P A R A D I S E I N T E R V I E W
#OM~!: hello paradise! hope you've been having a good day man.
@Paradise: I'm a boomer these days, OM
@Paradise: I fell asleep waiting for you
#OM~!: It's okay I was carrying bags of rice around
#OM~!: Let's get onto the first question! How'd you really get into survivor?
@Paradise: I got into survivor back when the ROs were swirl, akno, and Shame That so like 4ish years ago
@Paradise: It was a different time back then, there wasn't many chill rooms and survivor wasn't a chill room then either
#OM~!: What was it then
@Paradise: but I enjoyed shitposting with spieky and PQ
@Paradise: so I stuck around
#OM~!: I can only truly remember it being super relaxed
#OM~!: It was before your time, but the mods really wanted to make it more like gc these days, W2's and high effort but kinda shit policy
#OM~!: Seems lame
@Paradise: was bad, but a lot of those mods retired after a while and I think you joined the room when I was mod and maybe PQ was RO by then
#OM~!:PQ was ro yeah
@Paradise: so the vibe of room changed a lot
#OM~!:Is there some part of old survivor you wished stuck around?
@Paradise: nah, I wish spieky, PQ, and Don't Lose were still around but I like where the room is and the auth we've got now
@Paradise: it's a lot better than where it used to be
#OM~!:: Well with all the time you've stuck around you must've seen tons and tons of trends rise and fall
#OM~!: Anything that you really liked or hated memewise come to mind?
@Paradise: We had that funwaa shit that was terrible, but I do miss the Roll of Fame meme. For everyone that's reading this, We had a dumb clickbaity image section on our website that people could submit pictures of statistically weird rolls. However, it ended up just being a bunch of pictures of people rolling 69 twice in a row or someone beating someone else's roll by like 1.
@Paradise: Totally useless, but I find dumb stuff like that funny, or at least funny to make fun of
#OM~!:: Continuing on that trend
#OM~!: You bring around so long makes you about as much of a surv expert surv can get
#OM~!:Are there any tips n tricks you'd like to give new joiners to the room?
@Paradise: I'd say don't be afraid to have a personality. End of the day this room's based on luck and rolling dice. Some auth and new users fall into the trap of treating this like a job when really the shitposty and more free nature of the room is what makes it fun. There's about 20ish public rooms now these days on PS, and like 90% of them act like they're curing cancer.
Thankfully this isn't one of those rooms and I think anyone new should take advantage of that.
@Paradise: Oh, and host if you want, it's easier than you think
#OM~!:Alright meme q time
#OM~!: The theme is ssb. Soccer just attacked zyg who is attacking Alexander who has just attacked om. What happens and how does it prove ssb is too complicated?
@Paradise: I've never read the theme page for ssb, and I'm not letting you trick me into doing that for the first time.
@Paradise: that theme's a solid meme and is a good example of what not to do when thinking one up. I don't think it should ever be fixed or played
#OM~!: You've called right into my trap
#OM~!: What is a good example of what to do when thinking one up?
@Paradise: That's getting technical, but in general I'd say try to find a way to explain your theme or idea in the simplest way possible and then building from there. A lot of rookie theme makers fall into the trap of wanting to do too much and making this grandiose theme that ends up being not fun to host and not fun to play. The simpler it is while having some sort of new idea or mechanic the better it usually ends up being.
@Paradise: If you want to look at a theme that does something simple but ends up being really fun, then I'd say look at either exclusions or dexterity.
#OM~!: Neat. Throwing it back to your younger years
#OM~!:Why did you name change so much man
#OM~!: I'm not getting an answer to that one am i
@Paradise: I always wanted Paradise as a username, and I think the amount of changes I made are kinda overblown. I was ParaFail for half a year, then I was phable for about a year, and then Paradise the last 4.
@Paradise: I swapped to phable after the orange on ParaFail was heavily nerfed
@Paradise: funnily enough, phable now looks like garbage now too once they made the color swap to add dark mode to PS
#OM~!: Literally in username paradise huh
#OM~!: Ok final q
#OM~!: Is there anything you'd like to share with the readers?
@Paradise: next thing you'll ask is if I've heard that ColdPlay song
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#OM~!: Have you heard that coldplay song?
@Paradise: Which one?
#OM~!: Violet hill
@Paradise: Nah, You’re the music guy so I figured you’d have something like that up your sleeve. If you want something that gives you good vibes but is also like not complex at all...like most pop stuff, have a listen to this:
#OM~!:I'm at work rn
#OM~!:My mind is only filled with how shit the songs are here
@Paradise: are you listening to maroon 5 on repeat
#OM~!: There are some maroon 5
#OM~!: It's the fucking gnash guy I hate
@Paradise: It's hard to find things worse than the stuff maroon 5 comes up with, so that sounds like you're having fun
#OM~!:Yeah
#OM~!:Not fun
@Paradise: well, get back to it, I'm going to go to bed again
@Paradise: it's my sleep day today
@Paradise: where all I do is sleep and shitpost on the internet
#OM~!: thanks for agreeing to this interview!! Night
@Paradise: good night, don't let the swirlyders bite
@Paradise: I'm a boomer these days, OM
@Paradise: I fell asleep waiting for you
#OM~!: It's okay I was carrying bags of rice around
#OM~!: Let's get onto the first question! How'd you really get into survivor?
@Paradise: I got into survivor back when the ROs were swirl, akno, and Shame That so like 4ish years ago
@Paradise: It was a different time back then, there wasn't many chill rooms and survivor wasn't a chill room then either
#OM~!: What was it then
@Paradise: but I enjoyed shitposting with spieky and PQ
@Paradise: so I stuck around
#OM~!: I can only truly remember it being super relaxed
#OM~!: It was before your time, but the mods really wanted to make it more like gc these days, W2's and high effort but kinda shit policy
#OM~!: Seems lame
@Paradise: was bad, but a lot of those mods retired after a while and I think you joined the room when I was mod and maybe PQ was RO by then
#OM~!:PQ was ro yeah
@Paradise: so the vibe of room changed a lot
#OM~!:Is there some part of old survivor you wished stuck around?
@Paradise: nah, I wish spieky, PQ, and Don't Lose were still around but I like where the room is and the auth we've got now
@Paradise: it's a lot better than where it used to be
#OM~!:: Well with all the time you've stuck around you must've seen tons and tons of trends rise and fall
#OM~!: Anything that you really liked or hated memewise come to mind?
@Paradise: We had that funwaa shit that was terrible, but I do miss the Roll of Fame meme. For everyone that's reading this, We had a dumb clickbaity image section on our website that people could submit pictures of statistically weird rolls. However, it ended up just being a bunch of pictures of people rolling 69 twice in a row or someone beating someone else's roll by like 1.
@Paradise: Totally useless, but I find dumb stuff like that funny, or at least funny to make fun of
#OM~!:: Continuing on that trend
#OM~!: You bring around so long makes you about as much of a surv expert surv can get
#OM~!:Are there any tips n tricks you'd like to give new joiners to the room?
@Paradise: I'd say don't be afraid to have a personality. End of the day this room's based on luck and rolling dice. Some auth and new users fall into the trap of treating this like a job when really the shitposty and more free nature of the room is what makes it fun. There's about 20ish public rooms now these days on PS, and like 90% of them act like they're curing cancer.
Thankfully this isn't one of those rooms and I think anyone new should take advantage of that.
@Paradise: Oh, and host if you want, it's easier than you think
#OM~!:Alright meme q time
#OM~!: The theme is ssb. Soccer just attacked zyg who is attacking Alexander who has just attacked om. What happens and how does it prove ssb is too complicated?
@Paradise: I've never read the theme page for ssb, and I'm not letting you trick me into doing that for the first time.
@Paradise: that theme's a solid meme and is a good example of what not to do when thinking one up. I don't think it should ever be fixed or played
#OM~!: You've called right into my trap
#OM~!: What is a good example of what to do when thinking one up?
@Paradise: That's getting technical, but in general I'd say try to find a way to explain your theme or idea in the simplest way possible and then building from there. A lot of rookie theme makers fall into the trap of wanting to do too much and making this grandiose theme that ends up being not fun to host and not fun to play. The simpler it is while having some sort of new idea or mechanic the better it usually ends up being.
@Paradise: If you want to look at a theme that does something simple but ends up being really fun, then I'd say look at either exclusions or dexterity.
#OM~!: Neat. Throwing it back to your younger years
#OM~!:Why did you name change so much man
#OM~!: I'm not getting an answer to that one am i
@Paradise: I always wanted Paradise as a username, and I think the amount of changes I made are kinda overblown. I was ParaFail for half a year, then I was phable for about a year, and then Paradise the last 4.
@Paradise: I swapped to phable after the orange on ParaFail was heavily nerfed
@Paradise: funnily enough, phable now looks like garbage now too once they made the color swap to add dark mode to PS
#OM~!: Literally in username paradise huh
#OM~!: Ok final q
#OM~!: Is there anything you'd like to share with the readers?
@Paradise: next thing you'll ask is if I've heard that ColdPlay song
@Paradise: If you made it this far, make sure to rate and subscribe. It’ll really help us out.
#OM~!: Have you heard that coldplay song?
@Paradise: Which one?
#OM~!: Violet hill
@Paradise: Nah, You’re the music guy so I figured you’d have something like that up your sleeve. If you want something that gives you good vibes but is also like not complex at all...like most pop stuff, have a listen to this:
#OM~!:I'm at work rn
#OM~!:My mind is only filled with how shit the songs are here
@Paradise: are you listening to maroon 5 on repeat
#OM~!: There are some maroon 5
#OM~!: It's the fucking gnash guy I hate
@Paradise: It's hard to find things worse than the stuff maroon 5 comes up with, so that sounds like you're having fun
#OM~!:Yeah
#OM~!:Not fun
@Paradise: well, get back to it, I'm going to go to bed again
@Paradise: it's my sleep day today
@Paradise: where all I do is sleep and shitpost on the internet
#OM~!: thanks for agreeing to this interview!! Night
@Paradise: good night, don't let the swirlyders bite