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Their wiki account was created on April 3, so that was my best guess of how far back to look.

(I also suffered a temporary bout of stupidity and tried using the search bar yesterday, but I double-checked properly just now and they're still not there. No harm, no foul, right? >.> )

~Neshomeh

Except now it's not new because of the other one whoopsie!
I did enjoy it, and took a buncha notes as I went through it. Hooopefully they'll be useful?


“Can you stop whining for five seconds?” Charlotte muttered.
- Harry really hadn’t whined that much, until that one time in the story! If he did, then it wasn’t entirely shown in the mission, y’know? Either way, looks a bit early for her to get annoyed!
- The mention of Romania was bloody good, though - pointing out issues in characterisation, what the proper problem is, showing the agents know enough to know how it ought to be


‘We’ve still got badfic from the 1800s’
- What a horrendous clerical nightmare the PPC bureaucracy must be. Good grief.


‘The girl had long shiny jet-black hair. Her skin was so pale, but she still had a bit of pink on her cheeks. Her outfit was pretty tight. She was wearing black pants and a gray sleeveless shirt with a small black jacket to go with it. She was slim and looked really fit. Really fit. Harry realized that he had been staring at her.’
- So this entire bit is sort of, grabbed from the fic. It’s quite a large section, too. There was an opportunity to make her appearance appear, rather, from the agent’s perspective, instead? - it’s not necessarily wrong that that didn’t happen, but it would have been interesting to see, as opposed to just the section from the fic!


‘shoving a finger in her mouth’ - You do these a lot - little small sort of gestures, that break up the dialogue and characterise and all. They’re very good and they’re great details, in general. I should, er, probably work on doing them better, myself.
- ‘steadying Ix against a sudden timeskip.’ - and that, too! That one’s even better, a little thing that sort of, sums up their relationship and all - it is very clear to see that they’re, y’know, in love, even without pointing that out


The blade of grass part was adorable - little sort of slice of life bit, there. Sort of, going into their relationship and all, while also setting up their individual characters, rounding them out. And it was not cheesy or any such!


‘feeble whine’ - aw, poor thing. Good wording, there!


Love the subplot of their relationship sort of, advancing, all the slice of life bits - elevates it over just a mission where they go in and pointlessly kill stuff, y’know? There’s stuff to it, beyond the mission


‘the agents fell to the ground as the scene shot forward to the staircases’
- I sort of had to reread the paragraph, having missed this particular line! Bit of an issue, there - the description’s a bit bland, a bit limited. It’s just… they just fell, y’know? Could have them go ‘clonk’ or go 'ow' or some more description of it, y’know? Especially being a very sort of, actiony bit - it blends in with the rest of the paragraph, and probably shouldn’t


‘A flick of his wand sent ropes tying themselves around the Sue, and she fell over with an indignant screech’
- Bloody love how underwhelming it is - really captures the problems with a Sue faced with, y’know, reality - that difference, as mentioned in the story, between power and skill


Very classic sort of mission, but it was kept from being generic, or from mindlessly following the mission procedure stuff with the little bits of Charlotte and Ix’s relationship. That’s what makes a good spinoff! The focus on the agents, because while everybody has to follow mission procedure, it’s the agents that are unique to you. And of course, it was very well done - it felt very sort of, slice-of-lifey, if that’s a word. The way their relationship builds, and shows the interplay between their two distinct characters, as opposed to them being a Twilight-esque singular mass is real bloody well done, indeed! It doesn’t feel fake or forced or cheesy or anything.
Enjoyable stuff!

Also, that Sue was incredible. Chinky. Bloody chinky. Good grief.

Or did you look them up some other way?

- Tomash

(who should scrape for the altchives soon again)

You're back! :D

Reaction to the Fandom News:
That's good to hear that it's a good movie with a diverse cast! I personally really hate it when a canon work focuses so much on having a diverse/minority cast that it ruins the plot. (Which is Steven Universe, in my opinion. Even some members of the team that works on it are radfem jerks. But anyway.)

Reaction to the Silly News:
Those story summaries are just the best... I love it when an AI has its derpy moments.

Reaction to the Serious News:
That's a pretty interesting story, haha! A video game forum saved the day! Well done, gamers!

Reaction to the Not News:
That's actually an interesting AU-crossover-thingy! I wonder who the other folks would be? (By the way, I can't see the photos. I think Photobucket has a new policy and that's why, because the things that are in place of your photos say stuff about 3rd-party hosting and have Photobucket links in them.)

-Twistey

Miriam can turn into a fox and control gravity to some extent (only one object at a time, though), Erika can temporarily turn into a ghost of some sort (but it takes a lot of concentration to make it activate when she wants it to, and it turns on automatically whenever she is overcome with strong emotion), and Amber is essentially an Earthbender with a little less versatility (I decided that there were a few of those uses that she doesn't need.) That's why I put Miriam and Amber together in DOGA - they'd be a great help to the department because of their powers. I keep track of what powers my characters have and what uses they can use them for using links to the Superpower Wiki, so that I know exactly what they can and cannot do.


-Twistey
Superpower Wiki: http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Superpower_Wiki

... I'm pretty sure it's all incorrect. The various gender-neutral pronoun sets that have been developed don't technically exist as actual words, and 'they/them/their' is exclusively for groups of people. So, yes, if you try it in an essay, you basically will get docked for it no matter what you do.

Gonna read this!

Well, the actual name change is multiple search-replaces over a lot of files, which generally involves hammering at your website with sed or perl.

What I'd do is somehow put together a list of photobucket imgur mappings, and then just programatically apply all of them, which I don't think is too hard, but I can elaborate on that if you'd like.

Now, as to the files thing, apparently imgur lets (or used to let, not sure) you download albums as a .zip. Don't know if that generalizes. There's also a program I stumbled into of unknown usefulness. (Come to think of it, getting all the imgur URLs and/or the images hosted therein might be the trickiest part of the operation).

Now, for the comparison stuff, there's a good many programs that offer duplicate file detection, and, failing that, run through both sets and compute hashes (sha1sum [filenames] is your friend here) to find duplicates. This won't work if imgur doesn't faithfully preserve the things you uploaded, so let's hope they don't.

I suspect this might assume access to tools or knowledge you don't have on hand (given that the answer is roughly "how I would do it"), so please feel free to ask lots of questions. It also might not make too much sense, since I'm trying to get in a reply before I head off to work.

- Tomash
- Tomash

I have 300-400 images across Photobucket which I need to shift somewhere less obnoxious - but Imgur doesn't use human-readable filenames. Is there any way to set things up to automatically convert the Photobucket names to Imgur ones in my HTML documents? When I write it out like that I have to assume no - unless there's some way to compare image files on the computer to ones hosted on Imgur?

Hmm... actually, at a pinch I could upload to Imgur and then re-download (does it have a bulk download function? I can't find one. :( ). But I'd still need something that could compare the images under the filenames and find the ones that matched.

And I don't know how to do that. :(

hS

You're back! I'm glad. ^_^

Oh, yay, the Spider-Man movie isn't terrible! I'll have to go see it soon.

-Alleb

Please have a black-hole chocolate cake with raspberry coulis.

... having to click past six or seven different adverts just to see your bucket?

For shame, Neshomeh, for shame.

hS is actually really annoyed by this, SIGH

I think that breaks a bit of my website, too. Nothing important, IIRC, but I guess I don't get to have character image galleries as part of their profiles anymore. Siiigh. This was, like, the whole point of Photobucket. If they were having revenue issues, they might have started with fixing their ads so they don't slow the site to a crawl and make it utterly impossible to do anything in a timely fashion. *grumblemutter*

~Neshomeh

If we both end up in the same voice channel at some point today, I'd be happy to sing you one of the Birthday Songs. (No guarantees about which one.) But in the meantime, have a cake! It's red velvet cake because of reasons, but you can swap it out for a cheesecake if you prefer.

What's my name is doing here? Nameless Admin, pretty please?

And they want an easy way out. I mean, suddenly charge a kidney for a service like that? They cannot not tank afterr that,that's impossible.

Working?

hS

I don't care too much about grammatically-correct pronouns in these cases.

But it probably would, yes.

That's what I've been using to post images on the Board and it's not given me any problems... yet.

The best I know off the top of my head is Imgur. It's free, as far as I know?