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Post by AstralFire on Jul 28, 2005 12:27:48 GMT -5
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we call a travesty... It's a program to make characters in short stories for you.# Enneagram-based character generator * Answer a few questions and Character Pro will generate a complete character for you. # Relationships generator * Select the personality type of any other character and Character Pro will suggest what their relationship might be like. |
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Post by Oatway on Jul 28, 2005 14:44:43 GMT -5
Dead link.
Horrible idea, though, just horrible ... Taking the creation out of an art...
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Post by AstralFire on Jul 28, 2005 15:58:47 GMT -5
Fix'd!
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Post by Oatway on Jul 28, 2005 16:57:43 GMT -5
I don't think it was made with the sole purpose of designing characters; it seems to advertise the fact that it can catalogue all of the information...
Still, horrible idea...
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Post by Zuki on Jul 28, 2005 20:39:08 GMT -5
Yeah. That's what your damn spiral notebook is for.
Or your extensive files in notepad, or wordpad, or word, or open office....
On a personal level, I wouldn't trust something like this. It has that "too user friendly" feel that I distrusted about AOL.
However, I can sadly see why it exists--bored people, with money on their hands, bored rich people, would buy something like this. Because they think it will help their story. Or their golf game. Or help them learn Farsi faster. You know what I mean. It's the Yuppie effect. This is the sort of thing that would be advertised in those actually-kinda-cool-at-first magazines they always leave in the seat pockets of airplanes.
And really, there's nothing wrong with a random generator or two--but I've never actually seriously created a character based on one. Some of my fondest creations--actually, just about all of them--were created as a result of conversations with friends. With People. To go on a tangent, Cassi and I actually have a lot of fun with it. The story of Egg, for example. And now the anime which we're going to plot out, but never actually bother to write down or have anyone draw, I think. It's called Teen Yogo. You want to know how that name came about? We were at the YMCA today, and I saw a flyer on the back wall that said, "Teen Yoga classes will be cancelled through august." And I remarked, because I'm silly like that, that Teen Yoga might make a good name for an anime--kind of a silly anime, but still. Cassi misheard me, and heard Teen Yogo. Then I remarked on how you'll sometimes see people in anime with altered ages--little kids suddenly thrown into highschool, and vice-versa. Then Cassi got an Idea.
As it turns out, Yogo's actually apparently some 200-year old shaolin mystic kung fu master kinda guy. And, uh, he gets this premonition that something bad's gonna happen. So he wants to put himself at the right place and the right time. But of course, he's old. Really, really, old. When the only thing keeping your body together in your sheer force of will, it's kinda hard to go fight evil. So he makes a deal with this demon, to rejuvenate his body....
Maybe it looks like a wacky high school antics kind of anime, but as the discussion went on, and due to cassi's influence, it's getting a bit more serious. Maybe I"ll make a proper post about it later, I've totally railroaded this one.
In conclusion, I don't need no steeenkin' software--and I didn't even get to mention the fact that I'm kinda suspicious of the Enneagram thing. I mean, I've read just a bit about it before, but it kinda tweaks me that they're using a psychological archetype classification thing to make characters with. Well, actually, it's kind of a neat idea, but....using a program to do the work for you, seems kinda...well, after a while, all the characters popping out would feel kinda the same. I'm wrong, I think, but you know what I mean?
In further conclusion, meh.
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