DISLIKE
Quick dump of stuff I've been working on since my last hiatus. CnC appreciated as always. A lot of these are available for general use on request.
AND I SHALL TELL YOU A TALE. A TALE OF A WEBSITE YOU KNOW ONLY TOO WELL, AND HOW IT NEARLY BURNED TO THE GROUND, ONLY TO RISE LIKE A PHOENIX FROM THE ASHES. IT ALL STARTED WITH THE RETURN OF A LEGEND... A JOYOUS OCCASION, TO BE SURE. BUT NONE COULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT BLOOD PRICE WOULD BE PAID FOR THIS WINDFALL. INDEED, THOUGH THE MAN BEHIND THE ACT HAD DONE A GREAT KINDNESS, 'TWAS MARRED BY THE FOUL STAIN OF SPITE. A STAIN THAT EVEN THE FIERCEST DETERGENTS COULD SCARCELY CLEAN. THE MODERATORS QUARRELED O'ER THIS FRESHLY RAISED CORPSE. THE BLOODY BATTLE RAGED FOR SEVEN DAYS AND SEVEN NIGHTS, AND AT ITS CLIMAX, MANY A BODY LAY STREWN ACROSS THE STAFF SECTION. NONE COULD FELL THE ADMIN; ALL WHO TRIED WERE BANISHED FROM HIS REALM. CHAOS REIGNED IN THE WAKE OF THE PURGE, AND SO CAME REVOLT. MEMBERS ROSE UP IN DEFIANCE, SOME STAGING A DRAMATIC EXIT, OTHERS ATTEMPTING ASSASSINATION. SO GREAT WAS THE UPHEAVAL, THAT NO AMOUNT OF LOCKED THREADS OR TEMP-BANS COULD QUELL THE STORM. THE STAFF, SENSING THE END WAS NIGH, POOLED THEIR REMAINING STRENGTH IN AN ACT OF DESPERATION. AND DESPERATION IT WAS, TRUE; FOR EVEN NOW, ALL SEEMED LOST. SUDDENLY, A MIRACLE... THE ADMIN DESCENDED FROM HIS THRONE, CAST OFF THE MANTLE OF DRAMA, ADMITTED TO HIS TYRANNY AND FINALLY SOLD A HIT (AND THE SITE TO BOOT). MEMBERS SURGED FORTH TO BEAR WITNESS. ALL WERE STUNNED. AN EVENT THAT ROCKED THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF THE FORUMS, THAT MANAGED TO PISS OFF THE SERENE ASHWIN, THE OBLIVIOUS AMAURY, AND THE ANCIENT EXPLODE... OVER? FINISHED IN THE SPAN OF A WEEK? BUT THE TRUTH COULD NOT BE DENIED. KH-VIDS WAS SAVED. BY PROVIDENCE, PERHAPS. BUT SAVED NONETHELESS. AND JUST LIKE THAT, THE BOARDS WERE RESTORED. THE NIGHTMARE FORGOTTEN. STAFF RETURNED TO THEIR POSTS, SOME SURGING TO EVEN GREATER POWER LEVELS THAN EVER BEFORE. FUCKING LUX GOT ADMIN'D SOMEHOW, STILL BAFFLED BY THAT. MUST'VE REALLY PONIED UP THE DOUGH. I'LL CATCH UP TO YOU YET, YA RICE-EATING SACKA SHIT. AT LAST, AFTER PASSING THROUGH NEGLECTFUL HANDS AND IRON FISTS, KH-VIDS WOULD KNOW REST—IN THE HANDS OF THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED AND CHERISHED IT ALL THESE YEARS. THOSE WHO LAUGHED, CRIED—AND ABOVE ALL, ENDURED. (AND LUX.) MAY TODAY'S PEACE LAST UNTO ETERNITY. CREDITS, MOTHERFUCKER.
OK I THINK WE'RE CLEAR NOW
YOU PUT YOUR LEFT FOOT IN AND YOU SHAKE IT ALL ABOUT
Good work, team.
Spoiler Gave you some options, couldn't decide which one I liked best. None of these count towards revisions though. As always, click for swarce, lemme know if you like 'em.
I never expected to be followed this time. I'm proud of you, kids. Shine on.
YOU PUT YOUR LEFT FOOT IN YOU PUT YOUR LEFT FOOT OUT
AND WE GON RIIIIDE
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking. Like I have a smaller version on my hard drive somewhere, but it's still too big. I wanted to go smaller not bigger. And this looks a lot like the last one so somebody looked at the last one and said said WE NEED MORE. THIS IS NOT ENOUGH INFORMATOINS.
I think you overestimated our capacity to continue discussing this tbh
omg bb /makes u homemade milkshakes Don't worry, you'll feel a lot better in under a week. Just kick back and enjoy the downtime 'til then
Enough to fill out this fuckin' behemoth?
I feel like this is the least of their worries and it's only being publicized because it's Blizzard/Overwatch. But yeah this is a supremely difficult fight to win, based on a lot of things you mentioned already. If anything is done about it, it would have to be a good-faith gesture on Blizzard's part, which I will say is not impossible. As for whether it's justified, I really have no dog in that race. I see where they're coming from, but like I said (like you said, Marushi), if that's what they're concerned about they have plenty of better places to start.
Dig it. B) I am good at nothing if not theorycrafting so I'm totes down 4 that.
I'd try to jam the lever so the track gets stuck in between the two positions, bringing the trolley to a halt and (hopefully) sparing all six. Even if I failed and it hit the five, at least I tried. In my mind it's better to try to save six and fail to save five, than to willfully let even one die. This is, of course, assuming that the six people are too far for me to just yell GET THE F#%K OFF THE TRACK YA IDGITS THERE'S A TROLLEY COMIN'.
I like this idea on principle, but I would offer a warning: Making four characters at least a decent fit for all four houses runs the risk of them coming off kinda samey. I would really take care to emphasize their differences, and not just personality-wise but in mechanical terms. If the Slytherin character wants to join Gryffindor, for instance, the Sorting Hat could make a ruckus about it, at first refusing to sort them there. Just an example of how the narrative structure can tell the reader something about the characters, rather than you having to spell it all out for them. I think it would be quite funny if the question just wasn't answered. Like, their child wanders off into a store they straight-up can't see, and they just have to trust that all the bright-eyed, be-robed schoolchildren are actually picking out supplies and not just waving twigs in an alley like crazy people. That said, I hear Rowling answers HP questions via Twitter, if you care to try that.
I feel where you're coming from. Technically I'm half Cuban, but you'd never know it from my face. The other half is a mash of European, of course, and I've acted like a white guy(?) all my life so it's not a stretch to call a spade a spade. But as a result I also feel like I don't... really have an identity to speak of. I have no culture, no background of note. Hell, I don't even know most of my family. But even from the perspective of a white man, I believe the problems with representation can be felt. It's not that I have no one to relate to. It's that I have so many characters I'm supposed to relate to, but none of them really have identities either, due to over-saturation turning them into generic cookie-cutter stereotypes of real people. It's a quantity over quality issue. The only times I identify with a character have nothing to do with their sex or skin color, and yet they must always, inevitably, be white men. Tony Stark's failure to reconcile with his father hit me hard. Tony Stark could've been black, and it wouldn't have changed that character arc. Even if it was a cultural thing, hearkening to the ghetto black community's issues with paternal abandonment, I could still identify with the family aspect if not the cultural one. People will dismiss arguments like these, on grounds that they're too "political," whatever that means. Sometimes I think that word just gets smacked on any subject folks don't wanna talk about. But I can come at this from another angle, because I'm an artist, specifically a writer, and not just a hobbyist but one who studies his craft and constantly works to refine it. As an artist, in any field, you want your work to reach people. Because if they can't identify, if they can't stake their claim on some small part of the work, then they won't have an emotional reaction. And by some definitions, that's all that makes art: the capacity to evoke a reaction. Representation of any form of identity—cultural, racial, sexual, what have you—is a simple, fundamental, effective method of getting the viewer emotionally invested in your work. Even the effort can garner recognition and praise, especially in today's world where the effort is so rarely put in. So... why not do it? Why not use this tool to the fullest? To say nothing of your worldview or your "political" stance on the issue of representation, if you know that people will respond favorably to it, that it will enrich the quality of your work, why would you not take advantage of that? Failure to do so, then, is not a sign of prejudice, nor even a statement of personal opinion, but a lack of creativity. In the best case, your work could've been so much better; in the worst, you have failed as an artist. There are only a few reasons I can see that people wouldn't give a care for representation. First, is that they're just not paying attention. That's unfortunate but easily solved; make them notice. Second is that they don't believe there's a problem, and well, not to be rude but if you're one of those folks then you might be in denial. Third is that they disagree with the premise—better representation = better-quality art—at which point their prejudice has begun to show and we can all point and laugh. Fourth is that some of their fans disagree with the premise and they fear backlash, to which I say let them lash; they would've proven impossible to please anyway, and you don't want to be remembered for staying on the bigots' good side. So yes, if you ask me the benefits of representation are self-evident, far-reaching, and not terribly difficult to tap into, and it takes sheer, willful ignorance or a complete disregard for other people's feelings to toss those benefits in the garbage. No one profits from a lack of equal rep, not even the people with a surplus of it, because it cheapens the traits and circumstances we're supposed to identify with. We shouldn't want that. We shouldn't fear the loss of that. Things are not O.K. as they are, so why resist change?
Well said. Town deserves ample credit for keeping their head in the game and making good plays. Solid first win. I do, however, feel fucking TERRIBLE for Ghost :'D
