Talen Lee

The review system should replace the rating system in player's attempts to find things. I know it does for me - I've lost all faith in the rating system for making sure good content bubbles to the top.

Oh, yeah, the KB is a matter of personal taste. I don't have Thorn Burst at all, 'frex.

SO HEY

About that reviewing thing today? Turns out today my internet chose to die. Griiiindteeeth.

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With the new expansion, "Going Rouge", I believe a market merger is inevitable now.

Discuss.

[/ QUOTE ]Rogue.

Even disregarding thorntrops the set is good for AOE. Fling comes up nice and early, Ripper is easily filled up by a control archetype, and burst can be used with impunity. The only problem I feel the set has is the animation times.

It's a corner case anyway. Some of the feedback is useful (things like typos), some of it isn't - the person for whom the arc is written has some of the gaps pre-filled (one of the joys of writing for a predetermined audience). I doubt there are going to be many people in this situation,

Alright, but, let me please draw your attention to the rest of the thread: How likely do you think it is that I will like a comedy arc?

Going through the thread, refreshing my list, gunna sit down and get some of these reviews out shorlty.

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I'm sorry but there's nothing increasing ambiguity here. There just isn't. Language is ambiguous by nature, about the only useful thing deconstructionism has to say.

[/ QUOTE ]In essence, you're saying 'because people can misunderstand me, I am under no obligation to say things that are understandable.'

Fair enough I suppose, but this is not me wanting you to write a way that satisfies me. This is me offering a suggestion for how you could go about writing something more meaningful than simply providing a link to TVTropes.

Though, since I am curious about a misapprehension I think I was labouring under: Have you worked as an editor? I thought that you'd mentioned something along those lines months past, regarding Everquest. I think trolls were involved.

Ah, I can post again.

Just an FYI, you reviewed an arc that was both in beta, and written for a specific audience. It makes sense to her - though I'm glad you found use for it. I'll go over it and double-check any changes I can make.

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What you are saying is no one should use the term, ever.

No.

[/ QUOTE ]No, I'm saying that if you want to use a term repeatedly for a specific problem inside mission arc reviews, either coin a term, or use something with that agreed-upon definition without increasing ambiguity. You know, communicating an idea with words. I'm sure there's a page about that on tvtropes.

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I don't see the definintional issues being any different here than they are in fanfic. No one in fanfic circles agrees on what a Mary Sue is, either. If I were critiquing fanfic I'd still have to pick a definition and stick to it.

[/ QUOTE ]Then maybe you shouldn't pick up a term with a dozen definitions, attach ANOTHER definition to it, and then wield it. It smacks of a desire to create a lexicon - not in the natural, communal way that actual lexicons are created, but in the nasty imposing fashion of a fascist editor.

And that's why the term should be confined to the place it best belongs - in the analysis of fanfiction. And if you're going to redefine the term for your own purposes, come up with a better term that doesn't come with a massive amount of baggage and its own Tvtropes category.

Part of the problem is using a fanfiction literary term to outline a roleplaying entity. One needs to justify its existence within a narrative, the other causes the narrative to happen. Approaching writing story arcs as if they're the same genre and subject to the same rules as the many different forms of literature and fanfiction is just creating a gigantic template of failures with which you can stamp anything you dislike.

Interesting.

You want to field this one, Dragonslay?

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One day they might do it, Geko, but every day they don't is another wonderful day where I get to watch a silly idea be ignored.

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I have to agree with Evil on this one, even tho I feel heros and villains should be seperate, the idea itself isn't silly.

[/ QUOTE ]Yes, it is.

The roles are multiplied on both sides. Completely sideless content and archetypes squanders flavour and reduces the game into a grey paste. Worse, it will further exacerbate power discrepancy.

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I know. I'd like to think that because the writing in my arc is about twice as good as all but the very best stuff I've seen in the MA, it shouldn't need it. But alas, it does. And that's where the ego kicks in.

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I've seen your writing. Your ego is quite possibly correct.


... it still needs a good deflating now and again, but... yeah.

[/ QUOTE ]That's because there are moments I transcend the line between 'I am a better writer than this person' and into 'I am a better person than this person.'

I did not intend my comments to be seen as passive aggressive. I am unfortunately, for all the superiority and hubris with which I conduct myself, exceptionally bad at self-promotion, possibly due to the fact that my daddy never loved me*. I do appreciate the effort, though, and I hope this side project flourishes, but right now I'm going to feel quite guilty for a bit, okay?

* joke.

One day they might do it, Geko, but every day they don't is another wonderful day where I get to watch a silly idea be ignored.

I'd poop the party but it seems just pointless by this stage.

Oh, and Jack, I think you're confusing the word 'unique' with the word 'extinct.'

Oh for goodness' sake.

X and Y are ways that Mary Sues incarnate, this does not mandate that all instances of X or Y are Mary Sues. There is writing abundant on the subject of Mary Sues, and Venture links to TVtropes enough. How hard could it be to look it up if it matters so much?

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I'd love it if Dimensional Shift were replaced with a power called Gravity Well. Target based toggle that has a reverse repel effect. All enemies in the area are drawn closer to that target.

Gets them in niiiiice and close for some AoE havok.

[/ QUOTE ]This also 'doesn't work' because of the way repel currently works.

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The idea of making the power a low end cost toggle, though, is a darn good one.

[/ QUOTE ]It also, at last check, can't work. You apply the toggle, the entity phases out, they can't be affected by the toggle, they phase back in.

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Remember when wormhole was single target?

[/ QUOTE ]No. And I don't because that happened before I started to play the game. Three years ago.

"This episode of Ed, Edd and Eddie completely fails to properly represent the school curriculum as it's exhibited in the state of Colorado. How can they publish this crap?!"