Any Hunter x Hunter Fans?

Curses, I hate intro threads. 

Whelp, I'm here, I'm queer (no, really), and I'm a leader from another RP'ing community over yonder.

I've been PbP role playing for nearly... God, how long has it been, now? Ten years? Is that it? Fuck, I'm getting up there, aren't I?!

Since I'm a control freak, you'll mostly find me GM'ing stories rather than joining them. Don't take offense to that or anything, it's just how I've always RP'd. I get an idea and I want to share it, and rarely do I venture into someone else's imagination (I guess I'm shy). The stories I write and (maybe) join all have a modern air to them, even the fantasies. Science fiction is definitely a favorite of mine, especially those that draw from Owellian concept.

Some authors that have inspired my writing are: Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald (anyone seen the new Gatsby movie?), C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ayn Rand, George Orwell, and a few others. So yeah, I'm a sucker for the classics and intellectuals (which my own ego would count myself a member of).

Other than reading the classics, however, I get an equal amount of muse from listening to underground music falling in the new age and glitch genres. Dubstep? Not really a fan of the grungy/industrial feel, but drum step and glitch hop is a different story. Mainstream, overplayed crap on the radio, however, has nearly become poison to my ears. I often find myself tuning the station over to some classic rock. The Eagles, I believe, blow Chris Brown out of the water. And their gold isn't something that Lil' Wayne can taint with his "remix, babe"'s.

So that's me. I'll take any questions from here on up to the point that I finish devouring this chocolate chip cookie.

(Oh, I forgot to mention that I'm into anime, as well. I know, kinda off the rocker from the stuff above, but Hunter x Hunter is just freaking awesome in my book.)

 

Aha! I see my subtle but swift kick in the pants has worked! *coughs* Just kidding. Thanks for the welcomes, guys.

 

I DJ every now and then at events on my base. I was actually requested for our annual Air Force Ball, which I was totally humbled by. Thus, I have an astute appreciation for all genres of music (well... country on the other hand... that's uh... yeah, let's not talk about country  ).

My depreciated respect for anything that can be called "mainstream" is due to the fact that radio hosts overplay new songs and artists as soon as they go to album. Macklemore, for instance, had become a quickly beaten horse within the first two weeks they began to air his most popular tracks from The Heist. Although the brave tenacity they've recently shown in playing Same Love on the radio waves has been a refreshing shot in the arm.

That last point brings me to why I appreciate music so much: it's a liberal art; which, let's face it, isn't too far from the definition of what many of us think of when we hear the term liberal by itself - be that definition political or not. There's no denying it, music is a way for those talented in either making it or listening to it to feel inspired, enlightened, enchanted, amused, or set free.

I can't go five minutes without my ears needing to hear something that I can tap my foot to or bob my head along with. I used to fall asleep with the radio on as a kid. Now, since the radio stations all play the same stuff over and over, just with even more and annoying commercials where they repeat a god damn ten digit telephone number six times in one breath, I just imagine or recall a song in my head as I'm drifting off.

Whether it be the trumpets of Taps playing over my base's loudspeaker at night (as is playing right now while I type these very words, actually) or the beats and synthetic rhythms of a lounge or night club, I find music in all its forms to be an awe-inspiring element of life itself. ...Except for country. xD

And yes, Rose, I happened across Caravan Palace a couple of months ago on YouTube. They're kinda catchy. I like their classic blends.

 

Hmm... If I knew the first thing about MyBB or your plugin, I'd be happy to lend hand; mais non, I'm only versed in the basics (CSS, HTML, and a little Javascript). I tinker here and there with the sites I do manage, but I ultimately rely on their own support. Sai Rhavan and I tried to do vBulletin in the past but... I became so fed up with their ACP that I flat out told him he wasted $300 on the worst piece of *&^% software I have ever seen.

As far as my own music collection goes: I guess one might say it's endless. I'm a fan of le cloud, and since I'd gladly wear a Google t-shirt to work under my uniform every day, it goes without saying that I'm in love with their Play Music stuff. I pick a song, start it's radio, and add track after track to a library I can tap into from all of my devices for like 8 bucks a month. It blows Pandora out of the freakin' water.

 

We use Zetaboards at RPH. It makes life simple when your provider hosts most of your stuff. Great up-time on all of their servers and unbelievable flexibility for being a costless software. Their are no "plug-ins" for it, so anything unique that you want has to be created and coded in, but it gives you even more control and customization.