Backstage - OOC Forums

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Slaver-hounds aren't a type of dog? For more information see here.

Pages: 1 [2] 3

Author Topic: IG bios  (Read 9292 times)

Casiella

  • Demigod
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3723
  • Creation is so precious, and greed so destructive.
Re: IG bios
« Reply #15 on: 10 May 2010, 20:42 »

Oh God... that... oh god...
Logged

Esna Pitoojee

  • Keeper of the Harem
  • Demigod
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2095
Re: IG bios
« Reply #16 on: 11 May 2010, 10:46 »

As a non-immersive RPer - i.e., I'm not in a totally RP corp because I also crave the action being in a nullsec alliance gives - my bio is not filled with IC information about Esna (you can look at his blog for that). Rather, I've made it my job to try and make people smile with quotes from friends, corpmates, and random passers-by.

I'd like to comment on something else I see sometimes in bios, though: ASCII art.

Sometimes it's offensive (I've seen plenty of ASCII art of people's genitals) and some of it is old (Brofist, skull and crossboes) but occasionally I see something amusing and impressive. Example - when I flew in Providence, there was always one U'K guy who had an ASCII U'K fist in his bio. A few weeks after that appeared, a CVA guy copied it... with a big X through the middle of the fist.
Logged
I like the implications of Gallentians being punched in the face by walking up to a Minmatar as they so freely use another person's culture as a fad.

Kaldor Mintat

  • Egger
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 222
Re: IG bios
« Reply #17 on: 11 May 2010, 10:51 »

The nowadays short lenght possible in the charachter biopage would make me do my char bio via link (in fact have always meant to do that but never seem to get round to it).

On a sidenote: it was a sad, sad day when BackdoorBandit came back to eve recently and logged in and his bio got nerfed....
Logged

Lillith Blackheart

  • Pod Captain
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 533
Re: IG bios
« Reply #18 on: 11 May 2010, 13:19 »

I'd like to comment on something else I see sometimes in bios, though: ASCII art.

Best I've seen:

(''') о___о (''')
-\ '( о_о )' /
--\ \_Ш_/ /
---l . . . . l
--/ ./---\. \
(„„„)____(„„„)
I SURRENDER
DONT HURT ME


Best. Bio. Ever.

Edit: Amusing. In the post edit window the font is spaced correctly. In a finalized post, it is not. How about that?
Logged

Vieve

  • Guest
Re: IG bios
« Reply #19 on: 11 May 2010, 15:04 »

Sabi's and Celeste's are brief snapshots of what someone would presumably be able to find out from a public record ... because we all know how genuinely informative public records can be, even if they are up to date.
Logged

Vlad Cetes

  • Rick Rollermeister
  • Wetgraver
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 69
Re: IG bios
« Reply #20 on: 11 May 2010, 22:26 »

I'd like to comment on something else I see sometimes in bios, though: ASCII art.

Best I've seen:

(''') о___о (''')
-\ '( о_о )' /
--\ \_Ш_/ /
---l . . . . l
--/ ./---\. \
(„„„)____(„„„)
I SURRENDER
DONT HURT ME


Best. Bio. Ever.

Edit: Amusing. In the post edit window the font is spaced correctly. In a finalized post, it is not. How about that?

I'm so gonna copy that and add a French Flag next to it.
Logged

Misan

  • Shady Thukker & Ninja Admin
  • Pod Captain
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 612
    • Serious Thukking Business - Blog
Re: IG bios
« Reply #21 on: 11 May 2010, 22:45 »

For Misan I just put in the info that would probably show up in a dossier lookup that CONCORD would supply. It's fairly minimal, some of it only included because people would ask me roughly how tall she was etc.

Personally I like the quote filled bios but character limits means I can't fit them in as well. :(
Logged
EVE Blog and Project Status: on hold -- busy being Thukker-esque IRL.
Twitter
What I'm busy with, if you're curious.

lallara zhuul

  • Now with rainbows and butterflies.
  • Veteran
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1123
Re: IG bios
« Reply #22 on: 12 May 2010, 04:25 »

For some reason I find the file thing as pretentious as hell...

Your bio is organic and a representation of the character.
Logged

Be the Ultimate Ninja! Play Billy Vs. SNAKEMAN today!

Lillith Blackheart

  • Pod Captain
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 533
Re: IG bios
« Reply #23 on: 12 May 2010, 05:58 »

Quote
I'm so gonna copy that and add a French Flag next to it.

Amusingly the guy I saw it on was a Gallente.
Logged

Casiella

  • Demigod
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3723
  • Creation is so precious, and greed so destructive.
Re: IG bios
« Reply #24 on: 12 May 2010, 06:47 »

Your bio is organic and a representation of the character.

Could you elaborate on this? How would one have an "organic" bio?
Logged

Kaldor Mintat

  • Egger
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 222
Re: IG bios
« Reply #25 on: 12 May 2010, 07:37 »

Your bio is organic and a representation of the character.

Could you elaborate on this? How would one have an "organic" bio?

Think it means that the bio should evolve as the charachter does.
Logged

Casiella

  • Demigod
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3723
  • Creation is so precious, and greed so destructive.
Re: IG bios
« Reply #26 on: 12 May 2010, 07:52 »

That's not exclusive from any of the other methods people have described, though.
Logged

Senn Typhos

  • Pod Captain
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 944
  • Strong, Silent Type
Re: IG bios
« Reply #27 on: 12 May 2010, 09:25 »

It might just be a guttural reaction to my lengthy span of using cheap RP mods on other games to offer totally physical biographies, but when I do get around to a bio I think I'm going to be sticking with the public file version. The button itself is called "Show Info," I can't think of what else you'd receive other than CONCORD's information on the pilot.

That's not to say its the only way of doing things, but it makes the most sense to me. Along the lines of systems I'm irked by... I don't know why, but, the "blurb of overheard gossip" thing always tweaked my ear for some reason.
Logged
An important reminder for Placid RPers

One day they woke me up
So I could live forever
It's such a shame the same
Will never happen to you

Louella Dougans

  • \o/
  • Demigod
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2222
  • \o/
Re: IG bios
« Reply #28 on: 12 May 2010, 11:13 »

For some reason I find the file thing ...

[mod]Please express your opinion in a different way.[/mod]



Anyway, I've put the links to the news articles I was in, and a linky to mum's char, and some other stuff, that might be reasonably well known.
Logged
\o/

Rodj Blake

  • Egger
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 230
  • Amarr Victor Meldrew
Re: IG bios
« Reply #29 on: 13 May 2010, 05:43 »

I like bios which rhyme.

But writing them takes time.
Logged
Pages: 1 [2] 3