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  1. Immolate's Avatar
    I love Deviant Art, so don't get me wrong, but if there is a community there, I have not found it. It strikes me as a bit like WoW. Lots of people and some tight groups, but mostly you're on your own.

    Here, the community is fairly monolithic. We are all part of the same group, thought each of us has his or her aspects that interest them. There is no "you guys over in that corner" type of thing going on.
  2. tilt's Avatar
    I agree with Ascension here - especially on his third point. I just recieved a llahma on Deviant Art - I didn't know the guy who gave me one, and I didn't know what it meant. So I went in search of an answer. Google provided me with a link back to DA where another guy posed the question - "what is it?" ... and, what I can only describe as a bunch of twelve years old, jumped on him basicly telling him he was an idiot for not knowing. DA is also supposed to be a community where art is in center and people help each other be better by commenting on others efforts - but that thread would never had happened here ... so thanks fellow cartographers for being the nice, polite, helpfull people you are
  3. Ascension's Avatar
    For me the main thing was, and always will be, the eye candy. I can rely on there always being something cool to look at and inspire me. Second, with so many people trying out different things, software or techniques, I can rely on always finding new little tidbits to pick up and try out for myself. Third (for me), is probably the most important thing here...all the great people and the politeness to be found here and (seemingly) nowhere else. Why we have such a great community amazes me sometimes with such a broad range of ages, nationalities, styles, software choices, genre preferences, and maturity levels. Maybe it's due to the "we're all nerds" bonding factor, maybe it's due to the example set by our staff and core members, maybe we all just love to tinker and experiment, maybe we just like to share and help others...who knows. I lived in a fraternity when I was in college with 140 other dudes but this place has more of a bond than that place ever did. The Guild and its members have become almost as important as air and food to me. Maybe that's the real key...we care about The Guild and its members and we all want to belong somewhere. And with so many different worlds to explore our home here is always exciting and new. Maybe that's the most important thing. It's probably all of that put together. When I think of the people here and if we were to uproot all of us and put us into a different forum where the focus was something different, say "how to trick out your car", I don't think it would have the same feel.
  4. Immolate's Avatar
    I'm glad you pointed it out. I have enough trouble getting common words correct these days. I agree now that the names are rich and textured, but then they were awkward... or seemed so to me. Even then I had lived in many places, but they were all English-speaking, with a few months here and there spent in Germany.
  5. Redrobes's Avatar
    Sorry to point out you spelled Tolkien wrong but never mind, while were on the subject I had problems with his names too only in that several are similar. You have Sauron and Sauroman, Eowyn and Arwen, Erebor and Eriador etc but besides that there are some fantastic ones as well like Gondor, Lorien and Aragorn for example. Without the strange names and genuine strange language you would not get the feeling of depth in those books.
  6. tilt's Avatar
    *lol*... yes, and I've been to the City of Dripping Snot, its not a nice place
    and what reminded you - was it the hammock *lol*... didn't go with banana though
  7. Immolate's Avatar
    Good thoughts tilt, and you reminded me of a hazard of using foreign language names that "sound right". Too often, the name sounds right because it's a word in the foreign language that you've heard before but don't remember consciously. Even if that isn't the case, it might still be a word. You run the danger of accidently inventing a town called "The City of Dripping Snot" in Danish. Of course, in Britain, such a name would be par for the course.
  8. tilt's Avatar
    Great blog entry Immolate, and I totally agree, you know if it feels right. I've tried many different techniques over the years, all from drawing letter from a scrabble game, punching random letters on a keyboard and referencing from the appendixes in Silmarilion. But today I mostly just "sound" my way to a name - I also often use normal words to create city or town names - Breakwater, Silvergroove, Bull's Hammock, Cliffs of the Hand, Millers Hill, Dark Wood etc etc ... most of those just thought of this very moment *lol* to illustrate my point.
    Oh, and tilt is thought of the same way - just needed a name for my very first chat session and thought of tilt, it stuck
  9. Ascension's Avatar
    Yep, just takin er for a test drive. I ain't startin my own bloggity blog blog thingamajig.
  10. Immolate's Avatar
    Looks like it works, but your post is a response to my blog. If that's what you were going for, great! If not, you did something wrong
  11. Ascension's Avatar
    Blahbitty blah blah blah. Check one. Check dos. (This city) rocks! Yeah! Just checkin to see how this works or if it does.
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