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addicted to caffeine

Black Swan wrote: »

Hey ATC, how's the writing going for our 1st favourite author?

tis hard but going well , finding the time where I can, real life is a bit crazy at the moment. how's writing going for you?

Black Swan

addicted to caffeine wrote: »

tis hard but going well , finding the time where I can, real life is a bit crazy at the moment. how's writing going for you?

Sorry, I was babbling in another forum. Writing pages has been going well, but I am not sure of the quality of contents. Once again, your page count ATC is quite impressive! Good show!

addicted to caffeine

Black Swan wrote: »

Sorry, I was babbling in another forum. Writing pages has been going well, but I am not sure of the quality of contents. Once again, your page count ATC is quite impressive! Good show!

no worries there:) Well done, keep up the good work! :cool:

thanks!:D

Black Swan

Not sure if I shared this with you ATC, but awhile back I looked that the 10 top NY Times best sellers in fiction, and discovered that the average word length was about 100,000 words. Although your work is non-fiction, I would guess that the word length would be similar, meaning that you are really getting close with 70K!

addicted to caffeine

Black Swan wrote: »

Not sure if I shared this with you ATC, but awhile back I looked that the 10 top NY Times best sellers in fiction, and discovered that the average word length was about 100,000 words. Although your work is non-fiction, I would guess that the word length would be similar, meaning that you are really getting close with 70K!

yep, another 30 to 40k to go

Gremlinertia

Morning all *holds out mug hopefully*

Angron

I dream of the day we can get half-way decent internet where I live. I'm so sick of 1gb downloads taking 5 hours or more, or having to watch twitch streams on mobile quality, and still getting buffering.

Gremlinertia

My head fries at the thought man. My retirement to the sticks is hinged on decent connectivity

Angron

It aggravates me more that they pissed away millions rebranding, instead of improving their damned service. And they effectively have a monopoly on things, so sod all can be done.

Gremlinertia

Don't even want to think about that monopoly stuff at all. When i go home you may aswell have bean tins and string to communicate with..

Links234

Hey folks, how goes everyone's weekend?

Gremlinertia

How doodle Links, any craic?

Links234

Ah not a whole lot, taking it as easy as easy can go. Playing some games.

Started watching a new anime series called Ajin, which is up on Netflix, and good anime on netflix is such a rarity it's great to see something like this. Bloody fantastic, been looking forward to seeing it because I attempted to read the manga (in Japanese) but didn't get very far at all.

Gremlinertia

I imagine it is rare enough, i don't think a lot of people in the west 'get' it for want of a better way to put it.. My language skills are pretty crap so i can't imagine tackling Japanese at all!

Angron

Weeb :pac: Heyoo Links.

Links234

Gremlinertia wrote: »

I imagine it is rare enough, i don't think a lot of people in the west 'get' it for want of a better way to put it.. My language skills are pretty crap so i can't imagine tackling Japanese at all!

It's not that it's rare, there's someanime on Netflix, it's just severely lacking in serious quality shows and movies. You've got no Ghibli, nothing from directors Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Hosoda or Makoto Shinkai. That said, there is Steins;Gate and Psycho-Pass, as well as the original Ghost in the Shell movie. But that's netflix for you, if it's anything niche at all, you've got a threadbare selection.

Anyway, what's to 'get'?

But yeah, if you want to know how bad netflix is for anything niche, go look up how many westerns there are on there, aside from a handful of good movies, it's absolutely barren.

Also, hey Angron. I nearly choked on the irony of the Pokeemans mod calling me a weeb.

Gremlinertia

I looked at netflix listings before and said nah i'll skip it.. As you said, short on niche material, or well so called niche. It's not that there's anything major to get but a lot of people are very set in their ways.. Change is bad etc.

Angron

Links234 wrote: »

It's not that it's rare, there's someanime on Netflix, it's just severely lacking in serious quality shows and movies. You've got no Ghibli, nothing from directors Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Hosoda or Makoto Shinkai. That said, there is Steins;Gate and Psycho-Pass, as well as the original Ghost in the Shell movie. But that's netflix for you, if it's anything niche at all, you've got a threadbare selection.

Anyway, what's to 'get'?

But yeah, if you want to know how bad netflix is for anything niche, go look up how many westerns there are on there, aside from a handful of good movies, it's absolutely barren.

Also, hey Angron. I nearly choked on the irony of the Pokeemans mod calling me a weeb.

I don't see any irony.

>_>
<_<

Links234

Gremlinertia wrote: »

I looked at netflix listings before and said nah i'll skip it.. As you said, short on niche material, or well so called niche. It's not that there's anything major to get but a lot of people are very set in their ways.. Change is bad etc.

Yeah, you're not wrong tbh, quite a few people would turn their nose up at something just because it's animated, which is a serious pity. But what I mean is, that's not the reason for Netflix's poor selection.

Gremlinertia

It's animated but not by disney/pixar? *confused look*

Bless.

Netflix doesn't have a lot for me either, the type of movies i like aren't terribly popular i guess.

Links234

Yeah? What are you into?

And we'll have to introduce you to some good anime at some stage Grem

Gremlinertia

Mainly european and scandinavian arthouse/indy projects.. When i get feckin time.. Mostly reading these days.. Oh like opera too.

Links234

I do like some Scandinavian movies. Let The Right One In is one of my favourite movies ever, as is The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Also been watching The Bridge, which is seven shades of fantastic! Just started season 2 during the week.

Gremlinertia

Great movies.. Never thought i'd be saying this but i really need to sit down and watch some telly.

Links234

Have you seen The Bridge?

Gremlinertia

Nope but i want to.. Don't know where all my time has gone but it has. Actually, have you watched the fall?.

Links234

The TV series The Fall, or the movie?

Gremlinertia

The series..

Links234

No, not seen it.

Gremlinertia

Thinking i might give it a watch too if i get a chance..