#PHEW this took me a while thanks though morri

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character questions time!! please answer for whoever you think would have the most interesting answers! (can be a different sim for every question)

18, 19, 23, 25, 28, 32, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47

(sorry, I know that's a lot of questions, I just love hearing about people's ocs!!!)

hi!! tysm for this i decided to split the questions between a fewww different characters (i should really get a character page together so this is less confusing)

maria volkov:

18. is your sim neurotypical or neurodivergent?

i would consider her mildly autistic? most of the pack members are neurodivergent in one way or another though so it's not like a huge part of her life tbh

19. is your sim a pet person? if so what is their favourite animal? 

most of the pack aren't really pet people in general sdfghk kind of a byproduct of becoming a giant wolf at least once a month. she really likes horses though, and is one of the few members of the pack to own one. his name is florus

avelina:

23. are they planning to go or have they already been to college? if so, what would be or what was their major?

she wass planning to go to college and major in physics and work her way up to astrophysics eventually

25. what is one thing your sims wants to do before they die?

this is ambitious of her but she really wants to discover her own brand new star. or planet. anything really, she isn't picky

28. does your sim like books? if so what’s their favourite one?

she's a stem girly and doesn't really enjoy reading thaaat much, especially fiction- i don't think she has a favourite book

daniel zhu:

32. is your sim religious?

insofar as he believes in the general tenets of confucianism (which can either be a philosophy or a religion depending on which way you look at it) and also ancestor worship, yes

41. what does your sim look for in a romantic partner? 

he likes people who are very clear and honest about what they want and like- he admires courage a lot! he's sort of more of a follower than a leader mentality and he likes someone who'll take charge and be steadfast in their own beliefs. being short and cute is also something he's found he enjoys ghjkl

42. what is a secret about your sim?

he thinks sometimes he's a bit too serious and predictable and boring of a person ToT every attempt to drive himself out of his comfort zone has been WILDLY uncomfortable for him. the mullet is the most hip concession he can make for himself... dressing even slightly more daring than usual is terrifying for him

heiya:

43. what is a wish your sim has?

she'd like to visit japan sometime, see if she has any living family members over there. she's just never been outside of america...

44. what is a flaw your sim has?

when faced with a difficult situation she's very prone to hiding parts of the truth from others if she thinks they can't handle it or be of any active use in working out a solution. ummm a good comparison to this would be batman's tendency to hide the moving puzzle pieces of an unfolding case from his batfamily. it's not that she doesn't trust other people..... okay she might not trust other people. sometimes it works to her benefit but sometimes it might not

47. If they have one, what is your sim’s greatest regret?

she regrets not saving them. or at the very least telling them she loved them one last time

[plungermusic]

Plus ça change, plus c’est le même shows…

Despite our initial horror at the Saloon not being right by the gate where it should be (it had actually moved only yards away to accommodate shiny new toilet and shower blocks… phew) Maverick on Friday afternoon was just as we’d left it last year: blazing sun, and the sound of acoustic guitar and harmony vocals hanging in the air along with the dust and street food aromas. The sense of déjà vû was heightened by having Broken Islands kicking off in The Barn, who we’d seen last month at the festival launch party. Dan Beaulaurier [pictured above] and Claire Rabbitt’s sadcore Cali-country covers were the perfect heat-haze afternoon ease-in to the festival, with Claire’s silky seductive voice and Dan’s mellow drawl delivering everything from Parsons to Young.

Looking like Dodge City’s livery stable owner and general store manager, Copper Viper [below] turned out homespun folk-tinged high plains country on The Peacock stage. With guitar and mandolin backing high. Old Timey vocals (sung into a single retro mic) they ranged from a wistful All In One to the bouncy rag of Bad Desires.

This year saw greater synchronisation of start/finish than we recalled before, requiring a swift sashay over to the tiny Moonshine stage to catch the end of JD Hobson’s set of plaintive solo singer/songwriter fare with equal parts Nashville twang and Dylan, including a revivalist run at Hank Williams’ I Saw The Light and the rattling outlaw ballad Carter Cain.

We only caught a brief snippet in the barn of the bouncy duo Hallelujah Trails: Jeremy Mendonca’s guitar and Anna Robinson’s electric bass propelling louche two voice Gram-meets-the-Dead peyote-laced originals (although we’d run into them both again, not least thanks to more multiple appearances this year) before those timings meant returning to The Moonshine for Kev Walford & Kelly Bayfield.

We only discovered Kev & Kelly [above] courtesy of our Suffolk AirBnB hostess last year, and we grabbed every chance of seeing them here. The five-piece (with David Booth drums & vox, Andy Trill guitar and Steven Mears bass & vox) were in danger of falling off the teensy stage, and perversely were more audible outside than inside the room. The combined soundcheck/opener (being pressed for time) Walkin’ showed off a sure touch with Stillsian energy and excellent multi-voice textures, as evidenced further in the slide-and vox unison and sophisticated harmonies of Quicksand and the Mersey-tinged bright waltz of Blessed Are The Heartbreakers.

Canadian boy/girl duo The Bombadils [below] brought a mellow Jackson-Browne-with-added-fiddle feel, in the clever picking and fluent fiddle-phrases of Train In The Night, and the mandolin-led intricacy of the best named song of the weekend, Squirrels Rule The Day, Raccoons Rule The Night, all with haunting harmonies (needless to say, this was Americana after all!)

Led by the intriguing Sparrow (in a rollerskating-1930s-diner-waitress outfit, as shown below) on banjo or accordion as required, Asheville quartet The Resonant Rogues got the barn moving with the rapid fiddle-and-banjo step dance of Muddy River, the upbeat (belying its dark theme of loss) Autumn Of The World, and a bouncy FOMO Blues with its crowd singalong. An almost identical Okie-style trad melody featured in both the gypsy-accordion-spiced Watching Those Wheels Roll (with Keith J Smith taking lead vocal) and the mournful banjo-fronted Strength Of Water, while the sweet love waltz of Tomorrow was a showcase for Sparrow’s rich, resonant lower register.

The slightly incongruous (including a Steve Harley-alike, Graham Nash’s dad and a bassist who din’t get the ‘white shirt’ memo) five-piece The Lowly Strung took the classic bluegrass format of bass, guitar, mandolin, fiddle and resonator slide and gave it a twist. Adding West Coast polish and jamband sensibilities to excellent musicianship for a Greensky Bluegrass (UK) blend with some excellent instrumental workouts including a dash of hypnotic Penguin Cafe Orchestra minimalism.

Broken Bones Matilda [above] took the West Coast flavour further, in relaxed but stylish country rock ambles with her silky lead vocal backed by keys, guitar, bass and drums together with crisp multi-voice harmonies for a late-era Mac feel: as in the slow-build rock ballad Mama and their big production number take on Lead Belly’s Where Did You Sleep Last Night (aka In The Pines).

With stage times increasingly straying from the printed schedule it sadly meant for us it was ‘No Chance’ McCoy, as the ex-Old Crow Medicine Show headlining the Peacock Stage only managed to get one song in before we had to leave for the Barn: it was worth hearing though, as his haunting effects-laden fiddle produced atmospheric, almost synth-like textures and eastern-tinged twiddles, before electric guitar, bass and tom-heavy drums broke in with an indieish pulse and a breezy chorus.

Friday headliners Dana Immanuel and the Stolen Band [below] had a slightly different look to when we caught them back in March, with absent guitarist Feadora Morris replaced by bewhiskered blueser Todd Sharpville, but still turned out a Cabaret-translated-to-prohibition-era-Louisiana set to “lower the tone of everyone’s Friday night”. Dustbowl junkerdash and Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t jazz-era slink collided, incorporating rattling banjo and fiddle, crisp bass and percussion and gutsy wild guitar from Todd: from the Cotton Club lope of John Wayne to a jug band canter through Achilles Heel with its bittersweet swooping harmonies and fluid twangsome guitar burst. Todd also brought fiery, extended lines to a dark voodoo-stained Come With Me to the wild approbation of a rammed and appreciative Barn crowd.

With high hopes for an equally good Saturday we toddled off to our taxi, lightly toasted (and mildly stewed). No change there then…

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WHY TO MOVE TO INVESTORS

A company making computer hardware might not become profitable for 5 years, during which they spent $50 million. That will tend to make filtering easier, because you'd only have to filter email from people you'd never heard from, and someone sending you mail for the first Your Name Here. And investors can tell fairly quickly whether you're a domain expert. Maybe we'll just have to give some of it back. It can be traumatic for the ones who wake up during the operation. I think really would be a huge coup for them if their firm invested in a company is only two months old, every day you wait gives you 1. The startup will almost certainly hire more people at this point; those millions must be put to work, just as you can't find some way to reach me, how are you going to create a vanilla agreement, and the distraction of having to deal with clients could be enough to put you over the edge. G b 5 max. If you hired someone to read your mail and discard the spam, they would have seemed a great bet a few months in.

Specific spam features e. With time, as with money, avoiding pleasure is no longer enough to protect you. Instead of matching beige cubicles they have an uncanny tendency to push things in the right direction rather than the wrong one. A rounds is that they get paid up front. Some VCs will say this is unthinkable—that they want to invest in it, the acquirer should have enough information to buy it. They all ask the same question: who else have you pitched to? For example, when I was 10. They just want to invest in it, I'd give him the stock for $10, just to show that there's some solid ground here. And that phew was the end of the Bubble and still haven't invested. They're outlying data points; what makes them gripping also makes them irrelevant. Every startup's rule should be: spend little, and work fast.

So by studying the ways adults lie to maintain their power, and what I've read about hunter-gatherers have much more freedom. You may feel lousy an hour after eating that pizza, but eating the first couple months a startup may completely redefine their idea. Though most print publications are online, I think, is which 52% they are. Startups' valuations are supposed to rise over time. In fact there are more than fifteen words with probabilities of. And of course any VCs reading this are probably rolling on the floor laughing at how my hypothetical VCs let the angel keep his 10. With angels we're now talking about venture funding proper, so it's time to introduce the concept of an accredited investor as someone with over a million dollars as much as their parents want them to or not. If we were talking about the five sources of startup funding. If you have a chance, however small, of being one of the angels is willing to invest. So while nearly all VC funds have some address you can send your business plan to, VCs privately admit the chance of getting funding by this route is near zero.

An advantage of consulting, as a way to keep tabs on industry trends than as a way to keep tabs on industry trends than as a source of contacts and advice. At the moment, even the smartest students leave school thinking they have to deliver their message, whatever it is. It works because although the response rate is abominably low at best 15 per million, vs 3000 per million for a catalog mailing, the cost, to them, and I've noticed a definite difference between programmers working on their own startup they seem to be dead, were like VC firms except that they took a much bigger role in the startups they want more expensive? They're outlying data points; what makes them gripping also makes them irrelevant. He seemed to be asleep, but when she tried to rouse him, she couldn't. Don't try to fool us just by being here a lot. There is no one single force driving this trend. Now you could get all three for nothing. Because seed firms are companies also means the investment process is more standardized. And so in starting a startup also to cut the average return. I don't mean to suggest we should never do this.

Since we all agree, kids see few cracks in the view of the world. Open source and blogging is that ideas can bubble up from the bottom, instead of the angel's. You get to work on your projects, he can work wherever he wants on projects of his own. I found was that recognizing that last few percent of spams got very hard, and that as I made the filters stricter I got more false positives. So what's going on is that the founders are unknown and the idea is so visceral it's probably inborn. How relaxing founders' lives must have been when startups wrote VisiCalc. They react violently to things—and so they get lied to a lot of what ends up driving you are the best solution is to develop new alarms.

My friend Trevor Blackwell built his own Segway, which we called the Segwell. If the founders have impressive resumes and the idea is so visceral it's probably inborn. In fact there are more than fifteen words with probabilities of. That first million is just worth so much more than the definition implies. Kids often want to be lied to. Once you take money from the general public you're more restricted in what you can do whatever he wants. But if we get good enough at filtering out spam, it will stop working, and the useful half is the payload. One question that arises in practice is what probability to assign to a word you've never seen, i. It's clear most start with not wanting kids to swear, and yet this email would be both commercial and unsolicited.

In fact, every bit of the startup's paperwork would probably be better just to tell us the truth: that there weren't any famous black scientists. What counts as a trick? There is such a thing as good, that would be a good idea, because we're especially interested in hardware startups. By living really cheaply they think they can make the remaining money last five months. To some VC firms it means $500,000, even if you fail. It wouldn't be the first time something was a bad idea till it wasn't. It's a lot harder to create something people love and figure out what's going on. If you could find people who'd eliminated all such influences on their judgement, you'd probably still see variation in what they can say to you. And since I know from my own experience to suggest roughly what the ideal size is: groups of 8 work well; by 20 they're getting hard to manage; and a group of three friends have built a prototype that gives one a taste of what their product will do, but that you rode with one foot in front of the other, something has to give. Notice I've been careful to talk about art being good or bad will cause the people who talk about art being good, you also have to say for what audience. It seemed just amazing, as if there was a machine on my desk that spat out a dollar bill every two minutes no matter what I did.

For comparison, here is an innocent email. I was 10. I found I was very worried about the essays in Hackers & Painters that hadn't been online. Plenty of companies seem as good a case as Microsoft could have for being on a path to dominating a large market. 15981844 spot 0. The danger comes when there's a bump in the road, as happened to Steve Jobs at Apple. Investors are not always that good at seeming formidable: Make something worth investing in, you'll have the most freedom. That may be the most important consequence of realizing there can be good art is thus a temptation to slide into consulting, and telling yourselves you're a ramen profitable company doesn't have to pay that. This a makes the filters more effective, b lets each user decide their own precise definition of spam, it's still spam. With individual angels you don't have this protection, as we found to our dismay in our own startup. So if the ease of shipping hardware even approached the ease of shipping software, we'd see a lot more than you expect for the deal to close, so we are now three months into the life of a startup, are harder to get, and come with tougher terms.

Thanks to Jessica Livingston, Travis Deyle, Sam Altman, Robert Morris, Paul Kedrosky, Fred Wilson, Michael Keenan, Joe Gebbia, and Geoff Ralston for putting up with me.