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poo poo, I accidentally caused the creation of a new thread. Well... cool! Thanks a lot, fellows.
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LLSix posted:I think Homicidal Aliens are Invading and All I Got is This Stat Menu is a more fun take on the same idea. Still an alien invasion, but much more upbeat and light-hearted. As you can probably tell from the title. This one's also on indefinite hiatus, unfortunately.
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Jul 13, 2020 03:12
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Bakanogami posted:
Tricks is the word alright, you... you smut-peddler! I see why it's called Blue Core, huh? Pervert.
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Sep 24, 2020 20:22
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LLSix posted:What's smutty about the phrase "blue core"?
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Sep 25, 2020 23:37
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LLSix posted:Ok. Aren't they? It's the only definition I've ever heard. It's kinda antiquated, sure, but Merriam-Webster has: Blue: . . . a : profane, indecent a blue movie b : off-color, risqué blue jokes People say of a place with a lot of ribald talk that 'the air is practically turning blue,' that sort of thing.
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Sep 26, 2020 04:34
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Plorkyeran posted:I've literally never heard anyone say that and have only ever heard of "blue laws" referring to alcohol sales restrictions. Well, maybe you didn't grow up on reading material from the 40's to the 60's because it was stuff laying around your grandparent's house and stuff bought from garage sales! 
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Sep 26, 2020 05:20
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BadMedic posted:Rhawrexdee = rawrXD That latter is probably just  , really!
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Oct 15, 2020 19:07
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90s Cringe Rock posted:how do people live without rss I do pretty well not knowing what RSS is or what it's for in the slightest, except I guess from context hints here that it lets you keep up with webfiction?
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Jun 13, 2021 05:27
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tithin posted:It's a notifier system, tells you when a new thing on a website has been published Nettle Soup posted:Most websites have an RSS feed hidden somewhere. You plug that into your feed reader app, and then every time the website updates, your reader pick it up and tells you / shows you the update when you check it, depending on how they've configured it. you fools, now I can't unlearn that, I spend a lot of time remaining as ignorant as possible
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Jun 14, 2021 05:13
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Ytlaya posted:One thing that bugs me when it shows up in writing is when someone says "I nervously bit my lip until it bled." I don't know if my lips are just made differently than other people's, but lips are very sensitive and it hurts like hell to actually bite them (much less hard enough to bleed). It's not like biting a piece of beef jerky or something. I bite my lips/cheeks so hard they bleed like, every night, while asleep.
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Jul 18, 2021 01:00
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Neurophage posted:featuring an abusive father who feels like a parody. lol if you didn't encounter abuse that reads as parody, like my former-army scoutmaster who literally slammed me against the wall with his hand on my neck for blowing through a straw at the air museum, or my first girlfriend who used to slap the poo poo out of me for talking about things she didn't want to talk about, and straight-up told me it was my fault for making her upset and why did I make her do it, baby you know she has to hit me when I do things like that never underestimate people's ability to be lovely, is what I'm saying
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Sep 23, 2021 18:24
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I would absolutely read I Descend Nothing (Titan Racing)
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Oct 2, 2021 16:22
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Mulozon Empuri posted:My Absolutely Incredible Astonishing Super-Amazing Life As Someone In Another World Is Absolutely and Unquestionably Beyond Reproach...It Sucks Probably the most well written one. Reminds me of K. J. Parker. Poor protagonist. This link doesn't work, which is a shame since you say it's probably the best one. Or, rather, it leads to a login screen, and I don't intend to create an account anytime soon.
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Dec 2, 2021 02:54
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I thought about making an Old Man Yells At Cloud post about it, but yeah, what we call CYOAs, collaborative storytelling on the forums, are called quests on the majority of forums. I'm of two minds about it; quests were originally the art-based things, usually with parser inputs (like Homestuck), and it seems like the phrase mutated awfully fast, but on the other hand Choose Your Own Adventures are... rather different from the forum CYOAs, so it's not like it's any more inaccurate.Newfork posted:There's a section of Sufficient Velocity that is deliberately only available to logged in users, and that's where this was posted. Well, drat.
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Dec 2, 2021 03:20
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LLSix posted:Millennial Mage: Maybe Lynn’s motive is much simpler than weave been thinking. Lynn is Holly’s friend. Maybe she introduced Tala to Holly as a favor for Holly. She even says that she knew Holly would be very interested in Tala’s inscriptions. People can do things for more than one reason! And I think that's probably what happened in this case.
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Dec 30, 2021 23:46
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nrook posted:Despite its atrocious name, Ave Xia Rem Y is definitely my favorite Western cultivation web serial. It’s exciting, it’s interesting, the protagonist is easy to root for, and the writing is good enough that I never notice it being bad, which is more than I can say for many other series I like. I read some of Azarinth Healer! Nobody who read it would look for stories about people who spend time curing people for 'similar themes,' because despite the name Azarinth Healer is about a martial arts berserker who spends huge amounts of time ripping apart dragons in the wilderness to grind XP -she only heals herself.
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Jan 25, 2022 21:17
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In fairness, Beware of Chicken could probably make a super-wholesome harem story. ...I guess if it's wholesome it's not a harem, huh? Multiple partners.
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Jan 27, 2022 04:39
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Narmi posted:It's pretty messed up to call someone a pedophile because you don't get satire. Hey, they didn't call anyone a pedophile, they just said "wow, that's some pedo poo poo, to the extent that you in thread sure are [i] suspicious [i/]," but did not actually state what they were suspicious of, and that's all it takes to skirt around the rules against calling other posters pedophiles, which ofc were established because it became bizarrely common
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Feb 23, 2022 04:08
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Re: Metropolitan Man: I think the most generous possible interpretation of Lex's beliefs* is that he sat down and calculated maybe a ten,, fifteen percent chance of Superman killing most or all life on Earth, and then decided that one person's life wasn't worth the risk. Which is a conclusion I can agree with, mathematically**, but it's a decision based on mathematics and it's possible to affect those odds. In this case, a significant portion of the actual risk, and most of the calculatable portion, is from Superman becoming stressed, or despairing, or otherwise mentally unstable, so you should definitely not make those things more likely. By supporting Superman, you could make his life better and easier, and by extension save many lives at a much more efficient cost proposition than many other causes - giving Superman HQ and organizational support, for example, would be a very good charity up to a point. Even if Superman gave up heroing, just say "Fine, dude, just practice self-care and have a good time" so that he doesn't destroy the planet because of frustration or sadness or whatever. *a practice which is called steelmanning, appropriately enough **A common argument here is that the calculations are going to be divorced in some degree from the 'actual' numbers because we're talking about some pretty vague stuff; the natural counterargument is that of course they are, but a few days spent legitimately looking at sources and thinking heavily is going to turn out a more accurate answer than a casual feeling you got in a few seconds. The trick, of course, is asking the right question.
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Mar 12, 2022 07:19
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Dikkfor posted:Speaking of, I've been enjoying Industrial Strength Magic https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57011/industrial-strength-magic This guy's name is Perry Zauberer 
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Sep 5, 2022 19:37
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Look, Saunders, you could just tell us directly rather than post a screenshot.
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Dec 18, 2022 19:02
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Selkie Myth posted:My personal take on OP protagonists - the System is what's allowing the protagonist to be OP. Everyone* has a System. I have a specific pet peeve where cheap litRPGs have the main character acquire or level the Analyze (etc.) skill, and everybody acts like it's unheard-of to do so because it's worthless garbage, doesn't even deal any damage, etc I've seen it like twelve times and it's so bad I think Delve isn't 100% an example of the issue you're complaining about, though - it's not because his auras-based build is supposedly such a wild and crazy idea that nobody's ever thought of it before, but just that the culture around doesn't have a lot of deviation from the norm. I haven't read Delve in a long time, so I might be wrong here about details, but IIRC a lot of the stuff with his weirdo build is stuff he discusses with others, and they're like "yeah, I guess you could do that, but then you'd run into [problems go here]," and he doesn't care about some of the problems (because they're about expectations and standard forms of combat, and he doesn't buy into a lot of the cultural norms) or he just, like, accepts that those things are problems, and has those problems. In Dragoneye Moons the system is super flexible and people get their own custom basically-anything, there's people who are like level 2000 [Bookbinders] and most of their skills are specifically about binding books in fantastical ways, or level 2500 [Constant Friend]/[Sidekick]/[Dueteragonists] who specialize in hanging out with up-and-coming heroes and bringing them to greater heights, or level 3000 [Van Wilders] who've just stayed at school for a thousand years and all their skills are about partying and mooching, but the system in Delve is WAY more restrictive, and (partially as a consequence, partially as just a general difference) the culture is not nearly as broad. It's less "nobody, out of hundreds of millions of people, ever thought of this before!" and more "The people in this country find that these options do not fit their needs and so further options in that vein haven't been adequately explored."
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Feb 16, 2023 20:01
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Ytlaya posted:I don't think something like this will end up being the case (or at least I hope something like that isn't the case, because "they secretly are trying to sacrifice client races to demons!" would be a lame twist). I think it's more just the case that they passively deny knowledge just because they wouldn't gain from making it available (and not even very strictly, since the System will be aware of Joe teaching Alden deeper stuff and won't care). I think that "demon fodder" was less "they are sacrificing them to demons" and more "they are summoning the humans to do difficult or menial tasks"
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Onean posted:Anything interesting that's popped up in here this past year, aside from SS that everyone's already taking about? Also big in the last handful of pages: Time to Orbit: Unknown! Fella wakes up out of cryosleep on a busted generation ship, has to keep everything running and survive. https://derinstories.com/2022/06/04/001-the-problem-with-the-javelin-program/ Edit: Also I personally really like Apparatus of Change, which doesn't get a lot of play around here. Might be described as a Dungeon Core story, but... that'd be wrong, because it contains all the trappings of the genre, while being totally different in tone, goals, etc. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57115/apparatus-of-change/chapter/960008/chapter-001 John Lee fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Jul 24, 2023 |
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A big flaming stink posted:Minor correction, but we don't actually know explicitly what Aspen's gender ID is, it's probably some flavor of non-binary Aspen IS non-binary, or some future equivalent - I don't think 'fellow' (fella) is explicitly gendered, is it? Seems a bit rude to limit being, like, an equal or companion to one gender, but that's the only thing I can think of that you might be referring to.
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Jul 24, 2023 22:20
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haha but really is 'fellow' masculine because if so there's somebody I need to apologize to
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Jul 25, 2023 14:42
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Yeah, all three of those have, like, an actual setting and almost certainly an actual plot, i.e. something that's inside the box. Now, you can disagree and say "no, clearly those are all just faking it and stringing the readers along," but, having seen a lot of the latter, none of the former feel like that at all to me.
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Jul 26, 2023 18:55
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Patrick Spens posted:Really don't understand the obvious desire people have for no one to read stories they don't like. but bro if you like those stories you're wrong
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Aug 28, 2023 04:17
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Nitrousoxide posted:Man, I really love the whole "we're in a story and we totally realize it" aspect of "A Practical Guide to Evil". Stuff like explictily calling out the rule-of-three and planning around how to thwart the author's intent or stuff like this in vol 3: That could get annoying, but luckily (minor spoilers for motivations revealed a few chapters from then) that guy can be manipulated so easily in particular because he's a fey, who are more-than-usually bound to the rules of story
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Sep 30, 2023 00:00
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Wait, wait, I'm confused after the past couple days of discourse, am I allowed to like Super Supportive or not? It sounds like it's either high quality and uses narrative tools well or sucks rear end and and stupid and boring
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Oct 10, 2023 03:39
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Almost everybody in this thread for a couple years talks entirely about how Worm sucks rear end, is a big pile of poo poo, and the author is a stupid probably-Nazi, and now like eight people say it's good? I don't know what I'm allowed to like
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Nov 15, 2023 01:32
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Bremen posted:I don't remember any solid evidence Wildbow is a Nazi though. He seems to possibly hate people in general, but I don't think he has particular ire for any specific ethnic groups. Yeah, it was somebody going "Wow, there's not a lot of effort put into realistic gang behavior, but the structure of the Neo-Nazi gang sure is accurate suspiciously accurate, if you ask me where did Wildbow come by such detailed knowledge of how Nazis operate? who can say"
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Nov 15, 2023 06:10
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Fajita Queen posted:
I'll allow a lot of leeway on gang structure in Worm, since like 70% of the population of the planet is dead and power can be and is directly enforced by the insane personal power of individuals, both of which are gonna dramatically change organizational structures
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Nov 15, 2023 08:21
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:Not really. Number Man gives a population number for Earth Bet in 2011 that's basically the same as the population number for our Earth in 2011 (edit: it's a difference of 1%.) The dystopian, apocalyptic elements of Earth Bet's culture and society are drastically overstated by the Worm fandom. Sorry I can't be more specific, because I'm not gonna read through Worm again right now to find out, but I recall running into something quite a ways into Worm that made me memorably go "holy poo poo that's a lot of dead people globally, dunno if that counts as a twist but what a way to bury the lead" Of course,one or the other of these could have been some kind of mistake!
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Omi no Kami posted:I've always felt that the serial space does a great disservice to its writers. Between the patreon stuff, the weird parasocial nonsense, and the insane amount of antagonism everyone involved directs towards negative feedback, it feels like authors get trapped in a world where their first attempt at writing receives nonstop validation. See, first off, the discourse around webfiction seems much MORE negative to me than around other books - see Velius posted:the Patreon is just full of comments about exponential growth curves of character strength and why isn’t the MC even more powerful?! Ugh. Like, there's a massive contingent of people talking poo poo about every part of every webfiction. And, personally, I think constructive criticism CAN be helpful, but all too often it turns into hearing that people don't want what you actually liked about your work - there's a ton of posts in this very thread about how most webfiction kinda sucks because it's incredibly long and drawn-out, and Proper Writing Technique says to plot like you're making a movie, tight and efficient. But if somebody want to write something long and drawn-out, and somebody else wants to read it, then they are writing correctly, full stop. Plenty of webfiction I like wouldn't exist if the author was told they were writing wrong because it doesn't fit the common conception of the correct way to write.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:That's a bad argument. A lot of really lovely reality tv is popular. It doesn't mean its good, just that some people have really poo poo taste. There is also the whole continuing to consume a work just due to momentum even if it no longer has much appeal. "Sure, maybe the AUTHOR likes it, and the READERS like it, but popular things aren't necessarily good  "Like, sorry if I'm being overly obvious, but: There are plenty of works in every media sphere that simply do nothing for me, and I really see them as worthless... to me. But the exact opposite thing has happened, where a work is meaningful to me and other people say that it's obviously garbage for idiots, because people are different and find different things valuable. It's a mistake to say that things you see as poorly crafted and/or having no meaningful message are Bad and shouldn't exist - at the very least, the reading audience could simply have not encountered the ideas present before, because they're not big readers/thinkers or they're just kids. You say that it happens all the time that writers get creative control and then their writing is RUINED because they get to write what and how they want (many such cases!  ), but, uh, I bet they don't feel that way. "Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's good!" is exactly what you said up there, but when it's about a writer writing whatever they actually want, but (implicitly) losing some audience because of it, suddenly the popular opinion IS the mark of quality? Either making your work more popular by hewing closer to the median popularity of pacing, plotting, story type, etc. is bad or it's good or it's neither, but TBH it sounds like you're saying "It's bad when it's stuff that, in those changes, got farther from my personal tastes, but good when it produces stuff I like."
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Jazerus posted:nobody is clamoring for stories with persistent spelling errors, oh yeah? explain Homestuck
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awesmoe posted:They didn't get to choose the priority of rescue - like, the people of anesidora's votes don't affect who gets saved in an emergency. Human decisions got trumped by artonan values. In fairness, humans are really bad at preserving their own values, especially but not limited to in times of crisis
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