JANUARY HOW'S MY DRIVING

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HOW'S MY DRIVING

Welcome to Singularity's community How's My Driving!

What is the HMD? The HMD is an optional meme in which players can receive concrit and feedback on how they handle their characters. Please remember to be constructive in your feedback; flaming will not be tolerated on this meme.

Please note that while receiving positive feedback is also nice, it's much nicer to know exactly why someone might think they're doing a good job. Try to be specific as possible, although there's no rule saying you have to.

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[blacktwo.livejournal.com]

Your crit's well place and I have little room to argue. I've no issue taking this to heart because I myself felt unsure about her voice throughout the game and have slowly making the attempt to repair her character and aware while I was making progress, I was still struggling with parts of her character the required a lot of player-to-player communication and simply just more effort on my part.

However, this is where I have to argue not the crit itself, but your feelings over you thinking I ever expected you to handwave months of CR. I've approached you on several occasions, attempting to plot and questioning you about my handling of Two, And while you're under no circumstances responsible for me or my characters, I can't help but feel frustrated when I'm trying to plot with you on AIM and only get "yy" or "nnn I don't think that'll work" or even just "/nodnod" as a reply. It works both ways here. I really want One and Two’s relationship to be more, well, One and Two in nature but I can’t do that if you don’t work with me a bit more. The times on AIM or plurk I’ve approached you, asking to plot you kind of just…shut down and it’s almost like you don’t want to talk to me. It wasn’t even three days ago I explicitly asked you about my handling of Two in private and only got brief, uncertain replies. That’s not even including the tags I’m still waiting on in the Ghost Broventures log. Which I was hoping would’ve let them reconnect. Not to mention, you’ve been making One a more present force recently, and I’ve been trying to tag her. Really, I’m making the effort here, too. If you’ve felt that effort was simply not enough, it’s not like I haven’t been around for you to discuss this with me. And it’s definitely not like I haven’t approached you with my uncertainties in the past.

Now about Jorge. Yes, there wasn’t done with much planning or even a lot of seriousness behind it. In hindsight, I regret it not because I did it, but because it was done in such a rushed way. The actual log was left unfinished and I was hoping it would have justified it a little more and expressed Two’s overall reservations about it from start to finish and her introspection on the matter. However, I can’t pretend that I’m not having difficulties playing everything by ear when I have a character with such little screen time with her own source material. I’m not trying to make up excuses, but it’s just hard to be told one thing, start building on that and then find out I was doing it wrong. Again, she’s my responsibility and I shouldn’t ask to be held by the hand with everything I do with her. I was never even completely sure about the whole lesbian thing. That idea was born out of our joking and it ultimately has no actual backing in canon and it was something I wanted to build on from the ground up and not have Two just be doki-doki about One so much as be in a position where she knows there’s something there, just not really what. I genuinely wanted to expand on that more, and just never really got the chance?