Project 132 (beta)

How was the latest update? If you just plain didn't like it, leave me a review below.

  • Eh, neutral.

    Votes: 1 50.0%

  • I liked it.

    Votes: 1 50.0%

  • It was awesome!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
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Re: Project 132 - PART 3: PLANETARY DEVASTATION HAS BEGUN

Well, it's not like the fantasy elements disappeared...the ultimate end of the universe was bought upon by the Seven.
 
Re: Project 132 - PART 3: PLANETARY DEVASTATION HAS BEGUN

i'm just saying that it's weird to have any connection at all to the real world, at least in my opinion
 
Re: Project 132 - PART 3: PLANETARY DEVASTATION HAS BEGUN

But that connection was already there, what with all the talk of inherited memories and the modern technology and all. The universe reboot was to explain that.
 
Re: Project 132 - PART 3: PLANETARY DEVASTATION HAS BEGUN

There's a difference between random technology kicking about and jamming a clumsy mashup of unrealistic speculative fiction and magic realism into the middle of a high fantasy. Better to just let the tech be part of the charm of the fantasy world (and avoid the indulgence of memories altogether, perhaps), rather than making some contrived and plot-irrelevant explanation (which doesn't actually work, seeing as the universe being destroyed means the technology goes bye-bye too).
 
Re: Project 132 - PART 3: PLANETARY DEVASTATION HAS BEGUN

The tech was destroyed and remade based on the inherited memories deal. That's why you still have people walking around with katanas and fighting monsters when all the foundations of the modern world is there, because they already know how to make it.

I apologize if it was too much of a mood/genre shift, but I had assumed that I'd placed in enough foreshadowing and reasons to ask questions about why everything was so similar, yet so different.

Despite that background, the story goes on as it did before from here. I'm sorry you didn't like it, but all I can really do at this point is explain.
 
Re: Project 132 - PART 3: PLANETARY DEVASTATION HAS BEGUN

Based Sora said:
but all I can really do at this point is explain.
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Or, y'know, go back and edit.

When people seem to unanimously disagree with a choice I've made with a story, I fix it, and the story always turns out better for it. That's the joy of Internet publishing - the feedback is fast and plentiful, and it's easier to go back and edit (aside from the regular time constraints): take advantage of that, instead of getting all defensive yet again.


When you've got magic powers and floating islands and physical gods in a world based on an Internet community, no one is seriously going to ask why there are cellphones being used alongside katanas - it's high fantasy, it's schozotech, it's cool, we just go with it. If this was a hard sci-fi story, sure, explain away - provided you actually do proper research about how technology evolves and can offer up an explanation that actually works, of course. But as things are now, sorry, but your explanation's unnecessary and half-baked. Deal.
 
Re: Project 132 - PART 3: PLANETARY DEVASTATION HAS BEGUN

Figured I should butt in, seeing as I'm the guy that "Tuck" is based on. So heya.

Y'all aren't actually the only two who read this thing; I do too and it turns me on. I feel compelled to remind you that Tabs already wrote a thing, Project Aviate, and while it was also turn-on-inducing, he personally did not enjoy writing it. And that is not fun. It was fun for the people who read it because most of them didn't know, but it certainly wasn't fun for him.

Neither would going back and changing stuff to compensate for two people. Criticism is one thing, but that's a tad bit ridiculous. If you don't like it, you don't have to read.
 
Re: Project 132 - PART 3: PLANETARY DEVASTATION HAS BEGUN

YE360 said:
If you don't like it, you don't have to read.
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and in one fell swoop, you forfeited the right to partake in this debate.
 
Re: Project 132 - PART 3: PLANETARY DEVASTATION HAS BEGUN

Actually, as the author, I'd say he does.

I'd sooner have no readers than write another story I don't want to write.

If this turn is too much for the people reading, I apologize, but I'm not changing the plot for anybody. Sorry Walkazo, Javelin, but if this little bit of backstory ruins the story for you, then that's just the price I'll pay, because this is my story and I'm going to take the plot in whatever direction I like. I don't mind fixing errors and shit, but at some point I want to be able to flex as much creative muscles as I want, and I'm not going to let two complaints change the direction of a story I've been planning for months.

I can't tell you how to read Project 132, but you can't tell me how to write it, either.
 
Re: Project 132 - PART 3: PLANETARY DEVASTATION HAS BEGUN

whoa whoa whoa

i was just a little unhappy about this, i didn't say it ruined the story

neither do i support going back and retconning the story

i just said that in my opinion, i didn't enjoy it

keep in mind that in my opinion, i didn't really like project aviate quite as much as typical tragedy, but i still thought it was pretty good
 
Re: Project 132 - PART 3: PLANETARY DEVASTATION HAS BEGUN

I'm glad you didn't utterly despise it, because while Typical Tragedy got kind of stretched and slightly stressful, it was always something I enjoyed writing. PAviate was, in short, a pandering effort, and it losts all its novelty to me within the first few chapters.