fear of should

[melannen]

1. I hit level 50 and got Beastmaster and have now rejiggered my Habitica/HabitRPG lists to make it harder. Hopefully not harder to get stuff done, but to make the game harder. Part of that was because the kitties are leaving on Friday so all the "keep kitties happy" dailies on the list went away. ;_; Sister is also leaving friday but eh, she is not a kitty.

Anyway it was mostly turning habits into dailies, we'll see if I am crushed under this. Also, "mess around with HabitRPG items" is now a reward I have to pay for with gold. Because there's only so many times to stare at my collection of pixel creatures before it is procrastination for its own sake.

2. One of the new dailies is "comment on a fanwork" which is going to be REALLY HARD, folks, ugh, commenting, so many ways it can go wrong, so perfectly designed to freeze me up. But! various people are talking about an informal commenting bingo challenge, so I am going to do it! Or fail trying! So if I leave a weird awkward comment on your stuff in the next couple weeks, sorry, I am doing my best.

work you bookmarked/rec'd but didn't comment on	positive comment on a work you liked but had some issues with	in a language other than English	work that forever changed your perception of canon	3 works by the same author
somebody's first fanwork	that's under 100 hits	in the Yuletide bookmarks collection	previous comment was over a year ago	with more than 5 "additional" tags
by someone who's given you a kudos or a comment this week	from Yuletide 2014	ADFADSFLKJ;	2+ responses to the same prompt	work you've re-read many many times
work you would have otherwise skipped without reading	more than ten years old	fic that's over 20k	a work by a mod or somebody else who labors behind the scenes	an ongoing WIP
positive comment on a work by someone you really don't admire	work you've had marked 'to read later' for over a month	in Yuletide Madness	poetry or filk	meta

List I input:
3 works by the same author,a fandom you mean to request this Yuletide,a fandom you’ve previously requested,a work you first read over 5 years ago,podfic,fanart,meta,fanvid,poetry or filk,from Yuletide before 2009,from Yuletide 2013,from Yuletide 2012,from Yuletide 2014,a comment of 100+ words,a comment of 6 or less words,a comment where you quote your favourite line,work in an exchange you wrote for that isn't Yuletide,a fandom where there are fewer than 10 works,a work that you found via freeforms,fic that's under 5k,fic that's under 500 words,fic that's over 20k,that's under 100 hits,with multiple chapters,in Yuletide Madness,by someone who's given you a kudos or a comment this week,3 different works in the same fandom,the first comment on a work,work you apparently kudos'd long ago but don't remember,in a Yuletide Madness collection (any),in the Yuletide bookmarks collection,work you bookmarked/rec'd but didn't comment on,2+ responses to the same prompt,with more than 5 "additional" tags,an ongoing WIP,WIP that was last updated over a year ago, without asking for more,by a friend or neighbor,by somebody you've never heard of,in a language other than English,an explicit pwp,work you've had marked 'to read later' for over a month,fandom you used to be really into but aren't anymore,work by someone you really admire,positive comment on a work by someone you really don't admire,work that forever changed your perception of canon,work you would have otherwise skipped without reading,work you've re-read many many times,in a fandom you know only from fandom,positive comment on a work you liked but had some issues with,that was recommended this week,more than ten years old,somebody's first fanwork,comment, then rec,previous comment was over a year ago,a work by a mod or somebody else who labors behind the scenes

Comments

[recessional]

\o/ Commenting! \o/

[melannen]

/o\ commenting /o\

[melannen]

It's not even commenting itself that's so hard these days, it's "what if I comment on one fic but not the other fic and they think it means the other fic is bad even though it's just that I ran out of comment juice before I got there, better off commenting on nothing" which I suspect is a brainweasel sentiment you might understand from the other end. <_<

[recessional]

I dooo it is the WORST brainweasel sentiment. Or at least one of them. (Because I also totally know it is a crazy!)

It's so obnoxious, isn't it? All we in general really want to do is tell each other stories and be happy and exchange-y-of-energy about it and then brains make us ridiculous.

[melannen]

Yep! I'm hoping the challenge structure will help me get around that a little because then if worst comes to worst I can go "look over there! it was for a challenge!" and then run away.

bah. brains.

[amadi]

I signed up for HabitRPG and even downloaded the app for my phone but I feel like I don't quite understand it, (like what exactly the difference is between a habit and a daily) and consequently I forget to use it, and my little avatar died or lost all its gold or whatever, and probably will do so again soon. Fail, Amadi, fail. Why is this so difficult to me?

On another note, would it be cheesy or defeating the point to run a commenting bingo on a mini-scale? Generating cards for people, etc.?

[melannen]

Well, the main difference is that if you don't do your habits, nothing happens, but if you don't do your dailies, your little avatar dies and loses all its gold.

I joined as part of a party one of my LM friends was putting together, I think it did help a lot to have more experienced people explaining things to me when I was starting.

[amadi]

Ahh thank you. Now I need to go make my dailies into habits and habits into dailies. I had it exactly backwards.

[highlander_ii]

Can I comment here and tell you that I will, officially, not think that you hate all my other stuff if you only comment on 1 thing?

You can even tell me if you prefer that I not reply to your comments, b/c the 1 thing I try very hard to do, is reply to all my comments. =)

[ratcreature]

Congrats on the Beastmaster. I am only a few mounts away from Mountmaster myself, which has been annoyingly difficult because somehow I seem to find more eggs than food. And that even though I picked a class and my gear tilted for maximum perception. Or maybe it is that they need so much food to grow.

[fay_e]

Trello wasn't successful in kicking my butt to do things, so I'm trying HabitRPG now... though I don't quite understand the reward system /o\

[dhampyresa]

Congrats on the HabitRPG achievement!

And that commenting challenge looks nice.

[melannen]

Oh, good, glad I can help!

The wiki that you get to from the FAQ is actually pretty good, once you're oriented enough to know what to look for.

[melannen]

You are welcome to tell me that! Sadly it won't help much, because what if *someone else* sees that I commented on your thing but not their thing??? (augh, brains.)

And you are welcome to reply to my comments as long as you won't get sad if I don't reply back!

[melannen]

Yeah, eggs and hatching potions seem to drop a lot more than food.

...or maybe it's just that I always spend the food immediately but the eggs have to sit around. At least I could theoretically sell them for gold and buy food from the armoire, I guess? Not a very good trade, though.

[melannen]

I don't really understand the reward system either, I'm treating it as "ooh maybe if I do a thing I will get a thing", which is probably better for me than understanding it well enough to game it properly, anyway.

[melannen]

I hope it's fun! The first work I commented on yesterday hit 4 bingo squares, but they were all easy ones, so I'm waiting to see what I end up needing before I cross anything out.

[ratcreature]

But doesn't food cost gems, i.e. real money, if you want to buy it? I don't think you can get it for gold, same as with the quests for special pets.

[melannen]

If you've bought the maximum gear for your class, and then bought the enchanted armoire, and then bought all the gear that's in the enchanted armoire, it will randomly spit out XP and/or food (but never eggs or potions) every time you stick 100 gold in it.

Not the most efficient way to get food - you'd have to sell 33 eggs to get one random item from the armoire - but I guess eventually as I level up that may start to seem like it's worth it.

(or I could just give in and buy some gems already. I guess.)

[ratcreature]

Yeah, okay, I've done that, that's not really "buying" food though, imo. I still like the armoire because past a certain point of what you need for the occasional health potion gold isn't good for anything otherwise, so I don't mind reducing it. And I'm not into buying self-created rewards. I find that silly. But the costumes are kind of neat. I like the recent plague doctor one.

[melannen]

I set myself up with "play with your habitrpg avatar" as a reward I have to spend gold on because that was becoming a problem, but yeah, other than that and occasionally buying new seasonal gear, it's not doing much else at this point.

[highlander_ii]

I will not be sad if you don't reply back! Promise! =)

[catpella]

That commenting challenge looks fine. I've never had a problem with commenting, actually; I love leaving them, even when I think what I said sounds stupid. I happily comment on fic I loved. But sometimes I forget to comment on things I just liked or read, and this inspires me to keep going.