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Pushkin is on my giant huge TO READ list, I just haven't gotten to him yet.

I have a Dreamwidth but have never used it. I just wanted to make sure I had the name in case.

KoL is fun. I should play more. One thing that I think is awesome is that a couple of friends of mine, one of whom is blind, figured out that because it's text-based, it's the only computer game she's ever really been able to play. She wants more people to make games like that.

Have you heard of the documentary called "Get Lamp"? I haven't had a chance to see it yet, dispite being around at events where screenings were held, but I believe it has a section that focuses on blind players. He was also trying to make sure the dvd was fully deaf and blind accessible.

That's awesome! I'll pass it on.

I am not afraid of water, but I do not intend to learn to SCUBA dive.

Ah, right, forgot that option.

Why did Planescape break your heart?

So much potential, but rarely was it correctly executed. Cramming that kind of setting on top of AD&D 2nd ed. mechanics... it wasn't a bad fit, but it certainly wasn't a great fit.

i have a facebook, and i occasionally post messages on it (but rarely). i don't care for facebook but there are a few friends that use it that i can't keep up with any other way.
i'm the same at twitter and dreamwidth as i am here <3
i would love to try tabletop gaming, but i've never had enough friends that were into it in the same place long enough to play w/ me. <3
also: what would you suggest as a good intro to Pushkin? (i've heard of him; i just haven't read any)

That's a great question (re Pushkin)!
I'll see if I can dig up that one translation I found for Cat.

You don't have an option for 'familiar with KoL but don't play it'. I have a friend who's a radio DJ on one of their channels, so I hear a lot of the gossip, but I've never gone near it myself.

Ahh, right.

It's funny, missing various options on polls reminds me of programming, and making sure that all possible logical variants are accounted for, and code coverage.
I hope I'm a better programmer than poll maker. ;)

I hear ya!

I don't think they will release any, though.
On the other hand, one can always hope for fan-made translation material. I know there's a body of work to update it to 3rd edition. Hopefully, 4th will follow eventually.

I hate FB, but I use it because certain family and friends do all their communicating there, and I love them.

I have a Dreamwidth placeholder account, but probably won't use it unless LJ goes kaput, or certain family and friends migrate there and I love them. :)

Have heard of Pushkin, but have not actually read anything.

I have a Dreamwidth account, but haven't really been using it. Mostly because I'm lazy.

I said that I use Twitter... but it's actually pretty infrequent. I've contemplated using it more--but I'm not sure that I could really keep up with it. I've already got ADD and it seems to feed into it too much for my liking (since I've been working on cultivating a longer attention span).

And I've heard of KoL, just have been trying to avoid another time suck.

I love Pushkin and can mouth along to facing-page translations with basic Russian. My introduction came in teenage Russian lessons, when my teacher had a habit of reciting 'Ya vac lubil' suddenly and dramatically and for no obvious reason. I don't think she was being post-ironic with the cultural stereotypes, she just loved her Pushkin.

This month I am moving in with Boyfriend by the sea and my two great ambitions are:
1) play a table top role-playing game for the first time ever (he has gaming friends, I never did & have spent my whole life wanting to play D&D)
2) learn to scuba dive & sail.

Oh, awesome. Where are you moving to (which sea)?

Moving to Canterbury, England. It's about 10 miles from the coast, but there is nearish sea in three directions! It's the closest I've ever been, anyway.

Curious local sea-fact: the Wantsum Channel used to be full of boats and water in the middle ages, but it silted up and has been eerily flat land for centuries.
http://www.ecastles.co.uk/wantsum.html
Everything inside the dotted lines is land now.

I started using FB as a marketing tool, but ended up with all kinds of long lost friends and family too. I play one game there, mainly because the points from it transfer to another site that I do game at.

Can swim, not afraid of water, not interested in being fully submerged and away from air for any length of time.

Aware of Pushkin (not certain what you intend by "familiar with" in this context), not bright enough to assimilate content.

Familiar with KoL, but am incapable of any sort of gaming and do not play.

I've only had minimal exposure to Planescape - not really enough to determine how much I liked it (it was a kind of meh group) but that was still the closest option.

I'm *familiar* with KoL, I haven't played it. I'm boring that way.

I'd probably appreciate Alexander Pushkin if he hadn't been "required" reading in a lit class where the professor picked poorly translated pieces. However, branching out from that, the poems I've come across that weren't required that were of better translated quality have been quite good.

And I'm an equal opportunity account holder... I've got a journal fen, insane journal, dreamwidth, greatest journal, blogger, vox, myspace, facebook, twitter and ... something else, but I really only use LJ the most.

I'm with the people who create accounts pretty much anywhere, though I almost only ever -read- LJ and don't post much of anywhere except Twitter right now.

I love KoL, though I haven't played nearly as much since Echo Bazaar kicked up.

Aaand I thought Planescape could have been ever so much more than it was. At least it was better than Darksun, though.

One of my long-time New Orleans friends is George Williams, who wrote a bunch of Planescape. Odd connections in this small world...