While We Wait: Boredom Strikes Back

[Anonymoose]

Russian ghosts don't do osmosis so well.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

Actually, wouldn't a ghost have a theoretically easier time of osmosis? They could just walk right through the books and stuff.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

But absorb the knowledge?

 

[Anonymoose]

Ghosts don't have selectively permeable membranes, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

The ghosts in the Sims 3 can absorb knowledge.

 

[Angst]

On fan fiction: To me, the genre usually translates into the work of a younger teen, usually focused on coitus between two people from popculture, ie sechs between Harry and Hermione, Son-Goku and Vegeta, Edward and Jacob, and somehow, the males seem to get pregnant. I think I might be missing out on the genre or something. Or mistake it for something else. 'Slash' fiction?

On ghosts: I have no idea or opinion about them.

Just to agree with what NK and Iggy said...

I don't get it.

Is it an eco-friendly version, nutra?

Original Japanese versions were Red & Green I think.

 

[nutranurse]

Anyone have any links to civ II style unit/citystyle graphics? I lost my stash when I had to restore my computer.

 

[Northen Wolf]

I'd be willing to do Europe... my main issue is where do I limit it... there aren't any really natural borders like there are in the Americas... I wouldn't want to be much larger than Europe, North Africa, and the Levant, but I don't see how to prevent players from wanting to go off in all directions.

Just nuke/irritate or make natural pitfalls (where, say, gravity stops working) around the area. I like England aswell, tribes would not grow much larger than a million probably.

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I like fanfiction, unless it tries to explain why important events happened, like why did two kingdoms go to war (in this case it's often stupid). Fanfiction that places some new characters into this world and makes them follow laws of that world or explain how characters would live in that world, are fictions that I like. I hate when fanfiction uses characters from books and gives them relations that they did not have, say kermonie and karry potter (Russified Potter Name) making a lot of puppylove for an example.
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Anyone have any links to civ II style unit/citystyle graphics? I lost my stash when I had to restore my computer.

http://www.spriters-resource.com/pc_computer/civ2/
Just search for "Spriters". Mythological.God-Like-user aka Daft probably has what you need too.

 

[nutranurse]

Yeah, I remember getting my stash from Daft in the first place.

 

[Thlayli]

I don't get it.

Though I hate explaining the joke, it's a comment on how the blue forum skin is the best.

 

[Masada]

What the hell do you read LJ?

 

[Abaddon]

I love fanfiction! But then it does seem I aways fall on the other side of the coin here

I admit it is very hard to find anything but absolute tosh (in which invariably has the main characters having relations). But other than that you're onto a winner! Stuff set in the Discworld is my favorite, but i've actually read some decent Harry Potter (would you believe) that didn't involve the main characters AT ALL. It took the older weasley brothers and their adventures far away from Hogworts etc

 

[Lord_Iggy]

As has been articulated before, there's good and bad- mostly bad, but that's no reason to discount the good.

 

[das]

Well honestly that would seem to be a formula for success. Not involving the main characters.

I could understand the appeal of writing it, actually, it's just that fan fiction tends to appeal only to its authors and a small likeminded segment of the fandom; to everyone else it really would be tosh. The more it distances itself from the main canon, though - past a certain... line that is not unlike the uncanny valley - the better and more attractive it becomes.

That's just a rash theory, though.

Honestly, alternate history is kind of like fan fiction in some regards, isn't it? I'd say there's more of a cerebral element involved in it, but it's not like there's no thoroughly planned and intelligent fan fiction out there. It's just that the "fandom" in this case is everyone interested in history, and the canon is much more muddled in the first place.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Good point das.

 

[Luckymoose]

I write fanfiction every week on #nesdnd.

 

[Kraznaya]

As has been articulated before, there's good and bad- mostly bad, but that's no reason to discount the good.

That's a cop out, and you know it. There are very good reasons why fanfiction shouldn't be encouraged as a literary medium, and the fact that a certain subset of the work is acceptable to you doesn't change that.

Honestly, alternate history is kind of like fan fiction in some regards, isn't it? I'd say there's more of a cerebral element involved in it, but it's not like there's no thoroughly planned and intelligent fan fiction out there. It's just that the "fandom" in this case is everyone interested in history, and the canon is much more muddled in the first place.

No, because then nearly all fictional literary works would be anthropological or sociological fanfiction on the account of involving humans. Stretching things to illogical extremes is silly.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

A cop out? What? I'm not encouraging or discouraging it, merely stating that most, though not all of it is not worth reading. Do I have to make a stand as to whether or not fanfiction is monolithically good or bad?

 

[SKILORD]

this one time I used to write halo fanfic and I managed to avoid any overt eroticism (although for the most part it did not avoid other pitfalls of fanfic, it represents a long creative drought that took three years of my life and culminated with me completely losing my mind). Dudes getting pregnant? Was it fanfic for the movie 'Junior'? That sounds crazy.

There are very good reasons why fanfiction shouldn't be encouraged as a literary medium

false. If an author feels threatened by fanfic then he needs to work harder to put his own stories on a higher literary plane than fanfic and ignoring the non-threat represented by fanfic. You talk like it's music piracy when it's more like low-quality bands playing covers.

 

[Luckymoose]

Kraz isn't your inevitable reboot of DaNES II technically fanfiction?