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Yey! To another year!

Take something fun. And... since I don't know what would be fun, have a grab-bag of Free Wolfenstein stuff!

-Here's The Digital Antiquarian's article on the original Castle Wolfenstein. It also contains a link to that original game, which works if you have an apple ii emulator. If you don't, here's the 1984 DOS version at the Internet Archive

-If that's not your thing, check out WolfenDoom: Blade of Agony, assuming you haven't already. I know that's not a safe assumption, but hey, it could be fun.

That's... uh... honestly all I've got. Dangit, I don't know Wolf as well as I know Doom...

I'm sorry to say that I largely know you as "that guy whose name appears in the credits at the bottom of Lost Tales," but I'm glad to get to know you better.

Like sci-fi and anime, huh? In that cause, I highly recommend checking out The Irresponsible Captain Tylor, which is an amazing space opera comedy that had me rolling in the aisles.

Hope you enjoy that (assuming you have time to check it out...),
--Thoth

Huh, thanks.

I think a "Multiversal Tour" ride would be pretty cool. Either as a slowish dark ride, or an outdoor tram ride. And it takes the riders through a series of physical sets built to represent locations and scenes from the PPC's main canons. Say, just as example, maybe Aglarond, a TARDIS interior (possibly flying around during a battle in the Time War?), the Department of Mysteries, [an obligatory something to represent anime/manga/Ghibli films, I don't really follow the genre well enough to say], an off-shore kraken attack on the Black Pearl, something out of Shakespeare (a simple speech, perhaps?), the midst of a firefight out of Halo. The exact contents might vary depending on whether it's an indoor or outdoor ride, but I do want it as actual sets, not just video on a screen.

Also, never mind the food shops, let's talk merchandising! We've got to rip off Disney's pin trading thing. We can have department and division flashpatches, chibi agents, all the minis, OFU crests . . .

Oh, and how about a poster shop themed around Bjam? It could have the sorts of banners she makes in canon, plus classy-looking posters of OFU crests and flashpatches, and maybe group portraits of some of the smaller departments' and divisions' staffs, or group portraits of characters by individual authors.

Oh, and around Halloween, we can do scary mazes! Except play it completely straight: no blood or anything, all the Mary Sues in the maze are portrayed as glittery and bright and friendly, and it's just the behavior of the cast members playing the mind-controlled canons that makes it unsettling . . .

I had more thoughts about this than I realized before I started typing! I'll keep thinking over it . . .

—doctorlit has friends who discuss those Disney pins like they're crack cocaine: "I know a guy who's coming down from Michigan next week, and he's bringing some good stuff!"

Have a potatoe(sic). It's like a potato, but better because of the e.

Dangit, I was even going to post about it, but I completely forgot!

-Twistey

1. If you're wondering who the ginger character is, that's my old Scratch avatar. (Or Amazonite, my old Steven Universe sona, in the segment in the comment simulator where she's dancing to "Rasputin" with Peridot.) If you're wondering who the guy in the hoodie is, that's Teenage!Palpatine, a really old OC from the beginnings of my Scratch career. If you're wondering who the guy in the suit is, he's from an actually masterfully made horror game on Scratch that I was a fangirl of at the time.
   
   2. I just now watched the comment simulator (2nd link), and I'd have to say both cringe warning, edge warning, and jumpscare-ish warning. If you want to avoid the jumpscare-ish (it's a Photoshop Flowey laugh), stop at the comment talking about "Team Angel" from an RP I was in. If you want to avoid the edge, stop when the music changes to the Pirate Invasion theme from Terraria. If you want to avoid the cringe, only click on the third link, because that one is just a cake generator.
   
   -Twistey

Probably the most fun birthday of my life, as the Universal trip I mentioned earlier was an early present from my parents.

In celebration of this occasion, let's look at how I celebrated my birthday when I was still a Scratcher, in chronological order...
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/30400446/
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/83038780/
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/125921066/
There's probably a few in between, but I can't remember them... enjoy!

-Twistey

Would the Sues shoot back like the aliens do?

(Wait, I had the best idea! The gift shops for the rides themed around a certain department, and only that specific ride, could sell flash patches for that department. Like this one could sell DMS patches and/or shirts with the flash patch already printed on the sleeve. That'd be so cool!)

-Twistey

It would be so popular and people would love it. I would love it. Enough said.

The Aviator rollercoaster seems a bit problematic, since in order to have the tall drop, it couldn't be indoors, but make it an outdoor ride and you're pretty limited in terms of any story you can tell. Any idea how to solve this conundrum?

For the kids... I don't see any kids' section in this theme park, because the subject of bad fanfiction is pretty nuanced and I would hate to kids glomming on to a super-simplified but wholly wrong version of it that they came up with in their little brains. There's a reason we only allow folks 13 and up on the Board. But then again, there could be a Nursery-themed section, with a focus on the PPC as a universe and little to no mention of Mary Sues, let alone killing them. Or we could, purely for the purpose of the park, come up with some "PPC Jr." sub-universe that presents simple, non-aggressive writing advice for children.

-Twistey

Maybe it could be incorporated into either a shop/restaurant or the line for a ride, because most theme-park-goers, being the way they are, would skip over it otherwise.

-Twistey

(Sorry, that was a reference to "history of japan". Moving on.)

Hey Irish, welcome back! I'm Twistey, and I've been here for about a year and a half. I think of myself as the resident wild-card Boarder, as I've pulled several embarrassing stunts on the Board that I'm... rather glad you missed. I'm currently building my Permission attempt, and I guess that's enough about me.

As for your returnbie present, here's the opposite of a snow globe: a fire globe! Inside is one of my own fireballs, kept burning by magic. You can replace it with fangirl flames, though, because even I know they look cooler. You can also carve a wooden figurine of a chosen badfic author, stick it in here, and watch it burn. Good stress relief.

Anyway, nice to finally meet you after hearing about you for a while, and welcome back to the PPC!

-Twistey

Here's a link to a Book Club Discord - we did that book for our first month. The link expires in 24 hours, though!

...unless our theme park was part of either Universal theme park.

That sounds plausible, given that the long of the premise I came up with behind the theme park was that this was an alternate of World One in which criticism is treated much less like the proverbial haters who are going to hate and more like a necessary part of growing as a writer/artist/person. Then we wouldn't have to be so hidden, and then we'd get famous, and then people would ask for movie rights, and I think I might be fantasizing again, oh no.

-Twistey

What I mean by that is you're doing pretty much the same awkward things that I did as a newbie, and that I still continue to do today, except I'm less bad than I was originally. Key phrase being the "less bad than I was" part, and you will be too, eventually. Hang in there, you'll get better as you learn the flow of things.

With belief in you,
-Twistey

Multiple friends who are into it and some interesting world-building I've already seen. Wow. Now I seriously need to check it out.

-Twistey.

Got distracted with real life stuffs, but I'v been meaning to go back to it sometime.

And good to see so many familiar names.

-Irish

Found the first few chapters available on his website, and I definitely want to read the rest of it - thanks for the recommendation.

-Irish

Out of interest, do you prefer campaign 1 or 2? (I know it's not really a fair comparison at the moment, due to the huge difference in lengths at the moment).

I think I prefer the later storylines from the first campaign, but find the characters of the second to be more interesting.

-Irish

Glad to see you're still about!

—doctorlit, also still about

The biggest issue I have with this thing is how Sam responds to her parents being murdered by Voldemort. First of all, she doesn't even think about trying to stop Voldemort killing them, she just runs. That's not an illogical decision, but it is a pretty heartless one, and surprising, since she claims to have a good relationship with them.

Then, instead of going to the magical authorities, she goes to the Muggle police and whines in the narration about how she can't explain everything to them. ... Why?

I've seen no sign of grief from her yet. She's plenty angry, but she seems to accept the situation well enough, so I dunno if that counts. If the reality of the loss hits her later, she might get a pass on the basis that everyone responds to death differently.

On the plus side, I think the connection that gets her to Hogwarts is fairly solid. I think everyone has a good reason for knowing what they know and not knowing what they don't know. Dumbledore having connections with the heads of other wizarding schools makes sense, and he also has a spy within the Death Eaters, because of course he does. (Calling it now, Harry is Zachary Foote. This seems so transparent I have to wonder if it's not actually a red herring.) And it's established in canon that blood matters, so yoinking Sam across the pond to take advantage of the protection of her family holds up for me.

I was going to question how this works as Harry & co.'s seventh year, but then I realized it was first published in 2006, so there you go. Deathly Hallows hadn't come out yet. That doesn't explain how Sirius Black is still alive, but him coming back from beyond the Veil somehow was a fairly common assumption back in the day.

Unless it really goes off the rails later, I wouldn't PPC this for the simple reason that it's not bad. There are some SPaG errors and I have some questions, but they're not deal-breaking ones for me. Not yet. And if a fic is going to be mission-worthy, it tends to become apparent pretty quickly.

~Neshomeh

This was more what I intended, though edible sound waves sound... well, interesting! X)

The books in question are the WWW Trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer, which you can learn more about by poking around on his website starting here, orrr by reading my collation of spoilers results of the only Journal RP app to ever exist for anyone from this series. ... At least as far as I know.

And Leonard Nimoy is a delight. X3 Thanks!