physicist Erwin Rasputin! Posts: 1582 | Registered: Wednesday, November 13 2002 08:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Saturday, July 16 2005 19:39
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Every internet thread must mention hentai at some point. This is a law. -------------------- I want...to kill...myself I want...to hang...myself I want...her to see...me die And to know...that she...has killed me. Posts: 28 | Registered: Saturday, July 9 2005 07:00 |
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Too Sexy for my Title
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written Saturday, July 16 2005 20:44
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Actually, over 90% of SW's threads do not mention Hentai whatsoever. Posts: 1035 | Registered: Friday, April 1 2005 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Saturday, July 16 2005 20:47
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I am interested in how much is mentioned by TM. Possibly a large percent. -------------------- I'll put a Spring in your step. Polaris Posts: 2396 | Registered: Saturday, January 29 2005 08:00 |
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Too Sexy for my Title
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written Saturday, July 16 2005 21:11
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quote:Indeed Posts: 1035 | Registered: Friday, April 1 2005 08:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 03:36
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Also Arctic. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy desperance.net - We're Everywhere ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 05:08
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quote:Perhaps we need to remedy this. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 06:17
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quote:Would that not be third-person? -------------------- Inconsistently backward. SWOH. IM, PATF, ND. Posts: 612 | Registered: Saturday, October 13 2001 07:00 |
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This Side Towards Enemy
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 08:10
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quote:Would it be an acceptable substitute to put 90% of the internet's hentai in one thread? Secretly, Alorael loves having to lock RWG topics. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 08:20
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First person is from the character's perspective. Third person is from outside the character looking in on the character and its surroundings. Second person, therefore, would be from the player's perspective. -------------------- The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) Famous Last Words - A local pop-punk band They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 09:26
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I don't think that's correct... -------------------- The critics agree! Demonslayer is "a five star hit!" raves TIMES Weekly! "I've never heard such thoughtful comments. This man is a genious!" says two-time Nobel Prize winning physicist Erwin Rasputin! Posts: 1582 | Registered: Wednesday, November 13 2002 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 10:10
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First person perspective uses things like "I do this" and "we did that". It is from the character's perspective. Third person perspective does not use "I" or "we" in narrative text. It uses "he", "she", "it," etc. They are describing event as viewed by an outsider. The narrator may or may not be omniscient; it is irrelevant to its perspective. Second person is "you did this" or "you do that". (Note that "your character did this" is not second, but third person.) It is from your perspective. -------------------- The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) Famous Last Words - A local pop-punk band They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 10:10
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Second person might be if the player controlled one character, but the view was that of whomever or whatever the character was interacting with. Could be a cool game, if it weren't impossible to control, and disorienting with jumping around all the time. I know of a novel written in the second person. The protagonist is 'you'. It begins with you just having bought the book, and starting to read it, etc. Then it gets a bit weird. But you've got to love it for the title if nothing else: If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, by Italo Calvino (original in Italian, of course). -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 10:14
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I was...uh...exxageratting about the hentai bit. prznoh8 -------------------- I want...to kill...myself I want...to hang...myself I want...her to see...me die And to know...that she...has killed me. Posts: 28 | Registered: Saturday, July 9 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 10:32
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quote:No, but I do love nested quotes. —Alorael, who doesn't think pointing the camera at a face is second person either. It's still awkward third person. There has to be a distinct difference with no overlap. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Mongolian Barbeque
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 11:28
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quote:That's very interesting, and made me suddenly remember a Gene Wolfe story I once read written from the same perspective with the same use of "you." It was entitled "The Doctor of Death Island"... or was it "The Island of Doctor Death"? Some combination of those words. I think he wrote a story using each permutation of these words as a title. Very confusing! Anyway, the only thing I remember about the story is how it was written. Everything else about it has flown out of my tiny little mind, except that I think I read it in one of those Nebula Awards anthologies. It was nominated, but didn't win. [ Sunday, July 17, 2005 11:29: Message edited by: Icshi ] -------------------- The A.E. van Vogt Information Site My Tribute to the Greatest Writer of the Science Fiction Golden Age Posts: 907 | Registered: Monday, July 15 2002 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 13:40
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Those Choose-Your-Own-Adventures are second person. It's you making decisions. A mix between third- and first-person. -------------------- The critics agree! Demonslayer is "a five star hit!" raves TIMES Weekly! "I've never heard such thoughtful comments. This man is a genious!" says two-time Nobel Prize winning physicist Erwin Rasputin! Posts: 1582 | Registered: Wednesday, November 13 2002 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 13:46
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Not necessarily. It is only second person if you are the narrator and a character in the story. It's got nothing to do with who's making the decisions. -------------------- The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) Famous Last Words - A local pop-punk band They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 15:11
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No no no, I know that. I was just explaining the books. And "you are the narrator and a character in the story" sounds remarkably similar to first-person... I want a Wiki definition, damnit! -------------------- The critics agree! Demonslayer is "a five star hit!" raves TIMES Weekly! "I've never heard such thoughtful comments. This man is a genious!" says two-time Nobel Prize winning physicist Erwin Rasputin! Posts: 1582 | Registered: Wednesday, November 13 2002 08:00 |
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...b10010b...
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 15:32
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quote:Another one: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, by Tom Robbins. It doesn't really do as many fancy party tricks with the second-person narration, but it's still there. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Sunday, July 17 2005 16:31
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quote:Are you sure it wasn't called "Doom Demon Echoes IV: The Lost Island of the Valley of the Big Quest for the Lair of the Undead Goblins and the Revenge of the Dragon-Killing Moon-Sword"? Also, the Lone Wolf books are written in second-person. Anyone read those? They were my introduction to fantasy when I was about six. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Monday, July 18 2005 03:11
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I wrote a very popular book called Of Good Apologies And Evil Redemption plus the Lamentations of Theseus Falling in Algiers, with Kaleb's Kalloskagathos Superpower Search for Kayolith Tomorrow -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy desperance.net - We're Everywhere ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, July 18 2005 03:55
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It was very popular among cover layout artists' ex-spouses. But now I have the startling insight that pen-and-paper RPGs are all second-person. Cool. [ Monday, July 18, 2005 03:58: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Monday, July 18 2005 07:26
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Anyway... BoG. It'll happen, even if it's to help feed baby Vogel. And her parents too, I'd imagine. And even if GF4 isn't gonna be like 1,2 and 3, BoG might. For all we know, "breaking out of the mould" might mean making it top-down. Now that would be classy... -------------------- "I am a living sign..." Thus endeth this post. Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00 |