Do you have a favorite band or musician whose music is not easy to find? Or maybe not all of their music, but a specific album or EP?
Oddly enough... no. I'm not really the type of music lover that sticks to specific bands or musicians. In fact, what I listen to the most is music that does not have words, orchestrated pieces, and game music. I find it to be the most inspirational when I'm both drawing and writing. I haven't bought albums since my days in highschool when I was on the bandwagon of things like boybands (such as The Backstreet Boys/BSB). I've far outgrown that, thankfully. But my music tastes do vary, and I do listen to other things from time to time. I'm just not big on buying from the music industry these days.
What about the Internet really gets on your nerves?
A lot of things, but I think the number one pet peeve that I have with the internet is the ability to remain anonymous. You can be a complete jerkass to people and you never have to show them your face or anything about you. "Anonymous" has also caused problems on larger scales, as well, for companies and other organizations. It allows people a threshold for hatred without bars---they simply don't need them and have free reign to be jerks, be insensitive, mock others, and even threatening. Case in point to the recent anonymous e-mail sent to a feminist gamer who was going to make a speech. I won't go into the details, but he basically made a lot of disgusting comments to her and promised a massacre if she was allowed to give her speech.
Now, I'm not saying anonymous is always a bad thing. I have used it before, both to give compliments and to bring up a topic that I found difficult to speak about without fear of getting dog-piled. And in those senses, I can see why it helps some people that fall back on it. But it has a horrible downside of being easy to abuse, thus my problems with it. I'm disgusted by the amount of people that use it to hurt others or otherwise cause problems or use it for trolling/mocking, etc. It will always, always be my biggest thing about the internet that gets on my nerves.
If you were a donut, what kind would you be?
Ahahahaha. I laughed at this, I admit. I'm actually not a big fan of donuts in general (shocking, I'm sure). I suppose that on the outside, I would look pretty plain, but then on the inside, I'd be filled with strawberry jam and sprinkles, and have a creamy center. Because that's where it all is, and it might not all go together that well, but it's that strange concoction/mixture that makes me. : )
What was your second video game console, and your favorite game on it?
I'm pretty sure this had to be the original Game Boy (though I believe the Super Nintendo is quite the close 3rd). I had the big gray block kind, and since I had two brothers who also got the same Game Boys, we all had to put name stickers on ours so we could keep track of whose was whose. As for favorite game... that's a really, really tough one. I loved my Game Boy to death. I think my absolute favorite games for it were Kirby's Dream Land and Pokemon Red (my little brother had Blue). I played both to death. Honorable mention goes to The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Kid Icarus, and GearWorks.
What game did you never get to play as a child, but really wanted to?
We didn't own a Sega Genesis ever. And I wasn't really big on Sega games, but... My older brother's friend, Jason, brought his Sega over sometimes and my little brother and I were only permitted to watch them play. I was completely fascinated by Shining Force II, and to this day, I'd love to play it. I believe watching them play that, when I was a little girl, was the roots of my later enjoyment of similar battle systems and tactical RPGs like that in Final Fantasy Tactics and Fire Emblem: Awakening. The battle from Shining Force II that stands the most in my mind, is the chessboard battle. Oddly enough, I looked all over for a Let's Play of the game and never found one.
Do you like cream cheese? Have you ever eaten it with French bread? A bagel?
I love cream cheese! I eat it sparingly, however, because heaven knows that's it's fattening. Hahaha. I've never had it on french bread, but I've had it on bagels a number of times. My preferred choice for it was Wheat Thins and Ritz Crackers. : )
Is there anything about the school system that you wish were changed?
Well, the school system is always changing and evolving, so this is difficult for me to answer. But there is one thing that stands out for me, if this counts: College should not cost as much money as it does. Attending a University to get the skills you NEED to survive and make a living can leave you in debt for pretty ten or twenty years of your life, depending on what you went to school for. Student loans are ridiculous and getting worse, and even in this day and age of the internet, many classes still require to buy a very expensive text book that you're only going to use for that one time taking that class. And it continually just seems to get worse and more and more expensive and unless you're incredibly lucky, you're going to go out into the world looking for a job in your specialty area and dig up a whole lot of nothing. This is the reason I never went to school for art. I couldn't believe the prices on tuition and the rest of it. And I knew that as an artist, I would have ended up struggling for work just to pay back those ridiculous amounts of money for loans. It wasn't a path I could take, unfortunately.
What's even more ridiculous, is that half the jobs that college graduates try to apply for, they tend to want someone "more experienced", whether you technically may have the skills or not. I really feel for all the college graduates struggling out there. It's terrible and it's only getting worse.
Note: I speak for the USA/America on this. I have no idea how the costs vary elsewhere in the world or if students there struggle similarly with the costs for "needed" skills to make an honest living.
Sorry to be so late on these! I wanted to make sure I could give ample time of my day to answer all of these at once. Thank you so much for the questions! I definitely tl;dr-ed, but that's my style. lol
