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Well, a lot of you saw the controversy about the insults from the person who is now the GCW Correspondent, and between his comments and the swarm of players & buffbots who rose in his support, my first inclination was to finally hit the cancel button. My second inclination was to hit the cancel button, as was my third. By then I'd cooled off enough that all I could think about was hitting the cancel button. Then, I finally remembered that what the GCW Correspondent thinks really doesn't matter. What SOE thinks really doesn't matter either. In fact, the only opinion of me and my playstyle that should have the ultimate bearing on how I feel is the opinion I hold of myself.

At long last, I decided to come up with a list of the top 101 reasons I love being an Entertainer. So, without any further stalling, here it is:

101 Reasons to remain in the Entertainment professions and playing LIVE!

101. Love of Star Wars
100. Love of Roleplaying
99. People are great (generally )
98. Variety in clothing (for the women at least )
97. Fame!
96. Companionship
95. Poplock
94. Hope of future improvement
93. Promises of future improvement
92. Homophobes (may as well try to work out societal quirks in-game)
91. Oola the Master Dancer
90. Entertainer droid effects
89. Variety of dance moves
88. Player Theaters (yeah, they’re broken, but the concept is good...)
87. HAWTpants
86. Character trait variety
85. Low-level “cute” pets
84. /setperform
83. /denyservice
82. Multiple players on a single Nalargon
81. Pappi’s falls.
80. Promise of Hutt Casino
79. non-Entertainer Community support
78. Customer Interaction
77. Jokes (like “sure we’ll fix the Entertainment professions”)
76. Jokes (like “two Zabraks walk into a cantina...”)
75. Tips!
74. Picking out costumes and having an excuse to shop!
73. Attention
72. Newbies
71. Just hanging out with friends
70. Meeting new people
69.
68. Holo emotes
67. Helping people
66. Healing people
65. Being a vast repository of information on the mechanics of every other profession
64. /hug
63. /kiss
62. Active creativity
61. No spamming specials! (unless you’re talking about...well that’s not appropriate for this forum. )
60. Spices
59. Big LIVE Entertainment groups
58. Cantina atmosphere
57. Death and cloning are rare for Entertainers in a cantina environment
56. Exotic 1 (heheh I have to play drunk somehow! & the other broken dances just look too horrible)
55. I can create a disco ball out of thin air!!!
54. Every night I meet new people
53. I’m constantly surrounded by sexy people
52. I’m usually only a few steps from a bartender
51. People love me for who I am, not what I am
50. My “weapon” never wears out
49. No armor
48. When I fall down drunk, someone almost always takes me home
47. Competent Correspondents
46. The sensuality of the movements
45. I’m graceful! (a trait I don’t share in RL )
44. I’m dramatic
43. Have I mentioned the love?
42. The hate (if I wasn’t hated, I’d have to wonder if I was just pandering too much)
41. Western
40. Mandoviol
39. I look good Entertaining
38. No lack of AP
37. Contacts in every other profession
36. Accaragm
35. It’s a hellalottafun
34. The parties!
33. The stalkers.
32. 1-star bandits
31. 5-star bandits
30. I can Entertain any time, anywhere
29. It’s an open-ended creative outlet
28. I get to make fun of AFK buffbots
27. It’s funny to watch the PvP’s compare “templates”...
26. Gossip, gossip, gossip
25. Catfights!
24. Live Entertainers are a fun, happy, and friendly group of people
23. Thank GOD for tailors
22. /lick
21. Exotic 2
20. Exotic 3
19. Poplock 2
18. Exotic 4
17. The love of lekku (ok, so I love horns, hair, and the lack of any of these as well...but the Twi’s would have been disappointed if I hadn’t said anything )
16. Sad memories
15. Happy memories
14. Nalargons
13. RL Friends
12. Entertaining is something I can do for myself & for the love of Entertaining
11. I look dead sexy doing it
10. Cantina Crawls
9. Great Correspondents
8. Amazing community
7. MMORPG Addiction
6. It fits my personality
5. HAWT bodies in HAWTpants
4. Promises, promises, promises of future content
3. Meeting people across the world
2. The Entertainer Memorial
1. Lilo’s friends. You’re the best, guys & gals!

Note: you may notice a similarity, or in some cases, a downright ripoff of something you or someone else said about loving the Entertainment professions. It just so happens I agree with you on that point...and I had to do a LOT of scrounging to come up with 101 things to keep me in the game.

Congratz, yougot a sticky for a week.

very nice post, Lilo

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Good grief... Why is it every time we get a tidbit of good news (SOETyrant's post), it gets followed by something simply outrageous?

I'm sorry to hijack your thread. You made some excellent points, andI'd like to add number .5 : Met my soulmate while performing.

I was in the cantina one day, just performing as usual, when along comes this saucy Twi female who started flirting. Of course, I fell back on 'First Rule of the Internet: All females are male until proven otherwise'. It didn't take long for her to get on cam and on phone and have a RL discussion. Lots of flirting, fighting, arguments, makeups, both ingame and RL followed. Then a visit and a move cross several states. (enter happy ever after ending here).

So, without performing as an Entertainer, I never would have met her. And she wouldn't be saying 'awww, how sweet' as she reads this over my shoulder .

On a more grim note, it's a sad state of affairs when a known harrasser with extremely poor social skills and language can become a Correspondant, regardless of how proficient he is (Bootstrap andhis guild are among the best (or worst, depending on your point of view) PVPers on Tempest) at that profession/area of gameplay. I've had run-ins with Bootstrap. Besides his derogatory posts, there are reasons he's on a number of permanent denial lists.

Does SOE even bother to do any kind of a background check on who becomes a Corr other than the posts here by their friends? For example: In San Diego, the Police Dept. not only contacts an applicant's friends and family to find out what kind of a person he/she is, but also that applicant's neighbors and co-workers. You can have all your friends champion your merits all you like. But when the PD gets a survey back from your landlord about your god complex and 'rules don't apply to me' attitude, they seriously reconsider having a person like that join the Force. Granted, a follow up interview is always a must, just to insure you didn't get the one person that you happened to piss off, but even that one voice is heard and merits a closer look at the applicant.

Perhaps, when choosing new Correspondants, it might be a good idea to solicit input from the people each applicant spends time with. IE: the people of his/her server. I suggest a server wide email. If you have no input, simply delete the email. If you have something to say for or against the applicant, then every voice should be heard, not counted.

Mo'Ste Elosk
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the Wisdom to discover the Right,
the Will to choose it,
and the Strength to make it endure.

n'Jessi
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