Dancer Archive

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kirah_ashlin wrote:

I watched the vid a couple more times last night after I logged. I found it especially poinient that the wallpaper on my screen that the video was playing on top ofis one I made from a cover collage I got off of one of my SW items. Luke, Leia, Han, Ben . . . all of them staring at me with such determination and intensity.

As long as the will tonot give upburns brightly there is always a new hope . . .

Here's the wallpaper in case anyone was curious, btw - http://www.soulofthejedi.net/museum/album82/kll_wp3068

Nope, not even going to try to sticky it! /chuckle

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Here's Kirah's Sticky.... er, clicky.

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true_Kieran wrote:
I think I will make a character on Bria too, won't have much time to play a third character, but at least can be there at the one of the next Crawls.

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Bria, the Castro Street of live entertainment...

I had a different reaction from everybody else. VIII made me cry. This one just makes me mad.

But IX still has the most BMC hawtness!


J.

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SerenUK2 wrote:

Dancers are seen (by some) as strippers and hookers, musicians are seen as an interesting joke.

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Linkin Park 'In the End'

Incredible and superb.

/salute.

Javier,

I too felt strong emotions at seeing this video. I'm a bit of a "casual gamer," and I've never even posted on the official forums before. But on seeing this, I finally feel the need to comment.

I'm a musician. I am ONLY a musician. Oh, I have a couple of boxes of carbine shaded in, just to keep from getting beaten senseless by every thug I come across, but I don't really care about combat. It's never appealed to me, as is, in SWG.

I have merchant abilities, because selling nalargons for 3-5K a pop to people who are decorating their homes is what pays my rent, by and large.

What I, personally, like about Galaxies, and what keeps me coming back time after time (and paying that monthly fee) is entertaining others. Yep, entertaining even as is. Which is saying a lot.

What do I do when I log on? Strap on an instrument, find a place to stand, and wait for people to show up. Then I push some buttons here and there, to keep the flourishes interesting, but mostly I am chatting, and making music. I throw out a few lightshow tidbits, to enhance the atmosphere, and decide whom to /setperform on next.

I DON'T ask for money. I DON'T ask for heals, unless I am trying to finish a buff for a nice person and I'm running out of energy. I DON'T macro-advertise. I DON'T go AFK, except for normal bio reasons. And I DON'T hang out in Coronet or Theed, because I don't like being invisible and surrounded by zombies, who yell.

To be honest, there isn't all that much for me to do, except chat with people, to make this all feel more like a story. Because that is what makes the game fun, for me anyway. Stories. NOT fighting. NOT killing other players. And NOT making money.

Levelling up is fun, but I have not done that in so long, I've forgotten what it's like. I am not going for Jedi, so I am not grinding through professions one after the other. Ergo, no macro-grinding, and no AFK.

I only want to be a musician, and I've been at the top of my profession for almost as long as I've been playing. So why do I still play? Because I find great novelty in a completely non-combat profession? Because I love music in RL so much? Because I am just plain addicted to real-time chatrooms, with graphics? Because I loved that cantina scene in the original Star Wars so much I never got over it? The truth lies in all of these.

I will continue to pay my monthly fee and I will continue to log on until. . . who knows when?

But not everyone will. The Guild I joined in beta, Fatal X'Ceptions, was started as an entertainer guild. Used to be, we could fill out a band on every instrument, every night, without even trying. Seriously. I thought that was normal, for ages.

Nowadays (as in 2004, any month of 2004), I only see a full band on Cantina Crawls. And I may well be damned near the only Master Musician left in FX (if I'm wrong about that, I will endlessly apologize to whomever I've slighted). The game used to be so much more colorful and lively in the cantinas. But I guess others got bored. And I can't blame them at all.

What kind of effort would it take to liven up the entertainer profession? How many developers and programmers would have to concentrate on the issue fully for how long? How many man hours would have to be allocated to the pursuit? I don't know.

But how much more fun could it be for people like me, who don't like risking death for thrills? How much more interesting could it be for OTHER players, if some epic-level items, abilities, or buffs were cast our way? What if our instruments could be experimented up for extra-effectiveness? And how much MORE like a Star Wars movie would it be if you almost always met interesting, colorful people in cantinas when you went in hurting? Wouldn't that make the world better for everyone?

/soapbox off

Hats off to Javier for another great video, one that finally got the quiet kid to speak up. You are on the right track here. I think things will get better, honestly. But how soon? And how many people like us are gonna still be sitting in their seats in the big opera house before the tune comes more in focus? I dunno.