The Pivot Questionnaire

[Slenn]

Many people who watch "Inside the Actor's Studio" are familiar with this series of questions. As something to think about, and perhaps open yourself to the Escapist, try answering the questions as an exercise.

1. What is your favorite word?
- Solace

2. What is your least favorite word?
- Stupid

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
- Intelligence, wisdom, cuteness, and cool precipitation from the sky.

4. What turns you off?
- Rudeness in any form such as cheating, lying, bullying, insulting, making fun of others or myself. It kills my mood any time. Especially insulting someone.

5. What is your favorite curse word?
- Ahhhh?. s**t.

6. What sound or noise do you love?
- Rainfall.

7. What sound or noise to you hate?
- The tone you hear from an unanswered phone call.

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
(Currently mine is a graduate student in nuclear physics).
- Biologist or animator.

9. What profession would you not like to do?
- A soldier in the military.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
- You've found your place in the cosmos. Your family and friends are over there, a gaming convention over there, and there's an anime convention over there.

 

[Elfgore]

This could be fun. Here's mine.

1. Ugh!

2. All slurs.

3. Working, watching youtube videos, and day-dreaming.

4. Genuine Dickishness.

5. Fuck.

6. 'Eavy Metal Music!

7. My phone's vibrate mode.

8. Writer.

9. Customer service rep.

10. "Here's a room with all the anime you can watch, games you can play, and manga, comics, and novels you can read. Enjoy."

 

[Barbas]

Well, that seems pretty fair.

1. What is your favorite word?
- Parabellum.

2. What is your least favorite word?
- Selfie.

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
- Fish, olive groves, rustling oak trees and mountain chains.

4. What turns you off?
- Egotism, rampant dishonesty, savagery.

5. What is your favorite curse word?
- Crap.

6. What sound or noise do you love?
- Swampy stuff.

7. What sound or noise to you hate?
- Angry shouting and screaming.

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
- Musician, pilot.

9. What profession would you not like to do?
- Soldier, policeman, chef.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
- "Welcome to Level 2."

 

[VyseRogueKing]

1. What is your favorite word?
- Skullduggery

2. What is your least favorite word?
- hella

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
- Sleeeep.

4. What turns you off?
- Perpetuation of human stupidity.

5. What is your favorite curse word?
- Frick/Friggin' don't know why since I'm perfectly fine with saying fuck.

6. What sound or noise do you love?
- Rain.

7. What sound or noise to you hate?
- The sound of a pencil scratching against paper instead of writing properly. It's physically painful

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
- Musician

9. What profession would you not like to do?
- Anything cubicle based.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
- Sorry for the inconvenience.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

1. What is your favorite word?
- Fluffy.

2. What is your least favorite word?
- Chillax.

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
- Really good music, and creativity.

4. What turns you off?
- Smoking and general mean-spirited dickitry.

5. What is your favorite curse word?
- Dammit.

6. What sound or noise do you love?
- Rain hitting my window.

7. What sound or noise to you hate?
- Feedback around the 5k and above frequency. Also, nails on a chalkboard.

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? (Currently mine is a graduate student in nuclear physics).
- Writer.

9. What profession would you not like to do?
- Police or soldier. Don't think I'd like getting shot at.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
- 'That'll do pig man, that'll do.'

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

1. What is your favorite word?
- Manantial.

2. What is your least favorite word?
- Something in French.

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
- Nighttime.

4. What turns you off?
- Corruption.

5. What is your favorite curse word?
- La puta madre.

6. What sound or noise do you love?
- Waves crashing.

7. What sound or noise to you hate?
- Ambulances.

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
- Actor.

9. What profession would you not like to do?
- Anything military.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
- "Wanna do it again?"

 

[William Fleming]

1. What is your favorite word?
- Awesome

2. What is your least favorite word?
- Pretty much any intentional racist insult

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
- Intelligence, wisdom, cuteness, and cool precipitation from the sky.

4. What turns you off?
- People not earning their keep, those overly reliant on any recent smartphone

5. What is your favorite curse word?
- Bull~

6. What sound or noise do you love?
- Quiet sound of fan or heater (whether its hot or cold respectively)

7. What sound or noise to you hate?
- Phone's ringtone

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
- Mangaka (manga artist/writer for those unfamiliar with the term)

9. What profession would you not like to do?
- Does customer service count? If not, then public relations.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
- Took you long enough...

 

[GundamSentinel]

1. What is your favorite word?
- Droeftoeter

2. What is your least favorite word?
- Yolo

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
- Ideas or thoughts that challenge my own thoughts.

4. What turns you off?
- People who think they're cleverer than they are or confident people who have no reason to be confident.

5. What is your favorite curse word?
- Oelewapper (okay, not really that much of a curse word, but w/e )

6. What sound or noise do you love?
- Blackbirds whistling

7. What sound or noise to you hate?
- Children crying

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
- Astronomer

9. What profession would you not like to do?
- Debt collector

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
- "This time I'll let you decide."

 

[Slenn]

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? (Currently mine is a graduate student in nuclear physics).
- Musician, pilot.

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? (Currently mine is a graduate student in nuclear physics).
- Writer.

You both are also graduate students in nuclear physics? XD. JK, but I'll edit my original.

 

[BeerTent]

HORRAY! QUIZZES!!

1. What is your favorite word?
- Prabhava

2. What is your least favorite word?
- Dumb

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
- One drink of booze (No more!) or adorably cute things or people.

4. What turns you off?
- General incompetence.

5. What is your favorite curse word?
- Fuckwagon!

6. What sound or noise do you love?
- A quiet pop. Which is probably why I'm still hooked on Minecraft.

7. What sound or noise to you hate?
- Ringing phones. I wonder why...

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
- Welder

9. What profession would you not like to do?
- Service industry. Consulting/Outsourcing is a second, Information Technology is a 3rd.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
- "You must be in awe. Allow me to explain my plan..."