Update Thread 29: Return of the Revenge of the Land Before Time, the Sequel
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Update Thread 29: Return of the Revenge of the Land Before Time, the Sequel
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And Ladies and Gentlemen, the Lizard King has left the building!
Chapter 5 of 'Thank You Very Much' http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30576-5/ ... y+Much.htm 
http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28614-22 ... x+Mack.htm
The Secret Return of Alex Mack ---------------------------------------------------- "Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV 
Well, Batzulger has titled the series the 'Chicago 7', and he's up to 5 of them
Creeper, Blue Beetle, Black Scorpion, Konnycha, and now The Lizard King. 2 still to come. 8) Edit, also, he's completed Buffy Summers - Warlord of Marshttp://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30547-21 ... f+Mars.htm ___________________________ "I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin
http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-29970-16 ... +Honor.htm
Batzulger's Cold Honor (Buffy/Red Star) is complete. I suspect he is not actually an AI, he's multiple AI sharing a single pen name. ---------------------------------------------------- "Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV  Quote:Deadpan29 wrote:Okay, I'm up to chapter 18 or so in this now, and I'm not sure what qualities you're talking about. Could you clarify, please? -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
I can't speak for Deadpan29, but I've noticed an increasing degree of thinly veiled authorial screed, though honestly it's got nothing on Skysaber/Prefect Lionheart even in his tamer periods. If he'd kept improving like between the beginnings of Chuunin Exam Day and his last previous appearance instead of backsliding, his stuff might look like this now, but that's as far as I'd go.
-- "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
On, agreed, it's nowhere near Skysaber's "any atrocity is acceptable when performed by a hero" thing -- the few things along those lines which happen, Alex guilts and suffers over. I've never seen a Skysaber hero feel any guilt for anything they did, just smug satisfaction.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
I was commenting in passing, not planning on sparking a discussion on this, but as of chapters 20 and 21 Power-Xander has escalated to assassinating the head of Homeland Security. He was an asshole, but it seems to me that the level of Designated Hero morality and Author Tract writing in the story are climbing.
Personally, I am reminded of Skysaber's tamer periods. Also I compared it to the point of "starting to go off the rails" in those stories, as in that point where it's still a good story over all but there are hints that it may be all downhill from here. ---------- No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.  Shepherd Wrote:http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-29970-16 ... +Honor.htmBatzulger's Cold Honor (Buffy/Red Star) is complete. I suspect he is not actually an AI, he's multiple AI sharing a single pen name. Only one of me last I checked...(Otherwise I need to start splitting the rent and utilities with myself).
--------------------------------Je ne suis pas une Intelligence Artificielle Turing. Je suis Charlie. Quote:Deadpan29 wrote:I have to disagree -- although the act was heinous, Alex was sickened and torn up afterward, unable to sleep (although some of that was the First Evil, apparently, too) and doubting herself and her own morals. This is not the behavior of a Skysaber hero; one of these would blithely say something along the lines of "he opposed me, he deserved it, let's get cake" and not give a second thought to the matter. If anything, Alex's response is a deconstruction of the Skysaber-style all-powerful insert character. Skysabers are essentially psychopaths convinced they're heroes. Alex is hero worrying that she's become a psychopath. -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
The 'how dare you (insert political opinions I despise here) freaks dare to criticise my genius and accurate portrayal of Bush and his minions, I'm going elsewhere with my literary genius' routine he pulled a while back was around the point I stopped reading.
Quote:Matrix Dragon wrote:He didn't leave because of bad reviews. A Moderator "Quarantined" his story, basically unlisting it, and blocking it from viewers. He was then informed he had to remove the scene in question in order to get his story back. I think he was quite justified in removing the story in protest at that point.
Maybe it's just that I have a "Yeah, whatever" view of politics in fiction anyway (barring real aberrations like the Draka or whatever the Cenobite expies from SWEU are called) but the only part of the whole thing that ever seemed to be "going too far" in that sequence were Tony Stark's internal monologue, which a) is Tony Stark professional opinionated asshole and b) Tony Stark, professional opinionated asshole, in the middle of one of his deepest assholier than thou periods and just beginning to pick up on that fact in the course of the conversation. The meanings attributed to the significant looks and implied communication between other characters in the room are filtered through the veiwpoint character, even if they were laid on a bit strong.
Aside from that, what DreadnoughtVV said. -- "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  ClassicDrogn Wrote:whatever the Cenobite expies from SWEU are called The Yuuzhan Vong, and I'm astonished to realize I never made that connection before.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8525251/15 ... o-Secundus
Effloresco Secundus (Naruto/Potter) http://www.fanfiction.net/s/10571622/1 ... es-We-Play The Games We Play (RWBY/The Gamer) ---------------------------------------------------- "Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV Quote:Matrix Dragon wrote:Ironically, his entirely believable portrayal of the US government in that story is actually much nicer than the way the government often behaves in the Marvel Universe. Let's not forget that Marvel has had the US government build giant killer robots specifically intended to commit genocide.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8096183/63 ... Natural-20
Harry Potter and the Natural 20 (Potter/D&D) ---------------------------------------------------- "Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28614-22 ... x+Mack.htm
The Secret Return of Alex Mack http://www.fanfiction.net/s/10574684/2 ... amer-Files Naruto: The Gamer Files (Naruto/The Gamer) ---------------------------------------------------- "Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7207791/37 ... ake-Dreams
From Fake Dreams (FSN)
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2961893/ ... f-Learning
Mother of Learning (original fantasy setting) ---------------------------------------------------- "Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28404-56 ... Xendra.htm
Xendra (Buffy/Xena) ---------------------------------------------------- "Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
Core Threads (Potter), http://www.fanfiction.net/s/10136172/57/Core-Threads]Chapter 57
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28614-22 ... x+Mack.htm
The Secret Return of Alex Mack ---------------------------------------------------- "Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/10166402/6 ... ding-World
Nanoha Takamachi and the Wizarding World (MGLN/Potter) ---------------------------------------------------- "Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV |
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