Moving Forward

Get it?
Cuz PTE is a train?
And trains move forw-

ok I'll stop.

heheheheheh

In real news, You may notice a new tab. Gone are the days when I switch everything on PTE like musical chairs. I realize that a stable website tends to tell its visitors what it's doing instead of rearranging everything every 5 minutes leading to a confusing constant mess.

Hey it only took 5 years but I'M LEARNING!

So this new tab is the "Games" tab, which I know is real original.
Abbridged version is I've realized that uploading my work to Newgrounds is good for critiquing and getting known, however because of wanting to make small stuff that takes a day as opposed to big stuff that takes half a year, the lack of game length makes it hard to get much judgement on Newgrounds aside from "Make it longer" and "make it suck less" (and "Pjs stage is impossible").
That had created a conundrum as I want to make stuff and show it to people but I don't wanna have a billion low rated little games on my account.

The Solution? PTEr's get to see what sort of crazy little games I come up with! Each new one will be mentioned in a post (Like today for example, Which RO character has been bumped off. Now you can check out the latest!!: "PTE'D-HER-WAT")
I'll try to keep my games relative to PTE to make it make more sense as an addition to PTE. However I won't make any guarantees that every game will be.
I will guarentee however that no games will be "Jenny's Show Tier", in that I will try to make games that could be showed to a 5 year old without scarring them for life.
So E rated games.

 I'm also contemplating doing some sort of PTE Affiliations type thing. I was originally thinking of doing a free advert type thing, but I wonder if it'd be more beneficial for whoever gets involved to have their name posted on a wall of affiliates as opposed to being a 1 in x shot of showing up. (Plus advert style has the stigma of being an advert, so random visitors would be less likely to click on it.) (I also am uncertain how Blogger would feel about me making my own version of advertising. Granted it would be free for both parties, but I'd still probably find a boundary...)

I am looking for opinions, please rip apart my silly ideas. (Only If you wanna though...)

All That Jazz

Reading this recently updated comment section reminds us all about the high quality of standard PTE strives for.

So very recently my uni held a club sign-up day, and after too many cheesy SOL animes and bad decisions I got the idea to try joining some.
And All.
That.
Jazz.
So I joined just two clubs. One was called the 'Rock and Heavier Society', which is a club dedicated to the enjoyment and spread of Rock and Heavy Metal. No formal meetings, just mostly a subscription to tell me about rock show venues as far as I know. Seems pretty cool, I think.
And then I joined the Improv club.
Now this is not some lead up to presenting an atrocious experience. But it is a lead up to something worth writing an entire PTE post about, so it's clearly something.
And All.
That.
Jazz.
If you're wondering why I keep making the Chicago joke, it's in reference to my high school days, when I once acted in the play Chicago. It went...decent enough...but that's moot to this post.
Why I post about it is because my first impression was it was surpringly massive. Lots of people showed up and it was kind of a confusing mess. Argueably though, it was the first meet post sign up so there is an expected influx of casuals.
The thing that I'm caught on is, I joined the club to try to get better at thinking fast on the spot and being witty. Figuring half of that is the point of improv, this seemed like a legit plan.
However I'm finding it more like a high school drama class with no teacher.
I've had my 3 year fill of the fun of high school drama class, and I'm not sure if spending two hours every week reliving the past is exactly what I want to be doing.
I'm vowing (and typing it here on PTE so I don't forget...) to give the club at least another two goes. Improv and drama could be just not suited for me. (Film certainly was, though ignore the fact that what I'm doing right now goes hand in hand with it k) I just found I enjoyed the club very minimally.
I don't want to ruin connections either because the guy who runs the club is also in my program and he's really nice but
All. That. Jazz.

So we'll see what happens. This may not be the last time you hear about the Improv Club.

Also I would have the times for my radio show but someone wants to switch spots with me on it and is being super slow about it and its driving me nuts and I'm probably just gonna talk to the director myself because FTS and yeah so RFR times coming soon k
And All. That. Jazz.

New Character?

After a challenge to create a character with a hat, a challenge similar to one leading to a certain other character, I've come up with this working design.

I've decided to try to include you, The PTErs, in on the character creation. If interested, I'm looking for some feedback.

1.Based on this drawing, what name(s) would you suggest for this character?
2. What logo's would you have for his Hat and/or T-shirt, if any? (Can't use copyrighted logos, so no coca colas...sorry)
3.What colours would you change?

Answer in the comments below if you're interested, else (or also) enjoy your tri-daily image dose:

5 YEARS 5 MANY

PTE TURNS 5 TODAY

How have we made it this far also can I delete PTE yet

No but seriously. I'm proud. Surprised, confused, questioning, contemplating, calculating, asking scientists, surprised again, befuddled, but proud.

Project: Rebirth

To further Celebrate PTE's milestone, I'm revealing exciting news. First and foremost, I'm (technically) bringing back and (essentially) completing the Radio Project. As I've mentioned, I've been given a radio show to run for the duration of my semester. I've decided to name it Radio Free Riccy, Ala flesh the PTE-born idea into an actual show. 

For more details on it, check the NOW RETURNED Radio Page. All updates on that project will be posted there, with regular posts hinting when updating has occured.

As per my previous post, the Tayday Shennanigans page has been deleted.

All other PTE pages have also been edited to commemorate.

Quick Update on TayDay Shennanigans

After checking, it would appear that more content was added to the game, so now Tino and Tim would be more accurate. Since this now invalidates the shenanigans page, (and its also like 4 months old...) The Shennanigans page will be removed soon. How soon? Continue checking PTE to find out...

or don't, choice is yours really.

Reprieve

The snow has melted away, and it appears things will remain normal to season for at least the next two weeks. The tree damage throughout the city was extensive, however no trees around my house broke. (Luck? In my brutal week? It's more likely than you think!)
As per the accident, I've only got a pulled back muscle, so I'm quite lucky. The van's back bumper however, needs replacement. (Extent of damage still unknown. My mom also is in worse shape and needs more time to heal.)

I've been a bit of a nervous wreck since starting school. My presumptions are because so much is happening so fast, because this school is new, because different city (Still applicable), and because I have no idea what to expect. (No matter how much I know, every day continues to be a surprise.)
I'm getting better now, now that I've had all my classes at least once. That all said, my friend-making skills remain as bad as they've always been (See: Initiators and reciprocators. AKA Post of the Year 2014. FFS...)
Regardless, I try to remain as optimistic as I can. I've found myself digging through my music, trying to get things organized for the time slot. I'm so excited about it that I'm doing moot things for it. I don't even know the specifics yet, however I consider it the re-ignition of the radio project, therefore I think it's fair to be so excited.

I'll admit this post is all over the place. Just re-reading it I can see it's terribly woven together.I should learn to organize my ideas better, haha.

...Or not write posts when excited. But screw that, PTE IS ALL ABOUT QUALITY!

-insert image of a face reposted somewhere from the internet here-

Extremely Unlucky

So I was in a minor car accident yesterday.

Also there's been 2 blizzards since Monday.

Also Also Trees have been falling apart due to weight from snow on their (green) leaves.

The Real DJ Riccy

It's fair to say that up until this point, the idea of me being a DJ was nothing more than an artist name for my digital music. I've always like the ring of the DJ title, and surprising to me was the fact that "DJ Riccy" did not seem to be a taken or used name. (After googling it, it seems the closest was a "DJ Ricci")

The reason I bring this up is beginning in October (Technically sooner, but the sooner stuff will be practice...) I will be assigned a DJ shift. It will be a 2 hour slot, and I will have choice over the music played. (I've been told that anyway, we'll see what plays out, all pun intended.) The time slot I get will be the one I have for at least the entire semester (~3 months).
If they give me a Friday night shift, FNWER may return.

I also hope to play some of the music I've made, as it technically fits their criteria, plus with it being owned by me, absolutely zero copyright issues. (Though I dunno about listening to it for 2 hours...I'll need real music for that, haha.)

SPORTS (The First Day)

Today was my first day of broadcasting classes. Both classes were essentially introductions of people in each class. The impression I got is that most people in both classes were big into sports or acting.

Abridged version is I feel like a weirdo among them so far, figuring I'm not super big into sports (not the activities, I mean the teams and NFL and that), and I've always been pretty mediocre at drama type stuff due to my shyness.
(Remember The Initiators and Reciprocators Post? Yeah. That's working extremely against me too.)

I can't say they've gone badly, but I'm not super optimistic about how things are going to turn out. I feel like I have little in common with many classmates, and that that will work against me very fast.

The good news is I'm not as nervous anymore! Just...fish out of water.

Reminiscence

PTE turns a whopping 5 years old this month! The banner I whipped up contains random posts from 2009, as well as the Year in Reviews that exist up to this point. It was interesting to go through old posts and see how my thinking, my vocabulary, even the way I type has all changed.

I remember I had colourized text in my first posts in hopes to make my posts more interesting than Snowfire's. That of course ended up backfiring as I kept messing with PTE's look, making the text's readability fluctuate. As well, I used to use a lot of emoticon text like ':D' and 'T_T'. I stopped using them as images (to an extent) took their place.

On to more modern times, I've fixed the PTE test your luck again. (It seemed stuck on Endless 8....) I've updated the What is PTE page a bit, and am contemplating some other updates.

There may be more posts this month reminiscing on PTE's changes. That said, with school starting in 3 days, school will likely take more of the spotlight. I can't say for certain what will happen.
But I can guarantee more posts soon.

Before you ask, yes I am excited about school. And nervous. Very nervous.