Introduction Thread

SheepishPatio · 2023-07-25T16:41:27+00:00

This is the introduction thread for SheepishPatio. The goal of this thread is to be a bit more structured than the prior one. Now that the site has been liv...

agoraoptera

Wow, that was awkward, I signed up for an account and then the rollback hit so I had to signup again.
Reposting~

How did you find this site?

Like many others, a basket weaving site

What do you spend most of your time doing, tell us about it! Do you have any specific goals or aspirations related to that activity?

I write and recently took up learning pole dancing. I hope to finish my novel by 2024.

If you had to summarise yourself in 1-2 short sentences, what would you say?

A simple creature. I don't have great aspirations, but I think I've got a decent head on my shoulders.

What's your ultimate guilty pleasure, whether it's a book, TV show, game/series, or website? Don't hold back!

Occult stuff. I don't believe in it, but I sure would like it to be. Tends to be awfully cringy though.

Murderbunny

agoraoptera

And I had replied to your original post and one part of it isn't there anymore so I can't use it anymore lol

Can you give a synopsis of your novel?

Lumeinshin

Murderbunny
agoraoptera
Apologies about the rollback, I made a daft mistake and could only roll it back. Thank you for rejoining agoraoptera
I'll evaluate my stuff and make plans to avoid stupid things like that again

agoraoptera

Murderbunny
Unfortunate, but alas! IT problems will always haunt us.
Basic premise is a fantasy world with North and South countries. Demons and Monsters plague the lands, which have been abandoned by the Gods. North is happy fun sunshine land because they have a few divine relics left behind that empowers Heroes, and Heroes are bullshit who break the laws of physics all over the place. South kingdom is misery suffering Mordor land because they don't have divine help. However, the South has a limited capacity to tame the evil beasties and use them in all fashions, eg ogres as pack mules, and is sort of allied with a couple of Archdemons, so the South is just barely holding its own against the North.
MC is the princess of the South. Shortly after the queen's passing, her father the Kyriarch declares her wanted for treason, and she's escaping with her soldiers and trying to figure out what's going on, because her dad's seemingly gone mad.

Lumeinshin
No worries! It was just an odd moment where I was questioning my sanity until I noticed the announcement haha. All good!

Porter

SheepishPatio

How did you find this site?

Saw your guys' ad on /v/ in one of the rare instances i was browsing without adblock.

What do you spend most of your time doing, tell us about it! Do you have any specific goals or aspirations related to that activity?

I spend too much time on Youtube and misc. doomscrolling tbh. That's a habit I'm trying to break.
When I'm not doing that I'm usually reading, playing videogames, or doing tabletop gaming stuff. For reading material I recently picked up Starship Troopers and C.S. Lewis' Cosmic trilogy. For vidya, I started playing Outer Wilds the other day and have been giving No Man's Sky a shot too. Tabletop wise I've got a Saturday and a Tuesday game right now in two different systems, Nechronica and Pathfinder 2e respectively. Tuesday game is with a bunch of longtime friends and the Saturday game is a group I'm mostly new to (I was invited by a mutual friend) but they've been fun. I also have an interest in firearms and go shooting now and then.

I used to write for fun. I keep trying to get back into it but I inevitably slip back into paging between different tabs and doing nothing at my desk. Have to break out of my scrollitis some more I guess. I've considered getting a typewriter.

I've also started collecting music records but I'm not sure how much that qualifies as a hobby.

If you had to summarise yourself in 1-2 short sentences, what would you say?

I'm a pretty generic videogame nerd whose slowly transitioning into luddite-lite.

What's your ultimate guilty pleasure, whether it's a book, TV show, game/series, or website? Don't hold back!

My Saturday game is set in the Fallout: Equestria fan universe so I'll give you a guess. I also used to be involved in fanfiction back in the day (for a couple fandoms). I'll still occasionally go digging to see if I find anything interesting. Sometimes I do.

Murderbunny

agoraoptera
That sounds pretty cool actually. Having the MC be from the nasty place was a good move I think because it opens up a bunch of interesting scenarios. Do you have plans for the publishing?

agoraoptera

Murderbunny
Thanks! Yeah, I thought it might be a nice perspective to play with.
No plans for publishing whatsoever. I think if I worried about that, I'd be too consumed by fears of making the story 'nice' and 'suitable' for mass appeal or commercial viability. Instead, I want to finish the novel for myself. If publication ever comes into play, then so be it. But I'm writing it firstly and foremost for myself. A personal accomplishment. And then I'll ~~force~~ ask some of my friends to read it.

What kinda games do you play btw?

Murderbunny

agoraoptera
I feel you, as a way to deal with my dyslexia I used to force myself to write short stories and ~~lewd~~ totally sfw fanfics for strictly personal use so I know all about writing for yourself

Whenever you do finish it or even if you have a rough draft or a chapter ready I volunteer myself to be part if your readership, your world sounds mega neat.

My favorite genres are big rpgs with worlds you can get lost into. Right now I'm replaying Dragon's Dogma for the most part. I'm still playing Oblivion and maybe I'll move on to Skyrim but I'm a slow player so who knows when thats gone be.
Other than that I play DBD and LoL a bunch.

agoraoptera

Murderbunny
Hahaha nice. I've never been able to write smut myself, for various reasons.

I'd be honoured to show you my writing, but I'm only about a third through the full story. Maybe I'll polish up a 'complete' section and post it here in the near future, if that's not too self-promotey.

I've never played Dragon's Dogma myself, though I heard good things about it. I was much more into big open world games when I was younger, but I think I lack the energy for it these days. Good times.

Murderbunny

agoraoptera
I never got around to even think of attempting an actual novel, I think the longest short story I wrote was about 15 pages long but I was quite proud of it. Not so much of the quality (it was quite crappy if I'm honest) but that I finished it at all. Is this you first try or do you have more work done too?

I really recommend Dragon's Dogma because it is one of my favorite games and I think an absolutely amazing story with plenty of cool characters and neat lines. Do you still play any games?

agoraoptera

Murderbunny
Aye, finishing something is a milestone worth remembering. I've written a lot of rubbish, but very few of it is finished. Usually end up writing myself into a corner somehow. But this time, this time for sure. I'm committed to finishing this one. I've been working on it for about 9 months now.

I see, I probably won't get around to it in the near-future, but I'll keep DD in mind. At present I'm on a gacha game (yes, gacha bad) called Punishing: Gray Raven. Also recently picked up Remnant 2, just beat the last boss a couple days back. But I'm limiting my overall gaming time, just because it eats into my writing time. Ain't enough hours in the day for the stuff I want to do. Work is a pain.

Murderbunny

agoraoptera

According too my creative writing teacher the best solution to a dead end is to bullshit your way out of it (or "to deus ex machina your way out" as she put it lol) and hope the reader won't notice or at least not get too bothered by the asspull because it's better to have an okay finished story than an unfinished masterwork. But then again that is easier said than done if you happen to be a perfectionist that has trouble accepting your work won't be as good as you think it should lol. Either way I'll be rooting for you to keep the motivation going till the end. If you feel like showing us any of the ones you did finish you could always make a thread for for it. Maybe we'll have more people show up and share too which would be neat.

Funny, I had Remnant 2 show up in my steam queue, it caught my eye because it had a pretty cool aesthetic. Same for limiting my time spent on gaming, I'm trying to focus on finishing a couple of books in my queue.

agoraoptera

Murderbunny
I fall more into the perfectionist category, I'd rather not finish a work than half-ass it haha. Though I'm not obsessively perfectionist, thank goodness. Thanks a lot for the support mate! I'll likely bump the Project thread or make a writing-specific thread once I'm ready, that seems like the appropriate thing to do.

Remnant 2 is pretty fun, it's basically Dark Souls with guns. I cleared the base game with mouse and keyboard, so no worries on that front. If you enjoy exploring and getting frustrated by puzzles and hidden secrets alongside the action combat, then Remnant 2 is a good pick.

WastedBucket

How did you find this site?

On the communities thread on SushiChan.

What do you spend most of your time doing, tell us about it! Do you have any specific goals or aspirations related to that activity?

If I'm not at work (part time at around 20-30 hours a week), I'm usually either wasting time on the internet doing... something. It's hard to explain since I genuinely have no idea how to explain all the time I spend on here, I'm sure some people here can understand that. I'm into the typical nerdy stuff like anime and reading, not so much gaming anymore. I'm also a beekeeper and I guess my goals/aspirations are directly linked to that. I hope to eventually build up my hive numbers to a level where I can make that my primary, if not sole source of income. I'll want to buy some land where I can build a shed house (in my mind it's basically just a shed with a granny flat kind of thing connected to it for me to live in), have the bulk of my hives and just live my days out there. Venturing out to sell honey and buy stuff I need before going back home to be on my own.

If you had to summarise yourself in 1-2 short sentences, what would you say?

I'm lazy and I don't really know how to talk about myself, so I'm just going to leave the post in it's entirety to answer that question.

What's your ultimate guilty pleasure, whether it's a book, TV show, game/series, or website? Don't hold back!

Food. A lifetime of unhealthy eating is slowly being fought back, I've effectively removed soft drink from my diet and all liquid calories comes from milk or protein powder.

I hope I get to know some of you better over time.

Murderbunny

WastedBucket
I was always fascinated by bee keeping. Do you plant the flowers for them yourself or let em go into the wild for the polen? I got into mead making a couple years ago and I really liked how honey from different flowers tasted wildly different as well and produced very distinct blends when fermented.

WastedBucket

Murderbunny
We just put hives on people's properties and let the hives go for it. The majority of our hives are out in the bush, so there's plenty of local trees, grasses and flowers for the bees. If I eventually get land then I'll be mostly just leaving it as natural as possible, outside of the small bit for my house yard.

Onyx

How did you find this site?

/vt/ ad, as many others.

What do you spend most of your time doing, tell us about it! Do you have any specific goals or aspirations related to that activity?

I love learning. My career is on science so I spend most of my free time learning about history, humanities, politics, and sociology. I also draw and watch vtubers, and enjoy playing old games (right now finishing Baldur's Gate 1 for the first time).

If you had to summarise yourself in 1-2 short sentences, what would you say?

A curious mind that loves taking care of others. I love physical exercise and cute stuff.

What's your ultimate guilty pleasure, whether it's a book, TV show, game/series, or website? Don't hold back!

Boomer shooters. The build engine has something special that makes it extra satisfying to kill enemies in there. I have played Doom (1982) more times than I can count and I always try to grab and play the latest release that follows in its footsteps.

Psittacus

How did you find this

I found it after the partnership with Wapchan.

What do you spend most of your time doing, tell us about it! Do you have any specific goals or aspirations related to that activity?

In terms of what I do at this particular moment? Well, it's usually playing retro video games (currently going through Mischief Makers on the N64) or listening to music (at the moment, mostly metal). But generally, my interests include: retro video games, anime, music (both in composition and listening, I especially have a taste for heavy metal and progressive rock, but I enjoy video game music and other sorts of electronic music as well), linguistics and history (something I aspire to do as a career God willing).

If you had to summarise yourself in 1-2 short sentences, what would you say?

I'd say that I'm a generally chill individual. I'm an Arab, Muslim, and relatively religious. I don't know what else to put here.

What's your ultimate guilty pleasure, whether it's a book, TV show, game/series, or website? Don't hold back!

Peppy melodic electronic music. All the way from Eurodance to happy hardcore music. God, that stuff gets me going and it is slightly embarrassing LOL.

P.S. reading the thread and seeing fellow retro gamers is making me quite excited LOL

Murderbunny

Psittacus

Mischief makers

Boy that was one of my favorite games ever. There was so much variety in the stages from platforming to math quizzes. I can still hear the "shake-shake, shake-shake" line in my head just thinking about it.

Zergface

SheepishPatio
How did you find this site?
I'm another Wapchan user, and I found that site through 4chan /a/ a little over a year prior.
What do you spend most of your time doing, tell us about it! Do you have any specific goals or aspirations related to that activity?
Lately either playing vidya or watching anime. I do also like to draw when I'm in the right mood (both digital art and traditional paper/pencil).
If you had to summarise yourself in 1-2 short sentences, what would you say?
Uhhh... an early 30s ojisan who spends too much time on imageboards!
What's your ultimate guilty pleasure, whether it's a book, TV show, game/series, or website? Don't hold back!
Anime: I love "girls with guns" action series from the 80s/90s/2000s
Games: I've been playing Sven Co-op quite a bit lately, it's Half-Life 1 but co-op and with anime playermodels hitting you with a crowbar while yelling "TAKE COVER!"

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