Damn that was a good laugh.Both were true. I found some (not all) of the criticisms demoralizing, and it was worse because some (not all) had very valid points.
But so what? Why are we still harping on this? All these posts have an implicit "Brandon, you need to get over it" tone to them... but it's been three weeks! I've written 20k words for another story, published 14k more (to reasonably good response), set out a migration path for a $100k server upgrade, cooked a pair of high-quality steaks to perfection, beat a really frustrating fight in Divinity: Original Sin, *and* got a flying ERPPC kill shot in my VPR-B (though not both at the same time, obviously).
I'm over it. Life is good.
Both were true. I found some (not all) of the criticisms demoralizing, and it was worse because some (not all) had very valid points.
But so what? Why are we still harping on this? All these posts have an implicit "Brandon, you need to get over it" tone to them... but it's been three weeks! I've written 20k words for another story, published 14k more (to reasonably good response), set out a migration path for a $100k server upgrade, cooked a pair of high-quality steaks to perfection, beat a really frustrating fight in Divinity: Original Sin, *and* got a flying ERPPC kill shot in my VPR-B (though not both at the same time, obviously).
I'm over it. Life is good.
...the phrasing of that leaves me enough wiggle-room to imagine that you cooked those two steaks with the heat output from that ERPPC.
How well done do you burn your steaks, you monster?!
It IS bullying though. Posts in User Fiction should have minimum word counts, to force people to actually think about what they write, so that if they are negative, they can be constructive, instead of idiotic.
Holy shit. I just realized you're the author of my Favorite Jenkinsverse story. Can I just say that I love the way you wrote Xiu and the Gaoians.
No, that's just an asshole. I was referring to posts like mine(at least I'd like to think so), or several others who provided detailed criticism and suggested fixes (you might not have agreed all the issues raised were valid, but I'd like to think we were coherent enough not to get tarred with the same brush as that idiot.
Here's a little trick that I've found works quite well.
Can I just point out that it is kinda ironic that the guy saying that in the meme was wrong to say it?Both were true. I found some (not all) of the criticisms demoralizing, and it was worse because some (not all) had very valid points.
But so what? Why are we still harping on this? All these posts have an implicit "Brandon, you need to get over it" tone to them... but it's been three weeks! I've written 20k words for another story, published 14k more (to reasonably good response), set out a migration path for a $100k server upgrade, cooked a pair of high-quality steaks to perfection, beat a really frustrating fight in Divinity: Original Sin, *and* got a flying ERPPC kill shot in my VPR-B (though not both at the same time, obviously).
I'm over it. Life is good.
Like one of every two people gets immediately addicted to Methamphetamine upon their first use of it. It's really insidious that way. So I actually found nothing at all unreasonable about the drug addict's behavior or backstory.
The way I understand it, Odin wanted to fight the darn thing himself, but just in case (don't recall why exactly), he checked what was supposed to happen if he didn't intervene, and found out about Taylor/Khepri.
That was the opposite impression that I had.
He isn't handing Taylor victory on a silver platter, nor is he fixing all of her problems by giving her a 'nicer' form of power. Instead, he gave her power that she can literally prove herself Worthy of, and with it still the potential to defeat the Entity.
The Taylor here doesn't know it, but in essence, that's what's happening. The goal is still the same, as is her resolve to see it through, but this time, by virtue of Odin's intervention, she has a chance to do it differently.Speck 30.7 said:
If you disregard all the people who had to suffer and/or die in the process of Taylor's journey to defeat Scion, up to and including the people who were directly killed while under Khepri's control? Then yes, Odin is an irresponsible bag of dicks placing one girl's happiness over the safety of a big chunk of alternate Earths.
Alright? Though in that same vein, 'Macbeth' sounded good the way Shakespeare wrote it, but that doesn't stop me from disparaging it by saying it boils down to, "Guy gets a nice promotion and his scheming bitch of a wife uses it to make him a worse person."
Could be, sure. I mean, I think it would be a bit weird if we heard from the start of a story that our protagonist was fate-ordained to achieve a Good End, so I don't think that would be a good scene. But if it sets your mind at ease, I'm 100% sure that if Odin thought it necessary, he could just go after Scion himself if he saw that this slice of alt-Earths was suddenly worse off for his decision to give Taylor a kind of power that won't destroy her.
It's true that you need super-durability in order to use super-strength without breaking yourself. In fact, you need your super-durability to be at least as great as your super-strength.
It's also dead. Which begs the question of why people feel the need to keep dregging it up out of the archive.This is great
The story itself might be dead, but the actual discussion directly relevant to the content of the story (when the author's mentioned that he might at one point get around to rebooting it one day after addressing what problems he's seen of it) is actually still helpful, since it given him more of an idea of what kind of interests and concerns people may have.
It's not much of a dead thread if I found it on front page.
