5 Questions from evilchick
So, since this is the second set I'm answering I'll put it behind a cut.
1. Build a new political party from the ground up. Give it an awesome name and describe its platform on major issues.
The major platform points on the New Centrist Par-tay!
-Laws are for enumerating rights, not eliminating.
-Our military needs to be strong enough to defend us as an economic power and no more.
-The best way to improve our society is through education for all.
-No one should go to bed without having eaten that day.
-We don't care who you fuck as long they're of age and consenting. This goes for marriage as well.
-More vices can be made legal, regulated and taxed
-Legalizing abortion is better than the alternative.
2. NWoD vs. OWoD: which is a better system, technically speaking? Which allows more creativity, from a storyteller POV?
From a pure technical standpoint, I think that NWoD is a better system. The rules are cleaner and more efficient. From a creativity standpoint I like OWoD cause that was just crazy shit where you could do anything cause there was just so much crap! Rules are an obstacle to creativity but a good gamemaster can work around them.
3. Lance Armstrong: what do you admire about him and why?
I can essentially sum up what I admire about Lance Armstrong in one phrase: "Extended periods of intense concentration." It isn't Armstrong's success I'd admire so much as his drive to succeed. He takes a problem (how can I survive cancer? how can I return to cycling? how can I win the premier event?) and focus' his entire being into creating the solution. When he got cancer, he focused his life on figuring out what he could do to survive it and then went out and did it. He found that to be a successful American cyclist he needed to win the Tour de France and he helped build a team to do that and then focused that team on winning it more times than anyone in history. You can find other examples from his life after his battle with cancer.
Lance Armstrong is not a perfect individual. I feel he's done a lot for cancer survivors and his life has a lot of lessons that others could use in their own. Chief among those are 1). It shouldn't take a near death experience to appreciate life and 2). You can't let the things in your life that don't matter interfere with the things that do. And that, more than anything, is why I admire him.
4. You have good things to say about how Apple treats its employees. What is your opinion of Steve Jobs? Just another self-interested rich guy or something different?
Hmmm...I definitely don't think he's "just" another self-interested rich guy. He's definitely rich and self interested but I think he has a good vision of what the home computer can and should be and how it can be used to improve a person's life. In the hierarchy of evil, Apple is below Google (do no evil) and above Microsoft (embrace and extend!). I think that any company follows the lead of it's most visible people and Apple does okay. Also, I've got to like a guy who game me three extra days off cause the company made a lot of money last year.
5. Sometimes you're self-deprecating to a fault. Name one thing that other people admire about you and say why.
Wow. I'll be honest, this question has taken me the longest to find an answer because it hits the closest to home. So, without getting into all my mental problems and the reasons why I take a shot at myself before anyone else can (it's cause it hurts less that way) I'll say that my friends most admire me for my ability to cook. As for why, well, who doesn't like to eat good food?
1. Build a new political party from the ground up. Give it an awesome name and describe its platform on major issues.
The major platform points on the New Centrist Par-tay!
-Laws are for enumerating rights, not eliminating.
-Our military needs to be strong enough to defend us as an economic power and no more.
-The best way to improve our society is through education for all.
-No one should go to bed without having eaten that day.
-We don't care who you fuck as long they're of age and consenting. This goes for marriage as well.
-More vices can be made legal, regulated and taxed
-Legalizing abortion is better than the alternative.
2. NWoD vs. OWoD: which is a better system, technically speaking? Which allows more creativity, from a storyteller POV?
From a pure technical standpoint, I think that NWoD is a better system. The rules are cleaner and more efficient. From a creativity standpoint I like OWoD cause that was just crazy shit where you could do anything cause there was just so much crap! Rules are an obstacle to creativity but a good gamemaster can work around them.
3. Lance Armstrong: what do you admire about him and why?
I can essentially sum up what I admire about Lance Armstrong in one phrase: "Extended periods of intense concentration." It isn't Armstrong's success I'd admire so much as his drive to succeed. He takes a problem (how can I survive cancer? how can I return to cycling? how can I win the premier event?) and focus' his entire being into creating the solution. When he got cancer, he focused his life on figuring out what he could do to survive it and then went out and did it. He found that to be a successful American cyclist he needed to win the Tour de France and he helped build a team to do that and then focused that team on winning it more times than anyone in history. You can find other examples from his life after his battle with cancer.
Lance Armstrong is not a perfect individual. I feel he's done a lot for cancer survivors and his life has a lot of lessons that others could use in their own. Chief among those are 1). It shouldn't take a near death experience to appreciate life and 2). You can't let the things in your life that don't matter interfere with the things that do. And that, more than anything, is why I admire him.
4. You have good things to say about how Apple treats its employees. What is your opinion of Steve Jobs? Just another self-interested rich guy or something different?
Hmmm...I definitely don't think he's "just" another self-interested rich guy. He's definitely rich and self interested but I think he has a good vision of what the home computer can and should be and how it can be used to improve a person's life. In the hierarchy of evil, Apple is below Google (do no evil) and above Microsoft (embrace and extend!). I think that any company follows the lead of it's most visible people and Apple does okay. Also, I've got to like a guy who game me three extra days off cause the company made a lot of money last year.
5. Sometimes you're self-deprecating to a fault. Name one thing that other people admire about you and say why.
Wow. I'll be honest, this question has taken me the longest to find an answer because it hits the closest to home. So, without getting into all my mental problems and the reasons why I take a shot at myself before anyone else can (it's cause it hurts less that way) I'll say that my friends most admire me for my ability to cook. As for why, well, who doesn't like to eat good food?