Popomundo - The TBL Punk Scene!

Post by **B. Stinson** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:06 pm

Oh yeah... does anybody have an up to date of TBL Name = Popomundo Names?

TBL name: B. Stinson --> Popomundo name: Rory Dunning

... since I'm not in either band, and probably wouldn't make the list of known names.

Post by **Minstrel** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:35 pm

Heh. April the kissing bandit blew in from the Uni to quickly get her flirt on with the guys from Never Dies today while you were out jammin

She also said "Hi. Nice to meet you. I'm April. Here's the key to my house." to the new guys

But, yeah we really should get that together it gets hella confusing. Once we get it all set I'll put a whole cast of characters list up in the KB for reference. I'll try to pull it together as I think I have it mostly...

Post by **Minstrel** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:56 pm

Okay I have the feelign I'm still missing someone not int he bands and of course Archi will have to get on the ball when he returns from his holiday... but here's the bands for sure and a list of who is teaching what. I'm not going to be switching to teach Showmanship until I learn punk from Palmer/B72.

Current Members Of Never Dies:

Tyrone Fulton | Electric Guitar/Lead Singer | joehelmer
Amos Herndon | Bass guitar/Backup vocalist | dannyhelmer
Kelly Pickens | InStaaled | Electric Guitar/Backup vocalist
Mark Butterfield | Keyboard Player/Backup vocalist | mark_htfc
Richard Urban | Drummer / Backup Vocalist | thecoolstuff
John Estrada | Shad666 (invited)

Current Members of The Dead Generation:

April Sherwood | Lead Singer | Minstrel
Kyle Guillory | Drummer | Oxenhoper
Palmer Haskins | Electric Guitar / Backup Vocalist |Bruins72
Cyril Walden | Electric Guitar | Calv
Jeb Hughes | Bass Guitar | E5150_ca

Also Playing:

NYC: Rory Dunning | B. Stinson
Barcelona: Aurelio Navarro | flea

Teaching:

Palmer Haskins - Punk Rock
April Sherwood - Basic Showmanship
Kelly Pickens - Basic Composing

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:09 pm

Thanks for the list. I was missing a few people.

One thing we should all keep in mind when we're writing songs is to not put an instrument as "dominant" in a song if we don't have a member of the band that plays that instrument. I'm thinking that would bring down the performance when it's played live. Once we've built up our skills we can write songs to specifically take advantage of our skills. For example, if Tyrone Fulton ends up learning the basic string instrument skill and the electric guitar skill and has 5 stars in each, Never Dies should make sure their new songs feature "dominant electric guitar".

Post by **B. Stinson** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:26 pm

Speaking of that instrument selection stuff for your songs... does anyone know how exactly that works in the game?

Because at first I was wondering how I, as a solo artist, could use a whole band of instruments in my songs when I'm only one guy... then I thought about the fact that all real solo artist have friends or "extras" who fill-in the other instrument spots. Does the game work this way, or does it punish your peformances for using more instruments than your artist/band has?

Post by **joehelmer** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:30 pm

B. Stinson wrote:Speaking of that instrument selection stuff for your songs... does anyone know how exactly that works in the game?

Because at first I was wondering how I, as a solo artist, could use a whole band of instruments in my songs when I'm only one guy... then I thought about the fact that all real solo artist have friends or "extras" who fill-in the other instrument spots. Does the game work this way, or does it punish your peformances for using more instruments than your artist/band has?

You should join one of our bands of course.

Post by **B. Stinson** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:23 pm

I would, but I hate punk rock with an extreme passion... and even though the music itself isn't present in the game - my style of instrument usage, lyrical motivation, song titles, and especially art, doesn't come close to something that would fit a punk band.

Plus, I'm not much of a team player when it comes to online games... I like playing things my way, and on my own time

Post by **Minstrel** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:23 am

You can play any songs no matter what they are written for or what skills/instuments you have. We're doing punk covers of Reggae songs and Metal songs, we're just playing it in our style which is the important thing. So no matter what the song was written to include you do your version of it, focus on lead vocals and whatever genre skills you'd need first I'd guess.

flea · Post by **flea** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:09 am

Hey guys,

This is really fun!!!

I will got some money and take a plane to NY, like that I can be closer to u guys...and I hope that helps me being a real rock star

Will say something as soon as I arrive at JFK airport, lol!!!

Post by **B. Stinson** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:45 am

Maybe I'll see you when you get here... I work as a security guard at JFK.

... so don't try anything tricky, or I'll take you down, Charlie Brown.

Post by **Minstrel** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:07 pm

You can always say he looks suspicious and have him searched

To update you guys on the jam session thing; I appear to have been right it's in the neighborhood of 35% progress total that you can gain from each jam, so the less songs you select the more progress will be made on each. We set our jam yesterday to three songs and got about 13% on each, we'd gotten about 8-9% on four songs in previous jams.

It appears you don't get specific update text when you are learning, but you'll see the Master gets 'Spent the day teaching the nooble art of Punk Rock' they say you can learn the skill at any time but usually it is 6-8 updates. I've been pumping up my intelligence rating to hopefully make my teaching go a bit faster than when I was all "Math is hard!" before

Anyone wanting to learn Punk Rock should get to a relationship with Palmer where you can ask to be his apprentice and then hang out at NYU with us and select to follow him so you don't miss any updates.

To revist the shudder inducing topic of the week April doesn't do quickies or sex out on the sidewalk somewhere

So unless you want a military boot where the sun don't shine don't do it. The whole thing is kind of a moot point as benefecial to relationships goes though, because like singing or joke telling there is actually a sex skill and without it Aprill will probably just laugh at you. Possibly the next time she's hanging out songwriting she could use the distraction though.

(See how much less revolting that is in third person??)

Post by **inSTAALed** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:11 pm

Minstrel wrote:(See how much less revolting that is in third person??)

Less revolting, perhaps, but less comical for sure.

I served my time and I'm back

thecoolstuff · Post by **thecoolstuff** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:43 am

how do i start a love life? It says my character's love life is 'boring'...

Post by **Minstrel** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:28 am

thecoolstuff wrote:how do i start a love life? It says my character's love life is 'boring'...

Well since yer new to town there's not much you can do but keep talking to people and buying random girls drinks in Central Park until you build up enough of a relationship with them to where you start getting hug and kiss interactions made available to you...

inSTAALed wrote:
Minstrel wrote:(See how much less revolting that is in third person??)
Less revolting, perhaps, but less comical for sure.

I think you're the only person who finds it comical in any way shape or form

Post by **inSTAALed** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:39 am

Minstrel wrote:
inSTAALed wrote:
Minstrel wrote:(See how much less revolting that is in third person??)
Less revolting, perhaps, but less comical for sure.
I think you're the only person who finds it comical in any way shape or form

That was yet another joke.

<---my joke face

I believe that there are two emotes from hfboards that I could really use here. (biglaugh and ssst)

Post by **B. Stinson** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:43 am

Is any of that 'intimacy' stuff important for your character? 'Cause I've pretty much ignored all that(since my guy hasn't complained about it yet), and am focusing on making music and money.

Post by **inSTAALed** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:47 am

Speaking of money, I make $1000 a week now!

I quit my deadbeat job being a clerk at a car dealership and became a clerk at a hotel!

An $800 pay increase!

Post by **Minstrel** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:53 am

I couldn't get any of the sales jobs that were out there for like a grand so I ended up with a cleaner job at the bank for $600 as it was either that or go back to another $360 bar job.

I'll see if next week I can move up to one of them since you have to work for a week at a job before quitting. I eventually want to learn Art & Design I think it is so that I can become a tatoo artist. Free ink for everyone!!!

flea · Post by **flea** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:06 am

B. Stinson wrote:Maybe I'll see you when you get here... I work as a security guard at JFK.

... so don't try anything tricky, or I'll take you down, Charlie Brown.

Dont worry, I will pack my Heroin and my Cocaine in the ass....as it is a disgusting place I guess nobody dares to look there

Nahh, now seriously.....I have an issue with the money!!!

Well, I know that the payments are fridays, and yes, the weekloan was there, but when I checked back on saturday it suddenly dissapeared!!!!

I checked in the diary to look if I had buyed something, but nothing....also I still live in mamas house, so no expense there!!!

Did I miss something???

Greets

Post by **inSTAALed** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:12 am

Flea, just hitchhike your way over here.

It's free...

Post by **B. Stinson** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:14 am

Wow, where do you guys get these big jobs? I have been looking through the papers for the last few days, but the only big jobs are for big stuff like a CEO and stuff.

Also, can wages be lowered by the people who run the place you're at? I'd hate to get lured into a huge wage for a low job, and then have the boss jack my wage down to a 'normal' one.

Post by **inSTAALed** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:16 am

Work at the place I work at.

Last time I checked there was another clerk job available!

flea · Post by **flea** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:20 am

inSTAALed wrote:Flea, just hitchhike your way over here.

It's free...

That would be nice, but I just checked out and I only can do that to go to Madrid, Paris and Rome (if I understood the meaning hitchhike, of course, lol)....the airplane ticke from Barcelona to NY is 540$, so I guess I have to work two weeks, but then I will come and see u guys

....that if my money doesnt dissapear again!!!! I will put it into my bankaccount next friday!!!

Post by **inSTAALed** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:27 am

All you have to do is wait at the route to the place you want to go and after a couple of updates you will end up there.

Slowly make your way here!

flea · Post by **flea** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:29 am

inSTAALed wrote:All you have to do is wait at the route to the place you want to go and after a couple of updates you will end up there.

Slowly make your way here!

Well, slowly but sure I will end up in NY for sure