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    Two Sentence Story (Horror, humor, tragedy, anything!)

    "When we married, the oath was that we would remain together 'till death do us part'. Fortunately, I became a vampire."
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    General chat thread

    Sounds dystopian. "We raise children in a VR pod where they are taught to be quiet, obedient, to not expect or want rewards, and to not speak with others. Ideal for use as slaves, buy one now."
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    favorite quotes or quotes you created yourself

    The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation. --- "A strong place and...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    I expect many people do care, if for no other reason than they don't find "lolis" appealing in the first place. I can't count the number of times I've come across loli art and thought to myself "this would be really hot if she was about ten years older". Also, in writing style most fanfic...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Guy suffers brain damage and spends years in a coma, wakes up with clairvoyant and precognitive abilities. I don't really recall much more, it's been literally decades since I read it. I do recall it being pretty good, though. Probably available from a library, King isn't an obscure author.
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Reminds me of Stephen King's The Dead Zone, whose protagonist is a precognitive who foresees that a particular politician will cause a global nuclear war, and is eventually pushed into the situation of trying to kill the politician or letting it happen.
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Yes. They don't just want characters to act like psychopaths; they want characters to act like low-functioning psychopaths. The sort of people who end up in prison or dead at a young age because they aren't just ruthless, but stupidly ruthless. Because openly murdering and backstabbing people...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Yes. Psychopaths lack convictions, but not all evil people are psychopaths. Speaking of psychopaths, a "fanfic trope I hate" would be the one where a protagonist being "rational" or "intelligent" is equated with them being psychopathic. Whether it's by the author, or commentators who scream at...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    It's a "reality is unrealistic" thing. It happens in real life, but in a story it would be denounced as absurd.
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    Fandoms you'd like to see more fanfiction for?

    Another vote for Chronicles of Amber. Also, I'd like to see fanfic in Alan Dean Foster's Humanx setting.
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Writing someone as being extremely charismatic suffers from the same problem that writing somebody as extremely intelligent; it's hard to write somebody with more of it than the writer themselves has. And most writers aren't silver-tongued devils any more than they are geniuses. So trying to...
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    Announcement on Rule 3 and Doujin/Hentai Websites

    Yeah. People tend to not take it that seriously because even most people who think copyright is a good idea know that the way it's set up right now is an illogical, corrupt, biased mess. I've read in the past legal recommendations that you should simply assume you are breaking the law, because...
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    Announcement on Rule 3 and Doujin/Hentai Websites

    It's a rule that people don't actually care about*; even the people enforcing it frame the issue as "we're doing this for legal reasons", not because they actually care about the issue much if at all. So people are treating it like an inconvenience to be avoided or a logic puzzle to be solved...
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    Announcement on Rule 3 and Doujin/Hentai Websites

    What they said. "Sig" is short for "signature", used as a verb.
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    Announcement on Rule 3 and Doujin/Hentai Websites

    People reflexively tend to try to rules lawyer rules they don't like. And while nobody seems to be passionately against it, nobody seems to rate this rule any higher than "I don't like it but understand why it's needed" either. So people are idly poking at it.
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    Announcement on Rule 3 and Doujin/Hentai Websites

    If you said that to me my reaction would be "Bhwah?!" At any rate the link being broken as described doesn't seem like it would result in much of a hardship to search for the original anyway. As said, they don't want to (and can't anyway) pay for a legion of lawyers to deal with the problem...
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    General chat thread

    Also, early on it's really the only tool they have; an infant can't actually do much to deal with even minor issues beyond "cry for Mommy and Daddy and hope they make it better". By the time they are old and capable enough they could deal with such minor issues themselves (or ask for help in a...
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    Website died for 15 minutes

    Same. It got balky for a bit, then died entirely.
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    Video Games General

    That, to me was one of the big appeals of Morrowind. So many fantasy settings are just some variation of generic European medieval or vaguely Asian design that it was really fun to play in a setting that felt actually exotic. Weird people, weird culture, weird creatures, weird landscape.
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    Power interactions and how you'd play with them

    The Hulk with a Red Power Ring is an old one. The debate being whether it's be a huge power up it a major detriment with it trying to affect his blood and heart against his regen, I considered a long time ago the scenario of a team up between Gallant from Worm and the Hulk, with Gallant zapping...
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