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The authors could just post their unedited stories on the Board, and the betas could leave their feedback as replies. That way, we'd have a full record of the whole process. No technical difficulties there -- posting on the Board anonymously is so easy, people do it by accident! I've seen similar structures for writing exercises work really well elsewhere on the Internet mostly in NSFW settings.

--Key

1. Hang on, I was mainly thinking of Derik when I wrote that, but he's less of a character replacement and more of a "side character drawing from something else that doesn't belong here", right? Yep, you are right, considering that the Suethor tweaks the character into someone new.
   
   2. Yep... However, with OCs, you get a lot more freedom than you do with portraying canons, right? So since character replacements would be somewhere in the middle... do you see my logic?
   
   3. I'm going to go look him up on the Wiki. He sounds interesting.
   
   4. Already looked this one up on the Wiki, also interesting. Haha, the "seriousface hero types" thing. Great.
   
   -Twistey

To the Fandom News:
That would never be allowed today! Everything has to be extremely political, and of course you aren't allowed to speak at a normal voice level because that's unacceptable! No! You must use the CAPS LOCK OF RAGE AND EXCLAMATION POINTS TO SHOW THE WORLD HOW WRONG THEY ARE!!11!!!!42!(/sarcasm. Typed yelling: not just for fanfic anymore. Argh.)

Anyway, about the movie... Holy crud! Riding a T-rex?! Sorry guys, but honestly, if I were to see that, I would do an immediate face-heel turn out of awe. Farpin' yes! (Ahh, why'd they have to ruin it by making another politician the villain?)

Well, that just about made my day, especially since it reminds me of Wolfenstein 3D, which involves Hitler in a flipping mechsuit. Good old Wolfenstein, those developers at iD Software were such goofballs.

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To the Silly News:

That is cool! My science class has us do "current event" reports every Friday, so I need to do something about that system. The music, as well... I need to watch that sometime soon.

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To the Serious News:

No comment, as usual.

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To the Not News:

This is just like so many name generators... Have all y'all ever been to Seventh Sanctum? The generators combined with the commenting feature is just great, since you get to see what silly stuff other people have received and how they've interpreted them. Great site, great site. As for the names, I'm guessing that the "first last" formatting of the first and last names are "Ivy Muriel Savage" and "Peter King"? That makes it seem less crazy, as Savage and King are both normal last names, and in fact last names of famous people (Adam Savage of Mythbusters and Stephen King.)

Yes, somebody needs to write that story! It'd be a weird crossover, but I guess the reasons for writing it here, as well as the fact that most of us are likely to do it decently, are forgivable.

-Twistey

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Afterword:
...It's kind of funny that I said "Farpin' yes!" at the T-rex thing, considering that my friend sent me this article a while ago... I'm just gonna leave this here...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/04/how-a-fart-killed-10-000-people

If it's something I invented, I'd rather people not waltz in and take it over unless I've said that's okay. That category, I think, covers Plort and the Friday Forums, but... not much else.

The other stuff? I've always been happy for other people to start the Badfic Games or the Shipfest. I've flat-out said on multiple occasions that I wish more people would start Fill the Plothole. I was delighted when someone volunteered to run the Hunger Games, though I ended up with it anyway. What else is there? Well, the Monthlyish Writing Challenges are mine, but the concept of a writing challenge isn't.

If you're not sure? Ask. As a rule, I do not bite.

hS

With the Scutters...





And featuring one of my favourite episodes, The Inquisitor:



=]

So, from this thread, we seem to have a split on Scapegrace's behavior. On one side, we have Nesh and hS (and others, probably), who think Scape is sincere in her apologies and genuinely working hard on her control issues (which do appear to be improving). On the other side, we have Ekyl (and probably others), who think that Scape is not actually sorry for anything she does (and is otherwise insincere) and that she keeps repeating the same behavior over and over again (there seems to be an implied "lack of improvement" there).

This points to a split in the community, and I'd prefer that be avoided. It also looks like this is a case of different people interpreting the same words and actions in noticeably different ways. This makes it seem rather similar to the criticisms leveled at Ekyl in this thread.

So, I'd like to propose the same thing that happened to Ekyl. That is, someone (either someone who thinks Scape is being insincere or can coherently articulate why her words might be interpreted that way) should give Scape some community-interaction concrit so that she doesn't accidentally keep building up this negative image of her that some people appear to have (if that's what's happening).

That concrit doesn't have to be on the Board or otherwise public, but if the community split I described is real (and not just one or two people who don't like Scape), it should happen.

- Tomash

GRAB THE CHAIR, BOYS! WE'VE GOT ANOTHER BUCKET-KICKER!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ_ZQkV58Cc


Happy Birthday, dude! Always a pleasure to be your friend!

... And everyone else should:



The Tenth Wars have got underway! At least, the filming has; given the turnaround for the Ninth Wars, I think we can expect it sometime this autumn. Can the green-striped monster of the West Midlands defend its crown? Will the disc of doom from Reading shred more of its opposition? Might the rocket-powered house robot launcher from Birmingham Abergele have a new target this series? Will Foxic do anything?

All will be revealed, along with the new-look arena and a full cast of fighting machines from all over the country and beyond, because this. Is. ROBOT WARS!

I'm a little excited. Can you tell? =]

I get it, I really do. One time, when I was a stupid kid, one of my stupid kid friends convinced me to throw rocks at seagulls so that we could catch one, take it home, nurse it back to health, and have it as a pet. This was a terrible idea, and I'm pretty sure I knew it at the time, but I did it anyway because she was my best friend, I worshiped her, and I guess I was feeling extra-gullible that day. Thank goodness, we sucked at throwing rocks and didn't actually hit anything.

But, as it turns out, doing a bad thing in order to do a good thing is never smart, and I expect will almost always fail miserably.

~Neshomeh

So, when it comes to the stuff you usually do, like the PPC Hunger Games or the Friday Forums, you not only wouldn't object to people taking them over from you, but would be happy if they did?

If someone were taking something that's "yours" (in the "people think of this as hS's thing" sense), would you prefer they get in touch with you first or just go for it?

On a general note, as I said in a different context downthread, folks, this current state of affairs is very unfair to hS. We're starting to treat him as a near-infinite source of "keep the PPC running" juice (or at least it's starting to feel that way), and, as he pointed out, that's not what he is. I don't want to see a "why I'm leaving the PPC" from hS because he's sick and tired of dealing with our crap, and I'm worried that's the path we're headed down. Let's do something about that before it's too late, yeah?

(Then again, I could be completely wrong about this. Feel free to ignore me.)

- Tomash

:P

Gotta make everything fandom related these days. :P

I also bring an offering of local news from my corner of the world. My boss and I actually went and shot some video for a church in this tiny little town of approximately 3000 people, and not long after, well... this happened.

The TL;DR is that the (openly gay) organist admitted to spray-painting a swaistika, "Heil Trump" and "fag church" on the walls of the church back in November.

"I suppose I wanted to give local people a reason to fight for good, even if it was a false flag . . . I of course realize now, this was NOT the way to go about inspiring activism."

Yeah, maybe not.

There's camera footage of the whole thing, apparently, which is how they know the car was driving away from the officer, not reversing "aggressively" toward him, when he fired. There doesn't seem to be any question that he done it. IMO, there's no excuse for shooting at a bunch of teens fleeing a busted party, however drunk and rowdy it might have been.

Turns out I was right. System Sounds replied to a comment about the (lack of) tuning with the following:

The notes are slightly out of tune because we used the actual measured orbital frequencies (the resonances have been slightly detuned over the last few billion years, mainly due to tidal forces). You can download the midi file at system-sounds.com in which the notes are quantized to be in tune. We wanted to remain true to the actual system and have as little human input as possible. Thanks for watching!

So that's cool. They also have an example of a system that doesn't have any planets in resonance, the Kepler 90 system, on this page. It's quite a difference! (Herr Wozzeck, this should be right up your alley.)

~Neshomeh

I thought American police had that constitutional 'right to bear and indiscriminately use arms' thing going on? [/sarcasm/sarcasm/sarcasm]

Seriously, I've been horrified by the state of America's police (at least the parts that make the news) for a while now; I hope this is the start of a trend towards fixing that. (And, obviously, if the officer charged is innocent, I hope the trial recognises that and they find who did do it.)

TRAPPIST-1 - I did see a comment somewhere that "they could at least have used an in-tune piano". I had to listen to it at work with the sound down low, so I'm not sure how they picked the notes they used.

hS

Shockingly, a white police officer shot and killed another young black guy last Saturday, in this case a fifteen-year-old kid in the passenger seat of a car leaving a party. Only, in this case, the officer has actually been fired from his job and has been charged with murder. We'll have to see if it sticks, but in the meantime, kudos to the police chief in Balch Springs and to the Dallas County judge who signed the warrant. We can't keep letting people get away with this crap.


The TRAPPIST-1 video is awesome. ^_^ It seems like the notes aren't quite tuned to each other, at least not to my ear, but I guess they picked up the frequencies they used from the planets themselves?

~Neshomeh

No, I'm not performing that song again. I said "once" :-)

HG