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Post by fiaryn on May 8, 2009 20:08:18 GMT -5
Opinion of you...rapidly deteriorating.
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Post by Spectrum on May 8, 2009 20:34:43 GMT -5
Opinion of you...rapidly deteriorating. That was pretty much the intent, yes. I had a perverse grin on my face while typing that out, carefully plotting which horrible turn of phrase to use. It is no way indicative of the kind of person I really am.
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Post by Kay on May 8, 2009 21:13:11 GMT -5
Because you're an AI, who likes reading/writing fanfiction in which characters who, as they are presented in their given medium, have no real reason for engaging in sexual activity with each other?
Read Harry/Snape Harry/Dumbledore Harry/Draco Harry/Ron etc. Fucking 'shippers. -_-
It'd be like someone writing slashfic about Franz and Gilliam, with the older, more experienced Knight teaching the young Cavalier how to handle a stout lance. Ooer.
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Post by fiaryn on May 9, 2009 12:57:54 GMT -5
Fanfiction is so very inherently terrible in every way.
Good stories don't need add-ons and are most often times detracted from by even the best of fan fiction. Bad and mediocre stories, more common subject for fancition, on the other hand tend to produce more of the same except with inconsistent characterization and pointlessly unlikely scenarios.
And when you finally find a true masterpiece of fic, at the end of the day it's still depressing. Because that person could have been putting their talents to use writing something of their own instead of derivative wastes.
Blarghahrghh
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Post by Kay on May 9, 2009 13:20:57 GMT -5
I read a Neon Genesis Evangelion fanfic that I printed out at NASA's expense on the plane back home after I quit living in California. It was awesome in the stupidity it contained. Shinji was all 'fuck you dad I'm not doing this', and the replacement was THE SON OF LARA CROFT AND FOX MULDER, DEREK CROFT. (I think he was called Derek) Also, it had Ritsuko getting it on with Jeff Minter (what), and Kaji was working with Fox Mulder to investigate Seele or something. And Eva 01 was LUCIFER. Honestly, it was... really out there. In fact, HERE IT IS!
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Post by Spectrum on May 9, 2009 13:36:59 GMT -5
Eyrie Productions has done some excellent work, especially if you have slightly higher tolerance for self-insertion, cross-overs, and generally fucking about with setting details to bring characters together. (That is, the characters stay the same, but they might show up in different places.) They have a ton of shit in the archive, though, and the only actually good stuff is around Symphony of the Sword, where they really start getting into Utena + Rayearth.
However, NXE is somewhat painful, because DJ Croft (Derek...Joshua, I want to say offhand) is an annoying git. I want to punch his face in practically every scene until their re-doing of the movie, where he is perhaps only mildly annoying by that point. I do have to give them props (...of a sort) for combining In Nomine, NGE, X-Com, and the X-Files as primary sources in a somewhat coherent fashion.
Let me put it this way. I've read alot of terrible, soul-crushing fanfic. This isn't one of it.
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Post by Kay on May 9, 2009 14:03:53 GMT -5
You called us all dumb, Spectrum. I thought you thought the HSFDF Board was the coolest. I wrote fanfic once as a dare. It was horrible. Then we posted it on a slashfic forum thingie, and pretended to be 'serious' about it. Because we were mocking the stupid that worshipped Walter from Silent Hill 4. I don't think this means I'm a bad person, though. Incestuous bondage rape and an umbilical cord were involved. BUT IT WAS FOR THE LULZ SO THAT'S OKAY.
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Post by Spectrum on May 9, 2009 14:17:25 GMT -5
I called the village as a whole dumb and I mean it. That doesn't mean that there weren't pearls of joy like Fiaryn around. And by dying early, you are also more or less exempt from what I have to say. That still doesn't beat this one series of fics I've read. All I will say is Nemesis and Jill Valentine and that only scratches the surface. No brain bleach has yet been strong enough. =/ Oh, and dredging through my old bookmarks real quick yielded this: svamcentral.org/ewic/ms-inf.htmlOne of the (formerly many) sites dedicated to giving bad fic the MST treatment. At the bottom of this particular page is a few of the UF stinkers.
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Post by Kay on May 9, 2009 14:43:06 GMT -5
I've read fanfic involving what happened to Angela Orosco after she went up those burning stairs near the end of SH2. It was -not- pretty, and yet, didn't strike me as 'that wouldn't happen!' like most fanfic. It was actually pretty well done, even if it did involve raep. >_>
I may check that link out sometime!
As for my plan! I had things set up so that we could work out what stats the enemy started with, and had all of the suspicious guys stuck in the OVERKILL groups. Example, I was fairly sure that JackisReal and I were good, so he and I took on one enemy that we would kill with our sexy doubleattacks IF and ONLY IF the enemy had unbuffed stats. Of course, because I was mafia killed before landing a blow, the enemy didn't die, proving nothing. If I hadn't been killed, we'd have KNOWN that valuable data, and if some of the guys on overkill-receiving-duty lived, then we knew that one guy in their group either missed, or didn't attack, or what-have-you. It was a decent plan, but then oh well I died cry etc etc qq and all that.
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Post by fiaryn on May 9, 2009 19:06:25 GMT -5
I will miss these boards. And this phalla. It was ever so much fun even if I didn't get to do as much FIGHTIN' as I'd have liked :<
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Post by Kay on May 9, 2009 19:39:31 GMT -5
We should start a Suikoden 3 thread in G&T mebbe. But it might just turn into a chat thread. Aww. Guess it's down to PMs to ask you for advide in future! I wish I'd gotten to do some fighting at all. I never even saw what a results page looked like after combat!
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