Wednesday DE

[splash_of_blue]

Morning all! By kind permission of Maru, I bring to you a Midweek Guest DE:

What strange devilry has Milliways committed in your brain? Are there mental associations or assumptions that you always make because of this game which would be completely bizarre or nonsensical to a non-player?

I'll start:
- Matt Bellamy is not the lead singer of Muse but in fact a ridiculous hotshot space pilot. (Hi Wes!)

- The correct lyrics to a certain famous Nineties pop hit are "And I said what about//Breakfast at Milliways". As I discovered at a club last weekend when it played and I sang the correct improved lyrics...

- When very stressed, I repeat to myself the mantra of "All shall be well and all manner of things shall be well... timezones permitting." (I saw it on someone's icon back in the LJ days and it stuck.)

- "Let us not go to X... it is a silly place" is not a Monty Python reference, it's a Millicon motto. (And 'try not to die' is not a Runaways battlecry, but ditto.)

- "Dropped a house on her" doesn't recall The Wizard of Oz, but Puck and Blodwen, cariad.

Comments

[cook_the_rude]

The odd effect of knowing people and worlds only from Milliways. It gives you an odd perspective on canons that aren't strictly speaking your thing -- for me, that is generally videogames. I don't do them. So, video games are either irrelevant to me or it's "Eeee it's so-and-so's canon!" Just now, the two guys teaching this course I am in were talking about some game set in some post-apocalyptic future after nukes had been thrown around a little, and then aliens arrived, and I recognised it as Gordon's and Alyx' world -- no idea what the game is called. But "Hey, I met people from there!" is not a valid response in small talk about games...

[camwyn]

That'd be Half-Life. (Which is indirectly responsible for me getting into the Fallout games, since the first time I saw a commercial for Fallout 3 I thought I was seeing an ad for the Half-Life sequel that we've been waiting for since 2007...)

[runningred]

Falling in love with an 8th Byzantine Emperor after researching him as backstory.

Worrying about my morals as a human being while plotting character torture. And finding people just as evil as me. (You know who you are.)

Getting excited when Sherlock made certain comments in the latest series that sounded very much like things he and Sinric had talked about.

Using the phrases millitimed and instaslow in real life.

Seeing Alan Cummings perform live and wishing Jay was there with me.

Reading every book, watching every TV show and movie with half an eye out for who I'd bring to the bar.

[bjornwilde]

Seeing Alan Cummings perform live and wishing Jay was there with me.

This! So many times I'm enjoying something and think how much a pup would love it.

[bjornwilde]

Recognizing PBs from roles not related to their Milliways counterparts. Like watching a movie with Judd Law and having to remind myself that this is not in fact Moist in the story.

Seeing something a PB is doing and thinking I needed to point it out to the mun in case they want the icons to use.

Discovering new foods/drinks/holidays and thinking how much they needed to happen in Milliways.

[andinfluencepeople]

The most obvious one is probably when I saw the trailer for Serenity and, in the middle of a movie theatre, went "why is Bernard in space???" Otherwise, a lot of vaguely-knowing canons or being convinced I am right about a canon I don't know and the local geek comic boys are wrong (so far this has always held true -- thanks, Debi!)

[ceitfianna]

One of the big things for me is whenever I spot toys of certain characters, I think about Milliways' people and have that moment of oh, its Clint or Fallout, I wonder if their player would like this. I've also had this happen much more on Twitter and Tumblr when I see art of other canons and going, must share this so the player will see it.

Trailers for new movies can be very strange if there are faces I know but they don't seem right. Also when it comes to my PBs, if I see them in something else, I'm immediately thinking, would still from this work for icons or could this be IMDB flu material. Tumblr has multiplied the effect of this with all the gifs and stills it provides. An example is how when Logan Lerman was in Three Musketeers, I pretty much hid through the entire movie as I had such second hand embarrassment for him, he was so earnest while everyone else was chewing scenery. Later though his D'Artagnan was perfect for IMDB flu.

Whenever I see certain books in the bookstore, its like oh, hello canon of my friend, also true of movies or when I see a TV show. I've stopped and watched lots of unexpected things because I remember they were connected to a Milliways' canon. Recommending comes in a different way too because I don't always play main characters but I want everyone to read my canons.

Meeting a Milliways' person for the first time and the name that sticks in the online handle. I now answer to Fi in person because of this. And that moment of interacting on a different social network and trying to place by wait, who do you play?

Having a really firm idea of a canon due to how its played in Milliways and finally seeing it and going either oh, it all makes sense or huh, they improved it.

[fairy_fixit]

Well, mainly, when consuming a new canon I start thinking "How would Amascut ruin this plot?" :-c naughty little breaker of canons, haha. Still hasn't broken her own though. I attribute that to her feline-like laziness. :-D

But other than that, I have a greater awareness of actors (voice and otherwise) that get reused in EVERYTHING

[chanter1944]

I have to stop myself using say thankya, say sorry, and say xiexie in conversation or text outside game circles.

Yes to the falling house reference, and the knowing people by handles and/or pups.

[weaver]

"Say thankya" has really stuck with me, and it REALLY doesn't work outside game! "Here's your thing." "Say thankya." "What? Why would I thank you?"

So I don't actually say it ... but I always think it.

Also, "Frellin' nineteen." I'm not even sure I remember how that one came about, but I'm sure it came from the bar.

[cute_bruiser]

Oh God yeah, say thankya.

This stupid game, I'm telling you.

[chanter1944]

19 is also game via Dark Tower, and I've got it too, in the sense that the number gives me a moment's pause every time. Frell I knew before, though.

[weaver]

Yeah, it's the combination that was a popular Milliways saying a......... really, really long time ago. An embarrassingly long time ago. Like, 2006.

On 16 March 2017 at 09:19, chanter_greenie - DW Comment < dw_null@dreamwidth.org> wrote:

[chanter1944]

Oh I get it! ... And don't, same as you. :)

Oh frak. This is comment 19!

[guppy_sandhu]

I also do the Breakfast at Milliways song XD

I think the one most specific to me is that there are some pretty good and famous canons that I absolutely can't watch because people I know will die.

[fairy_fixit]

Oh, you've reminded me of when I started seeing commercials for </scorpion> and being confused by a Guppy.

Maybe if I had been watching Game of Thrones I would have been more confused. :D

[misslucyjane]

I still think of all y'all as Millifolken.

[chanter1944]

SO MUCH THIS!! :D

[inlovewithwords]

Other than the fact that I spent far too much time in my recent Doctor Who LARP at the Milliways module and kept saving the cup item cards from it because lolmilliwayscup and still have at least one (NEVER LETTING GO OF IT), and the wonderful people I have made friends with?

Honestly, the biggest effect Milliways has had on my brain is on my entire perception of RP and design theory for LJ/DW-style games. It would kind of take a long time to go into, and involves a lot of compare-contrast and I could probably write an essay on this if I wanted to. The most succinct way of putting it is that even if I don't intend to play a character at Milliways, but rather at another game, if it's a new character to test out entirely? I will always, always do a Milliways-set test post in PFSB or MM over meme threads or other test options. It is just the only way that seems natural to me of playtesting a new character.