Here's a topic I'd like to see explored a bit:
What fanfic authors do you continue to (re)read and enjoy despite massive problems in their work?  By which I mean anything from systematic inability to grasp spelling or grammar to author rants and imploding storylines?
Let me cite a couple of mine.
Skysaber.  Absurd SI antics, effortless defanging of enemies, authorial rants appearing in the mouths of his characters like clockwork, stories that never get finished, and a combination of paranoia and thin skin that results in his abandoning the Net every couple years over some slight.  But when he's on his game, he's pretty damned good and a lot of fun to read.
Fred Herriott, aka "Pyeknu" on FF.net.  Melodrama, melodrama, melodrama.  Long, rambling sentences that fill up entire paragraphs -- with multiple internal digressions -- and (frequent parentheticals), punctuated with EMPHASIZED words.  An obsession with punishing every character he feels has sinned in canon against his protagonist, sometimes with long lectures delivered to them on how bad they were.  An inability to write a story without inserting the Nendo-kata and his other original creations into their plots.  Mary Sue-level powerups to his favorite characters, to the point that no matter how he escalates their opposition, they always triumph in a flash.  But he has great ideas and despite their faults the stories are fun.  (Except when they get a little too into the "punishing" thing.)
So, who do you hate to love?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

The Truth Beneath the Rose by Within Temptation



Give me strength to face the truth

The doubt within my soul

No longer I can justify

The bloodshed in his name

Is it a sin to seek the truth, the truth beneath the rose?

Pray with me so I will find the gate to Heaven's door

I believed it would justify the means

It had a hold over me

Blinded to see

The cruelty of the beast

Here is the darkest side of me

(Forgive me my sins)

The veil of my dreams

Deceived all I have seen

Forgive me for what I have been

(Forgive me my sins)

Pray for me 'cause I have lost my faith in holy wars

Is paradise denied to me 'cause I can't take no more?

Has darkness taken over me

Consumed my mortal soul?

All my virtues sacrificed

Can Heaven be so cruel?

I believed it would justify the means

It had a hold over me

(Forgive me my sins)

Blinded to see

The cruelty of the beast

Here is the darkest side of me

(Forgive me my sins)

The veil of my dreams

Deceived all I have seen

Forgive me for what I have been

(Forgive me my sins)

I'm hoping, I'm praying

I won't get lost between two worlds

For all I've seen,

The truth lies in between

Give me the strength to face the wrong that I have done

Now that I know

The darkest side of me

How can blood be your salvation

And justify the pain

That we have caused throughout the times

Will I learn what's truly sacred

Will I redeem my soul

Will truth set me free

(Forgive me my sins)

Blinded to see

The cruelty of the beast

Here is the darkest side of me

(Forgive me my sins)

The veil of my dreams

Deceived all I have seen

Forgive me for what I have been

(Forgive me my sins)

Summons a version of Rits post-overcoming Gendo's influence - not the most stable individual, but a good computer or bio scientist and the song is long enough at a little over 7min for her to have a chance at accomplishing something. Might also work for Rei II or III.

- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Okay, with Greece unable to find a government to administer what is definitely bitter medicine and with Italy following next, it looks like the Germans and French are seriously thinking of restructuring the euro zone into a a more smaller membership..
The CNBC report

So what happens next? : Some probable scenarious
Which comes to my next question? What will be the effect here in the U.S and elsewhere?
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

While I think the final mission needs a few tweaks, maybe a little more dialogue to explain things in the boss fight...

Um...

CRAP. This is not good at all.

...is now available in replica format.  I just wish I had $3000...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Here's a new thread.

Here's the old one.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

A leave of Absense cuz my computer is in the shop for repairs.
While using it today, out of the blue every program shut down and I got a bunch of Error messages that looked too shiny to be Vitsa's normal "opps" message.
So I rebooted my computer.... and it wouldn't load. aprently the files for starting up got corrupted. >.

No, that isn't a typo. Aaron Diaz writes the webstrip Dresden Codak - that's the first "DC".

On his blog, he's looked at what happened in comics this summer - that's the second "DC" - and thought, as almost any creative person is wont to do, that he could do something better.

So he did. And I like what he created - it's an internally-consistent world that's both fun and believable.

Three posts get you the entire universe (less Batman's villains, who haven't been rebooted): the Justice League, the Legion of Doom, and Batman.

(I wonder whether I could talk my gaming group into playing in this universe...?)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

It has been 8 since I had to buy a new vehicle and mine and that one was a '91. I bought a 2011 Kia Rio LX and I went to from Birmingham, Al. to Atlanta Ga. I was traversing hill country and going at an average speed of 80 mph. It came at to a gas mileage of 30.7 mpg. I'm impressed.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

People had been saying Cain didn't have any experience in politics. I disagree. Look at what his campaign has done since the story about his alleged sexual harassment in the 90's broke out.

1. Deny it ever happen.
2. Backtrack and say it could had happen, but he didn't remember the details.
3. Accuse the accusers.
4. Accuse another Republican for breaking the story.
5. Accuse of being lynched - i.e. play the race card
6. Finally, put up a statement saying that they are moving on ..i.e. the campaign  doesn't what to talk anymore about it.
Who said that he wasn't presidential material?   
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell