Subject: Oh! It's out! I'd forgotten! *grabbyhands*
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Posted on: 2016-02-14 05:47:00 UTC
I was waiting for it for years—and then I forget. >_
Subject: Oh! It's out! I'd forgotten! *grabbyhands*
Author:
Posted on: 2016-02-14 05:47:00 UTC
I was waiting for it for years—and then I forget. >_
(I hope this thread isn't too early)
So, I finished Games Wizards Play last night, and I figured here's as good a place as any to dump thoughts.
It was good. I wouldn't class GWP as the best YW book ever, but I definitely had fun reading it. It has a slightly smaller scope than some of the previous books, which is, I think, a good thing. (You can't save the universe or an entire planet every book, after all.) My only complaint is that having That One directly involved in building up some of the dramatic tension made me expect more conflict in the climax. But that's a minor quibble.
I'd also really like to read some S'reee/Hw'iish fic right now.
Spoilers below and rot13.
Fb, Avgn naq Xvg ner bssvpvnyyl n pbhcyr. Vg gbbx gra obbxf naq frireny fubeg fgbevrf jbegu bs "jvyy gurl, jba'g gurl" gb trg gurer, ohg V guvax vg'f tbbq guvf svanyyl unccrarq (fvapr V'ir orra fuvccvat gurz sbe n juvyr abj). Nyfb, 'Zryn, cbfggvat gung ivqrb jnf n onq vqrn. Lbh arrq gb eha sbe vg.
Ebfunha vf onpx! Vf gurer zhpu zber gb fnl? (vao4 Qvnevar/Ebfunha eryngvbafuvc qenzn va obbx 11).
Uneel naq Arynvq ner fpnel jura gurl grnz hc gb ent ba Qvne, jub cebonoyl qrfreirf vg whfg n yvggyr.
V nterr jvgu Xvg. Craa gbgnyyl unq vg pbzvat. Ba gur bgure unaq, gurl obgu qrfreirq gurve ernzvatf sebz Vevan.
V guvax rirelbar fbeg bs rkcrpgrq gung crbcyr jbhyq or nfxvat Avgn naq pb sbe nhgbtencuf. Gurl unir qbar n ybg bs vzcerffvir fghss, nsgre nyy. Naq Qnvevar unq gur orfg erfcbafr gb Zrueanm'f nhag gelvat gb chyy n "qba'g lbh xabj jub V nz?" ba ure. Zbgure gb gur Zbovyrf, vaqrrq.
So, cousins, what'd y'all think?
I was waiting for it for years—and then I forget. >_
I was waiting for it for years—and then I forget. >_<
I am looking forward to reading it, though!
And that is one of the more clever guards against spoilers that I've seen. ^^ Nice work on that.
ret13 was one of the oldest spoiler guards on the Internet. It was one of the two main spoiler guards on Usenet back in the 70s (the other was inserting a bunch of page break characters so the news reader wouldn't immediately show the spoiler). It has the nice property that encoding and decoding are the same operation (shift the alphabet halfway around) and that most Unix systems (including modern Linux, but I don't know about Mac OS X) had a "rot13" program to do it for you. (If they didn't, it was a one-line shell command).
- Tomash, nerding about about computer history