Person of Little Interest

Hey, I was just wondering if someone could give me a quick translation of something someone said in a stream. Link here: http://www.twitch.tv/torbenslein/b/482166117

Just skip ahead to 14:07, and I'd like to know what was said up until about 14:20-ish. If you can/are willing to help me, thanks!

Of course, this would only be a problem if it were to be published (not likely in the first place), but if I took someone's username and used it without permission, is this theft of personal property? Does it infringe on any copyrights, or is it perfectly fine, because it's just an online username?

Is it virtually the same as creating a character who has the same name as someone in real life?

I know this may sound a little strange, but I am purposely misspelling some things and using improper grammar in my novel, and it's rather annoying when I'm writing and all I'm seeing is a bunch of red and green squiggly lines under everything. Also, it's been autocorrecting some words.

In general, I guess I'd just like a way for Microsoft Word to stop telling me I'm doing things wrong when I know very well what I'm doing.

Please tell me there's a way to turn this off?

Let's say, for example, I was inspired by Harry Potter and I wanted to write a story about a wizard who goes to a magical school and has adventures with friends. Harry Potter surely isn't the only story ever written that uses these basic elements, but, even if I wrote my story with a completely different plot, including a different magic system, school setup, and characters that were nothing like those in Harry Potter, would this still be enough for people to scream plagiarism?

Is it perfectly okay to use this sort of inspiration, or does that inspiration become useless because other people will accuse your story of being a rip-off? I mean, ideas have to come from somewhere--they don't fall out of the sky, right?

And at what point does the attempt to be original become cliche?

As a reader, have you ever encountered books where a character swore excessively or said things that personally offended you? Did you feel it was necessary or added believability to the character/story at all, or could it have been completely left out?

As a writer, when faced with creating characters, would you ever be willing to make a profane character, even at the risk of offending readers?

I know there's an art to creating villains that walk that thin line of Love-To-Hate and Hate-To-Love, but I'm interested in finding what some would call "the perfect balance." What are some traits that you think a character must have as an evil antagonist? And, as far as motives go, what is an ideal motive for malicious villainy?

BQ: Share the villain from your story. Don't be shy.

BQ2: Do you ever want the bad guy to win?

In other words, what are the pros and cons of anti-feminism?

You know, like zombie western or sci-fi horror comedy? What're some absolutely ridiculous or unique book genre combinations you can come up with?

I have a habit of ignoring people, especially those who are important to me. They will call me on my cell phone, and nine times out of ten, I will let it ring or simply shut off my phone altogether, annoyed. People will send me e-mails, and I will not respond. I will go offline on Facebook chat or MSN and I will lurk.

I don't know why I do this, especially since these are people I care about and WANT to talk to. I just have this great and terrible urge to hide away from them. Is there any explanation for this? I know it frustrates my closest friends and family, and worries them as well.

I am not depressed (at least, I don't FEEL depressed; I actually feel fairly content) but I constantly feel as if I must be alone, and I know it is putting a strain on many of my relationships. Why do I ignore them? And is this "normal" behavior, or is it a scarily extreme form of introversion that will only get worse over time?

Society is conditioned to believe that it's red, but what do you think? Is red an accurate color to represent love?

If somebody could just explain this whole thing, that'd be great. Thanks.

My friend seems to think that if a couple has things in common, they can't work at all. Opinions?

I do not consider myself, by any great lengths, a poet, but I do dabble in poetry. I recently edited this piece and would like some honest opinions on it. Advice on how to improve would be much appreciated as well. Thanks. :]

Cryptomnesia

I sit here in the sound garden, dividing joy between the muses.

I've been counting crows again;

And I will burn every last one with this arcade fire.

This steady diet of iron and wine

gave birth to cold war kids with bright eyes and radio heads.

After a blur of ten years, eleven fingers, and

one-hundred-and-eighty-two blinks,

I have faith no more in these stone age queens

who sit as tall as lions in their silver chairs;

not with gin blossoms like that sprouting up along the neutral milk hotel.

I suppose the dead are grateful for the flowers,

but there is no doubt my thirteen senses scramble for acceptance.

Stones will roll along with these talking heads.

More power to the cats who survive three dog nights

and all those indigo girls who don't fall for cheap tricks.

There is a fire inside these wolves from the sea,

but there is no air supply left for their aqualung nirvana.

These roots will always be rusted.

Three months ago, I lost my class ring at the airport in Illinois. While I was visiting my dad there in the hospital, he died, so a lost class ring naturally became the least of my worries. I completely forgot about my ring until today, when I checked my Facebook page (which I only reactivated after months of not having, because my friends were complaining about not having any way to reach me) and I found the strangest thing in my message box: Some guy I've never met telling me my class ring is up for grabs on an Illinois Government Auction site.

I know, in the grand scheme of things, this isn't exactly a mind-blowing story, but I'm just wondering if all of this is a very weird, cool coincidence or if it is meant to be, some kind of message. You see, there are also four other rings being auctioned off with my own. I keep getting this nagging feeling like I'm suppose to buy them and find the owners, if they haven't been notified already. (Stupid, right?)

Am I looking for meaning behind just a really crazy random happenstance? Or does everything happen for a reason? A little insight, please?

Okay. So my webcam works fine on things like Skype and Chatroulette and it will take pictures on Facebook, but when I go into the actual webcam program, I get a "Could not run graph" box and it won't let me take pictures.

The webcam is built into my laptop, and there's no CD that came with my laptop or anything for the program. All my drives are up to date, and I'm running Windows 7.

Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?

Is "he said, she said" really divine? Or is it just annoying?

If an entire book uses just "said," is that the sign of a bad or lazy writer? If a book hardly uses "said" at all, are they a more creative and better writer?

Opinions, please. All answers are appreciated. :]

I once heard some saying about how if you die in your dream then you die in real life, but, obviously, I'm still alive. Is it normal to die in your dream? And what does it mean?

It's something I'd seriously like to hear. At least once. Are there any bands that experiment with this kind of sound?

Thanks.

I'll use The Road by Cormac McCarthy as an example: The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, giving little backstory as to how it got so bleak and dismal and end-of-the-worldy. You never really find out what caused it to be like that in the first place, but it's a huge part of the story, because it's during the time that everything takes place.

When you, as a reader, don't get complete answers or have to guess based on clues about what happened in a story, does that bother you?